Circle of
Excellence
(Ring of
Power)
I
am posting this NLP technique presuming that you have already learned and understand
the previous sessions of NLP online training program. One of the major advantages
of NLP is that you can transfer your excellence from one area or field of life
to another, from the past to the present or you can model the excellence of
someone you admire to your life. NLP is a science of modeling excellence. It is
very common among teachers and parents to remark about students that some of
them are excellent in one subject but poor in other. In fact poor performance
is only the present reality of that student. The students can copy their
excellence in a particular subject to a poor one and thus change their
performance in that subject. If you are
excellent in making tea why can’t you be excellent in baking cake! Of course it
is possible if you can copy your excellence from ‘tea making’ to ‘cake baking’.
Our
problem is that we never try to be aware of our actual potentials. We never try
anything other than what we think as very comfortable to us or the one which is
most important for our life existence. One of my friends lost his wife due to
severe diabetics. Around one year she has underwent dialysis twice a week. Their
children were working abroad. Anticipating the dialysis he learned driving at
the age of sixty and bought a car. He resigned from his job. He appointed a
servant to help them. Unfortunately after one year of dialysis and palliative
care she died. Later his big problem was the cooking. He doesn’t know even how to make a cup of tea.
The interesting thing is that the man who learned driving at the age of sixty believes
that he can’t learn cooking! Our belief has an important role in exploring our
potentials or resources.
Remember
the NLP presupposition “People have all the resources they need to succeed and
to achieve their desired outcome”. All our experiences and resources are stored
in the unconscious mind and we can bring them up to the conscious to solve our current
problems. ‘Circle of Excellence’ or ‘Ring of Power’ is one of such NLP technique
which enables us to access these resources. This is an excellent technique to
boost confidence level on occasions like public speaking, making presentations,
facing interview, conducting meetings and training sessions, meeting higher
authorities, stage performances etc. This is a wonderful NLP technique that can
be used by persons of all age. The original script of ‘circle of excellence’ has
been developed by the founders of NLP Richard Bandler and John Grinder. If you have any doubt in understanding or practicing
the steps stipulated below please do not hesitate in contacting me.
Steps to follow in practicing the circle
of excellence:
1.
Identify a situation where your current
or anticipated behaviour not provide you the desired outcome or result. Say for
example public speaking.
2.
Break state (break state means you relax
to your normal state of mind)
3.
Visualize a circle of excellence or a
ring of power on the floor just in front of you. Make the circle of adequate
size to step in, make it colourful and also give an auditory representation
with a humming sound. You shall make the circle powerful one producing different
sensory inputs.
4.
Recall a time you had those resources
required for such performance. (Say, when talking to you spouse and children or
when discussing with your friends.)
5.
Think of three different resources you
had for a wonderful performance.
6.
Elicit one of the resourceful state (thinking
of the event in which you performed well using the resource) and at the peak of
the resourceful state, step into the circle of excellence. Experience as if you
are reliving it now.
7.
Feel it kinesthetically and say an
inspiring word such as ‘wonderful’, ‘excellent’ etc.
8.
Release the elicited feelings into the
circle to make it more powerful and step out of the circle.
9.
Break state
10.
Choose a physical gesture (say, make a
fist) and repeat step 6 and 9 long with the same gesture.
11.
Repeat step 6 to 10 with two or more events
of resourcefulness. Remember that now you have a pool of resources in front of you
which we called as the circle of excellence or the ring of power.
12.
Now step into the circle and re-access
the resources and feel the resourcefulness.
13.
Test the resourcefulness by a trial performance
of the ‘difficult task’ (say, public speaking) and feel the emotions as if it is
happening now.
14.
Collect all resourceful energy and
anchor it on your wrist or forefinger or somewhere else conveniently and step
forward out of the circle.
15.
Think of a future situation. Assume the ‘ring
of power’ in front of you and access the resources using the anchor and perform
as if the event is happening now.
16.
Anchor the resource back again
(stacking) on the same point. Every time you perform repeat the stacking of resources.
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