We've all heard the phrase, "You get more of what you focuson." In the Hawaiian shamanism system, known as Huna, theyteach the principle of blessing. For instance if you want tobecome a more creative individual every time you come acrosssomething that represents 'creativity' you would bless it.Let's say you were walking down the street and you saw anartist painting. You could verbally compliment him or youcould simply mentally bless his creativity with yourintention which could be something like, "This iscreativity, I bless him for it."

By doing this regularly you condition your mind to go in acertain direction: "Look for examples of creativity in theworld that I can bless." An interesting effect of thispractice is that the more you focus on finding positivequalities to bless, the more you discover!

In therapeutic settings clients often come along complainingof behaviours they don't like and want to get rid of. Now ifthe therapist were to have the focus of believing that theclients behaviour was indeed unnecessary he may focus onthis aspect and have the client discover where thisbehaviour started. Discovering why he has chosen to adoptthis behaviour and so on.

But what if the therapist had the focus of, "Every behaviourhas a positive intention behind it." Just with this shift indirection could result in a much more pleasant and usefulchange in the client. By discovering the positive intentionbehind behaviours, adding in new behaviours, choices andflexibility would more likely create a generative,positively focused direction for the clients mind to go in.

This kind of generative change-work tends to create a morepervasive shift in the clients model of the world becausethey have made a change that has added more choice andflexibility and so they think, "ahhh if I can add choices tothis area of my life, why not get more flexible in otherareas?!"

Another interesting point about directions is that it's morepowerful to setup a direction that is flowing, a process,rather than a static change. Think about the following andnotice which statement is more powerful, "I am confident",or "I am becoming more confident."

Because one of the minds natural functions is to go in adirection, change-work becomes more powerful if you set up aprocess as the direction. "I am confident" is static,whereas, "I am becoming more confident" is a process thatre-enforces itself.

Knowing this 'master key' can make your use of changetechnologies, such as the tools of Neuro-LinguisticProgramming (NLP) work all the more effectively.

So as you begin to think about the directions you want yourmind to go in, doesn't it just make sense to use tools thatre-program your mind to *automatically* go in the directionyou want to go in?

Author Bio:

Colin G Smith is a licensed Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and author of 'The NLPToolBox', a personal development book that enables thereader to master any area of their life with amazing speed.Complete information on Colin G Smith's books are availableat his website, including a FREE personal development eBook.http://www.NLPToolBox.com