Episode 33 NLP & The Power of the Mind with Vassil Karamanov

The Holistic Counseling Podcast

Have you heard of neuro-linguistic programming? What is a quick NLP mindset strategy you can use to overcome anxiety? How does one overcome limiting beliefs?

MEET VASSIL KARAMANOV

Vassil is a Transformation Life Coach. His holistic skillset includes being a Master NLP Practitioner, Master TIME Techniques Practitioner, Hypnotherapist, EFT Practitioner, and Meditation Teacher.

Vassil aims to help people break through and experience massive transformations in all areas of life such as Health (physical+emotional+mental), Career, Relationships, and Personal Development.

He specializes in helping people step into massive action, eliminate bad habits and regain control of their power. His approach explores stepping into the higher self and tapping into the flow state.

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IN THIS PODCAST:

• What is NLP?
• Coaching versus therapy
• Thoughts and body

What is NLP?

NLP can simply be defined in two ways; understanding how the brain works, and the science of excellence.

What NLP is is they took some of the most successful therapists, psychotherapists, and hypnotherapists from the last couple of decades and they looked at what worked. What were they doing with their patients that created lasting results? From that field NLP was born, neuro-linguistic programming. (Vassil Karamanov)

NLP helps people deal with life’s opportunities and challenges. The strategies taught in NLP can be used in treating mental health issues because it focuses on what causes the problems that people deal with, and what is obstructing their thought processes.

The tools provided by NLP help people move away from their ego and allow them to adopt other perspectives to their life which helps them to approach their problems in different, more constructive ways.

Coaching versus therapy

Therapy requires many years of schooling, and it works under strict sets of regulations and laws, whereas coaching is more open-ended, and not bound to the same level of regulation.

With coaching, you still need to be aware of what is beneficial for the client. If the client is dealing with depression and anxiety, coaching may not help, and they need to be referred out to a therapist.

Clients can get the most out of coaching if their goals are to overcome their fears, change their life, and start building productive and healthy habits. Therapy and coaching can work together: coaching can elevate the understandings achieved in therapy.

Thoughts and body

Research has shown that negative thoughts create negative responses in the body. A negative thought is processed for seven seconds in the brain before the body releases hormones, such as cortisol, in response to the stress-inducing idea.

In this state, we are not our best, and we cannot perform and live our lives in ways that allow us to grow and mature.

Guilt, sadness, or jealousy, those are emotions that we can’t create … we can’t be our best selves or be in a flow state or bring our best personality [when we feel them]. No, it brings out the worst personalities, and that is why [negative thoughts] are important to [heal] because they can be slowing you down your whole life. (Vassil Karamanov)

Your mind may hold onto limiting beliefs because it is trying to protect you from the hurt you may have experienced in the past. Releasing them is the key to helping you move forward.

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