Diana,

What? Sleep more? Are you kidding! I do about three or four hours a day now - and even that is far too much. There are other ways you know. You can use your mind at higher rates while resting at the same time. Also, you can speed up your brain while at the same time slowing down your body. There is a difference. Just because one can think faster doesn't mean one has to burn out faster. Change your belief about this, and you will also change your experience.

Here, try it on. First think of something that you absolutely believe. Is the sun going to come up tomorrow? Do you need air to stay alive? Look at, or pretend to look at these absolute beliefs. Pay attention to the location where you see, or pretend to see this representation. Now, remembering where you have that absolute belief, let's elicit another belief. This time I want you to think of something that could or could not be. What are you going to have for lunch next year on the second Tuesday of the third month? Could be this, or that, or maybe nothing at all?

Now, in the location where you keep that "could be" belief, I want you to build, or pretend to build the possibility that you could think as fast as you want to, can time distort at will, all while your body stays calm and relaxed. So much so, that you could, in this fantasy, allow your body to be even more relaxed while your perception continues speeding up on the inside. This way, you can fantasize about having the experience of your body slowing down as your body slows down as well, giving you even more of an edge.

Now, after having built, or pretended to have built this new possibility, I want you to look, or pretend to look at that absolute belief. Do you need air to stay alive? Is the sun going to come up tomorrow? And as you do, I also want you to take that new possibility, that it is possible to for you to speed up your thinking while being fully relaxed, and push it, or pretend to push it off in the distance, way in the distance. And I don't want you to bring it back in until you are ready to bring it into the location where you keep your absolute belief. And I want you to do it very, very quickly. Do it three times as fast as you possibly can do it.

You see, beliefs are not a part of the physical reality, they are under our control. You can choose to believe whatever you want to believe. What I find to be the problem with people's capabilities is in what they were choosing to believe. As we go through life we find ourselves believing one thing. However, and in time, some of the things we believed often change. We find ourselves believing something else. And if you were to check with your own personal history, you would find many examples of having believed one thing, only to later change you mind. Now, since this is something we do anyway, changing our beliefs that is, why not change them deliberately? This way we can build in whatever we want to build in.

When I decide I want to pace a particular person, I don't! Instead I completely adopt that person's belief system. I fully and quickly try on that person's model of the world. It's called instant rapport. I congruently believe that I can, and my experiences bear this out for me, time and time again. As far as I am concerned, there is no reality, we make it up as we go along. Is that a true statement? I really don't know, but when I chose to believe it, I can do things that most people believe can't be done. Since they already believe that it can't be done they don't try anything new. Me, I start out by believing that what I want to do has already been done, it's just a matter of figuring out how.

As you can see, you can change beliefs at will, but always leave a way out. I have tried on a reality or two in my day that seemed like a good idea at first, but when I got there -- arggggggg. So I fire off the anchor and get out. When I first decided to become immersed in NLP, I started off by building in an entire new belief system. I built in a complete new childhood where my grandparents were the top NLP trainers the world ever knew. And I brought that reality through my parents and right into me. I was born into NLP. I contextualized this reality so that I could use it as a tool. I believed it totally while in that context.

If you stop now and think about some of the things you have chosen to believe - did you really choose? Or did you? Think about it. How many beliefs could you change or update, that after having changed them you can find more choices for yourself? Before learning, before thinking about what you want to learn, before you even think about learning at all, build in a new belief. I built one in that says that I can learn to do anything, and that I can learn how quickly and easily. And that learning is fun, and pleasantly exciting. And the more I learn the quicker I use my brain, and the quicker I use my brain the more relaxed life becomes.

Now, after having built in this new belief, think about what you want to learn, what you want to experience. You may find that building in believing that you can and will be able to learn anything, that learning is fun, you will choose differently what it is you are going to learn next. That your choices, the possibilities that exist for you, well, they seem to continue opening up. It works quite the opposite than you had thought. Less choices, more burn-out. More choices, faster thinking and you can experience more and more ease and relaxation. And when it all drops unconscious, you will find yourself making better choices, enjoying things even more, and always having another way to do anything.

And, since we are building in new beliefs, don't you think it would be a good idea to build in a belief that you can always find a way to become healthier while feeling stronger with every breath you take. Thinking about how many different ways you can, and will, be able to find so many choices that lead toward the best this life has to offer. And if you find that life isn't offering what your dreams are made of, change life. Have fun, better orgasms, closer relationships, greater sensory acuity, behaviors that work. And when you find something isn't working - do something else. Make it fun. Learn from children the kind of delight that knows nothing of self seriousness. Laugh at yourself, don't wait for a reason, do it now - and do it deliberately.

I always say, "If you make what you are doing too important, you are forgetting what is important." Put things in perspective. Take anything other than the best feelings you can have and bring those representations down to size. Never mind - forget it. However if, in the future, you feel that you really need to blow things out of proportion look at your own worth as a human being. Make these pictures bigger and brighter, bring them closer - wrap them around you now, and look at your own future. It's not about what you do, what you learn, what you have, it's about something so much more -- it's about you! You're worth the very best future anyone could have, or be having, even now. Because -- it's kinda like being -- and you are. And when I look off into the universe I can see no ending in sight. Only one more wonderment after another. More stars, more planets, with more being born all of the time. I see sheer and absolute wonderment, and to think I, like you, am a part of it all.

Kind of mind blowing, and a good idea at that. So many different people stopping, giving up. Thinking that they have a clue, that we have figured anything out. How could we? No way! The future truly is ------ undiscovered country!

I guess I got a bit carried away here, but I don't really care. I would rather be carried away on my own passion, than settle for anything. There is never a need to settle into anything other than one's absolute best. I know that I am worth that much - what about you? Do think about it.

It doesn't matter where you have been, what you have already done. The future is still wide open. And you can go into it any way you choose. Take any five of the best feelings you have ever had and realize that this is only the beginning of how good you can feel. Turn up those good feelings, and when anybody asks how you are doing, start here, and let it build. Put a smile on your own face, let it become contagious. Not only externally. Make a choice, build in a new belief, or two, or three -- go for it!!!

Me, I am having a party - and it's called life! And I am not about to spend any more than three or four hours a day sleeping it away. Besides, I believe that that is all that I need, and so too must my body, as I am in no way lacking in energy. In fact I have plenty in reserve! Want to buy some?

Be Well

Carmine Baffa