“Games for Mastering Fear”

Training Content Introductory Comments How to use the manual The Training Game – opening frames Benefits of course How do you play the game of fear.

Step #1 – Game Recognition Kinds of internal games we play Game detection The Neuro-Semantics of fear The games of fear Modeling secrets of those who face fear with courage How to play Frame Games Worksheets Frame Game Questions

Step #2 Developing the Power to Play Introduction to Meta-States The Aim Game Ownership of Power Zone The Power of “yes” and “no”

Step #3 Slaying the Fear Dragon Retiring Old Movies Game “Emotions are just Signals” Acceptance Game Gloriously Fallible Game Dragon Slaying Game Meta-Stating Negative Emotions The Permission Game

Step #4 Committed to Playing the New Games Mind-to-Muscle Game The Swish Game Meta-Stating Courage The “Excuse Blow-Out Game” The Miracle Game The Drop Down Through Game →

Step #4 Committed to Playing the New Games Foregrounding Resources Meta-Stating Semantic Fears The Totally Congruent Game The “Bounce Back” Game

Are your ready for a new game? Do you run scared in life? Does fear, anxiety, apprehension, and dread dominate your life? Do you take far too much counsel of fear? Would you like to run a new game and master your fears? Page 6

How to Use this Manual. 1.Course is not for everyone. 2.For those willing to do whatever it takes to address their fears. 3.“It will work if you work it!” Page 7

Working it means ― Willingness to follow the processes and play the games. Trust the process. Entering with an open mind. Page 7

Working it means ― Suspending doubts and worries. Willingness to create new mental maps. Putting off the testing and questioning until the end. Page 7

Structural Approach ― This means this study is not about “toughing it out”, etc. It is not about “facing down” the emotion. It is about learning a new “game plan.” Page 7

Structural Approach ― This course is about changing the “mental software” that runs the program of fear(s). This makes the approach gentle and easy. Page 7

NLP and Neuro- Semantics are all about you choosing which thought you want to run and dominate your mind- body system. Page 8

Some Questions Who will you become as you become oriented by faith, hope and vision rather than by fear? Page 8

Some Questions What will be the three most critical “fears” that you want to completely master through this study? Write them down for future measurement as to strength. Page 8

Some Questions How will mastering those fears affect your life? How will they affect your professional, personal and private life? Page 8

Some Questions How will that be valuable to you? What will change in your life? Page 8

Some Questions When you think about the “you” for whom the old fears are no longer a problem, what are the most exciting and significant facets of that new you? Page 8

Some Questions Who will be most affected in your life by this mastering of these fears? When you fully step into the place where you have mastered the fears, what frame of mind will you be in? Page 8

The Training Game 1. Have lots of fun as you develop your expertise. 2. No Shame/No Blame. The person is never the problem. The frame is always the problem. Page 9

The Training Game 3. The Frame is the problem. Inability to act on knowledge. Continuance of the same problems year after year. Feeling controlled. Page 10-11

The Training Game 3. The Frame is the problem. Attempted Solutions make the “Problem” worse. Going around in circles. Diminishing returns. Page 10

The Training Game 4. It’s all about Detection and Re-Designing of New Frames. This training is about learning how to say “No” to un-useful frames. And how to say “Yes” to mind games we choose. Page 10

Benefits of this Course Discovery of the secrets for effectively handling Your emotions, especially your fears. Learn not to spot and stop irrational fearing. Eliminate needlessly amplifying fear. Page 11

Benefits of the Course ― Play new emotional games: faith, courage, hope, etc. Access the higher levels of your mind. Develop this kind of courage. How to turn on fear antidotes: Faith, Trust, Courage, etc. Page 11

How do you Play the Game of Fear? As an emotion, fear is your friend. So, welcome it, embrace it. Reasonable and appropriate fear gives you vital information. Page 13

Fear of Fear ― The Enemy As an emotion, fear recognizes danger. Fear of fear ― that’s our enemy. When we fear our thoughts, that is what causes trouble. Page 13

Fear of Fear ― The Enemy We when fear some event “out there” we reference the world. When we fear our thoughts, feelings, states, beliefs, etc we reference ourselves. Page 13

Image: picture, sounds, feelings, smells & taste Word Meanings Meta Word Meanings Meta-Meta Words Meta-meta-meta words. 1 st Level of Abstraction 2 nd Level of Abstraction Primary Level Word Meanings about 1st 3 rd Level of Abstraction Meta-Level Words about 2nd 4 th Level of Abstraction Meta- Meta-Level Words about 3rd 5 th Level of Abstraction Words Meta- States META-STATESMETA-STATES

Event in external world that triggered fear. Re-present on the screen of the mind. (VAKOG) I am afraid of that! I am afraid of my about Repetitive Meta-Level thinking creates Meta- States that act as mental filters. This thinking creates a filter of paranoia through which the person experiences his or her world. Fear will “attract” more fear to feed it. Primary LevelPrimary Level Meta- Level PARINOIA FILTERPARINOIA FILTER Structure of Paranoia The “Frames”

Psychic Energy When we fear our thoughts, we turn our psychic energy against ourselves. Whatever frame of reference/or frame of mind you develop and bring to your emotional experience of “fear,” determines the game you play. Page 13

Whatever Game you play in life around fear comes from and reflects on some Frame that you’ve accepted, bought into, or been sold. Together, frame and game makes up the Frame Games that you play. Page 13

“Flush Out” the Frame Throughout the training we will be detecting our relationship to fear as both an emotion and a concept. This enables flushing out the Frame Games that we play. From there we can choose new Frame Games. Page 14

The “Good News” The good news is that whatever relationship you have developed to fear, you have learned it. That means, you can unlearn it. Page 14

“The Map is not the Territory.” Our way of relating to fear has developed from how we have mapped it perceptually. “It’s just a map; it’s not real; it’s not the territory.” Page 14

Internal Reality Is Entirely – “Map Governed” Once you “map it” it becomes your “internal reality.” Whatever you map governs your body and “seems” real. But it is a “constructed” reality. It therefore can be “re- constructed.” Page 14

Your “Power” - Constructed If you “think” the outside world “controls” your inner world, you give up your “power.” Once you fully realize that fear is “internal” and “constructed,” you can re-construct it. Page 14