Not so few years back, I was helping, as a coach for a little league team. They were called the "Red Devils". The head coach for this team was the mothers of two of the young players. I don't know who was more into the game, the two boys, or their mother. Well, anyway, at the time, I was playing with different forms of deep trance identification, or the more , or less, deep trance by product, "circles of excellence", when I decided to use this tool as a means of instructing the boys on this team.

So, one day, and it only took one day, I gathered all of the players, and setting the frame, I asked each of the players to recognize internally who was the best Baseball player, the person who they thought they would most like to learn from.

Then I had each of them make an imaginary circle on the grass in front of them, placing in that circle, a life sized, vivid rich focused moving image of that imaginary player actually making a certain play.

Then, I set it up so that each boy in turn would be able to fully leave their own world behind, as they stepped completely into that moving image of the imaginary player. Later, after each boy had had his turn in his perspective circle, I had each boy again in turn, update all past memories of having played ball to include the new skills and abilities they had taken from the circle exercise. Further, I had each boy in turn bring all of these changes into the future, making certain that I respected context in this process.

The result were. The team went undefeated in regular season, in special season, and nationally. I say again, undefeated!! When the press got a hold of this, they, in there insightful wisdom, condemned the boys for not being fair and letting other teams win from time to time. They also said that the players of the red devils were far to cocky. And they said this because many of the kids, taking the tool that I had taught them, learned how to hit a ball well with either the right, or the left hand. The next year, the boys got broken up into different teams, and me, well I had had my experience in little league.

Now, I am not going to fool you here. Even though the results I received were spectacular, there is always more than meets the paragraph---BECAUSE...

Part of doing this well had to do with calibration, checking to see if my instructions were being carried out to the letter. Rapport, gaining a level of trust with each boy, and teaching them to be able to trust themselves well enough to know that if they left their own realities behind, while stepping in the one in the circle, they would be able to return. I didn't just have them step into the circle, I had them full become who was in that circle until they experienced certain amnesia for who they really were. Then I had them step out using an anchor I had set that ensured a safe return to who they were at the time. Then later, when I had them update both the past and the future, I used a different anchor I had set while they were still in the circle.

The level of sensory acuity necessary for being able to make the kinds of distinctions, both consciously and unconsciously, that allowed me to track accurately the calibration I had set up for these boys, is something that took me some time to learn. And, after having developed this acuity, I realized that I could have just used a circle of excellence to develop it. But, even if I had, I wouldn't have gotten what I have now, because I would not have know what to go after in the first place. There is always more to what is available than we are aware of that is available, and as we do become aware of more, there is still more yet to become aware of.  So if you are going to play with this idea of circles, why not start of by modeling something you know you cant learn how to do? Then go out and do it.

The above story is true, archives of the newspaper articles about the Red Devils can found in Florida libraries. Either in the Fort Lauderdale sun sentinel, or the fort Lauderdale news.

Stay well

Carmine