Lynn, your question appears quite often in the NLP and TLT trainings. so, i will answer it, however, please ALWAYS keep in mind that your NLP, TLT, NLP Coaching and Hypnosis trainings MUST BE KEPT SEPARATE OF ALL SPIRITUAL MATTERS. Do not muddle the issues. If you discuss anything connected to spirituality in your NLP or TLT training, your students will be confused and think that NLP has to do with spirituality, which may have them renounce NLP and not learn it anymore. it is not fancy to learn how to think – they wrongly believe that meditation (or mindfulness as it is fancily called today) is the way you go, and without CRITICAL thinking, meditation can make you more UNconscious.
The link that is missing for most people is that NLP is the tool to get in control 1. of the conscious mind 2., the unconscious mind, 3. the connection and relationship between the two, and then 4. the connection with the Higher Self. Th HS provides the spiritual matter, the CM is the builder and the physical concrete results are the consequence. now, what are most people building? How are their lives? That’s the starting question we always begin with.
Now, what follows is for your understanding only and not to teach your students, because if you do, you’ll mingle NLP with spirituality which will make it unusable for your students.
No disrespect intended, but i haven’t found anywhere in the public arena, and i have more than 20 years of research and hard labor put into this (there is a lot of this in the very inner circle of secret societies) a real HOW to communicate and live the Higher Self purpose CONSCIOUSLY. there are npo teachings about this. That’s why we put this in the APEP training. It is not a process that happens overnight regardless of what you hear when people say when they talk about “i talked last night with my HS and my HS told me that the stock-market will go down….” Yeah! Sure! Firstly the HS does not “talk” in concepts. But OK! That’s another story. So, there is confusion and misconception about the HS. one more reason not to touch this subject in any of your NLP and TLT trainings.
In order to even understand correctly what i just explained to you, one has to open up a VL 7 type thinking which happens for many people after the MP, if you teach it correctly. See here connection with NLP? Here is why: it is paradoxical. The paradox: You cannot NOT live anything but the HS direction IF you have a connection with your HS. that’s the good news. However, the CM has the right to go astray, and direct the UM through wrong thinking (in other words NON-critical thinking, and wrong beliefs decisions, negative emotions, etc). I said over and over again in many of my articles i published during time, and you may have heard me say this also in the training – negative emotions BIND ONE TO EARTH. Now, what is the frequency that we might think is connected to the HS? Gross, matter-like, or different? Think of NE, as being a lower frequency, more connected to matter, and positive emotions more higher frequency on the scale of matter to spirit. So TLT, just by allowing the release of NE , allows one’s consciousness to operate in another frequency. Does that mean that one is already operating in the HS range? No, not at all, but without this step, there is no chance of that happening.
Back to our paradox – we used to say that everybody was always connected to the HS, whether they were aware of this connection or not. It is not true nowadays, with the change in the whole frequency environment due to WiFI, ELF, EMF, etc. There are people who are disconnected or completely unaware of their connection, but this is another topic which i am not going to discuss here as it is part of APEP.
Can they be helped to reconnect? Yes! Is this part and parcel of NLP, and TLT? Not directly, therefore we do not talk about it in the trainings.
So, indirectly, by teaching your students how to think critically (which they DO NOT when they come in your training) and how to become aware (consciousness = awareness, remember?) as well as by releasing what keeps them stuck to lower frequency, your students DO develop their consciousness even if they are unaware of the process.
Now spirituality is whatever one defines it to be according to the values level where one’s consciousness is situated.
In VL 2, spirituality is shamanic practices and shamanic magic. In VL 3 and 4 is whatever god or gods one believes in according to organized religion, or even some New Age system, fraternity, or secret or not so secret society one belongs to. In VL 5 spirituality is mostly the “god of science” as it is a very materialistic VL. Here the “scientists” would like to employ advanced physics to change the construction of the physical reality. They are trying to employ the thinking of VL 7, to create connections between parallel dimensions, etc., etc. by physics alone. adn gtbey are realtively successful. But something is ALWAYS missing. Human consciousness which includes FREE WILL. From VL 6, 7 and 8 perspective things begin to get more onto the personal consciousness as influencer in the creation of reality, then group consciousness which influences reality, and then we get to world humanity as a whole participation in the creation of future reality or possible realities. Now, if you think of it this way you can understand better the process that Tad and I have put online several years ago which if enough people do it, it will create just that! it is here: https://www.nlpcoaching.com/change-the-future/
So when someone asks me this question, i say, let’s not worry now about consciousness, and about spirituality, is whatever you define it to be for YOU. And that would be the extent of the conversation i have about spirituality, until i get to Master Practitioner and if i get lots of questions and if i have time, i do the talk about APEP which i label very carefully as being outside of the NLP. even there i do n ot define spirituality for them it is an individual thing.