Individuals,
Groups & Workshops
Are you ready for more aliveness and life satisfaction?
Change is available in the NOW with Ana Perez
Certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner
Ana
Perez,
MA, NLP, NFT, IMF
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
& Energy Work
1207
De la Vina
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-284-4330
~ anasolimar8@yahoo.com
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Want
to:
-
Stop smoking?*
- Lose
weight?
- Increase
performance?
- Overcome
debilitating anxiety, fears, phobia, depression?
- Stop
nail biting?
- Expand
your consciousness?
NLP is an exceptional technology that can make it happen.
NLP techniques have been used widely for a myriad of issues to
rapidly and gracefully: stop unwanted behaviors and patterns,
overcome trauma, disasters, shame and guilt, grief, co-dependency
or unhealthy attachments to others, improve communication, respond
well to criticism, become more assertive, parent better, resolve
internal conflict, promote self worth, increase self-esteem and
appreciation of others, get motivated, learn effective decision
making strategies, learn to spell, overcome learning disabilities,
improve performance in sports, boost the immune system to improve
physical or medical issues, improve quality of life and much more.
What
is NLP?
NLP
is many things and it is not therapy. It is a learning system
that can be used for change based on certain understandings of
the way humans think, process information and behave. The following
is a breakdown of the meaning of the term Neuro-Linguistic Programming:
Nuero-
Nervous system processes experiences through the 5 senses.
Linguistic- Verbal and non-verbal communication system
that codes, orders and assigns meaning to these impulses.
Programming- Ability to respond in a certain way due to
the meaning attached to these impulses.
NLP bases its techniques on understandings of how the human brain
works and the structure used by certain people to achieve exceptional
results. Richard Bandler, one of the co-developers of NLP, observed
accomplished therapists like Milton Erickson, Virginia Satir and
Fritz Perls, as well as famous athletes and others. He made maps
of the way these people processed information to arrive at such
outstanding results. Bandler calibrated these individuals' representational
systems (gathered sensory based information in the form of visual,
auditory, kinesthetic, gustatory and olfactory cues) that revealed
the way they processed information to generate the exceptional
responses. He used this information to create models of excellence
and found that it was possible to teach others how to be more
resourceful as well. This area of NLP is called modeling, and
since its inception in 1970 continues to be an important area
in NLP involved in the pursuit of high human achievement.
NLP also adheres to certain presuppositions (useful beliefs).
One of these is that we all have the ability to learn how to do
anything someone else can do well by applying the same structure
they use. In essence, we can re-program the way we think, create
a new map of reality and change if we want. For instance, if you
would like to get rid of a phobia, by following certain visual
and other simple steps, you may resolve your phobia without going
through the agony of talking about it that often results in years
of therapy. Why? Because NLP concerns itself with helping you
add choices to your ways of responding to fear and to do this
it pays attention to how you process information more than your
actual experience. By changing the underlying structure of your
map of reality you can then arrive at a more satisfying response.
However, people are not robots and talking about our issues to
a certain extent may be a necessary component for feeling heard,
understood and comforted. It is very important that you feel safe
and at ease with your NLP Practitioner.
How
does NLP work?
Simply
put, by altering the meaning you give to experience, patterns
and behaviors change.
If
we could but gain access
our life would forever be changed.
Used
by permission of the artist, Michael Earney. www.earneyworks.com
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You
can say that NLP works by changing our relationship to issues
or people and this is done by transforming the way we see the
world, our map of reality. Traumas, difficult life experiences
or other conditioning can lead us to form erroneous beliefs about
ourselves and the world. These ideas become frozen in time within
our nervous system in the form of blocked energy and are often
set off by triggers in the present. You may say that we are conditioned
to respond in certain ways. By re-programming the brain through
certain simple exercises, many are able to replace these conditioned
responses with more life affirming or desired behaviors. In the
case of cigarette smoking, let's say that at a certain point in
your life you associated smoking with some sort of pleasure. You
may then believe unconsciously that this is the only way to derive
that satisfaction, thereby smoking every time you want to have
that experience. By exploring options and adding choices through
the NLP exercises you can arrive at alternatives to smoking that
are as or more compelling than a cigarette. Often, the release
of energy that accompanies the deep felt realization that you
now have other choices besides smoking to get your needs met will
release you of the need to smoke.
What does a session of NLP look like?
An
NLP practitioner is trained to help you assess what change it
is that you want by using certain sensory based information received
from you. He will then calibrate the structure you use to generate
the unwanted response or behavior. In a nutshell, by following
certain steps that may involve such activities as playing with
or rearranging mental images and thoughts in your head, moving
your arms or positioning your body, a change in the structure
of perception is achieved, resulting in a more desirable behavior.
The practitioner will calibrate to make sure that the new structure
is now in place. You will then be asked to visualize situations
in the future where you want to respond in the desired way to
better ensure that you will keep the change.
*For a fun self-help video demonstrating at a rapid speed the
use of the Switch Pattern, one of the NLP techniques used to "cure"
smoking, search for "How to Stop Smoking with NLP" in
videojug.com.
About
Ana's style of work:
My
clients have described me as empathetic and caring. My personal
approach is a personal blend of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP) techniques and my experience and knowledge
in psychology and healing methods to promote accelerated change.
I came about this phenomenal system of thought and its applications
called NLP back in the eighties by way of a colleague when I was
a substance abuse counselor in New Mexico. He introduced me to
the inspirational book Frogs
into Princes by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, the co-developers.
Excited, I decided to undergo therapy with an NLP practitioner
and was impressed with the ease and speed I was able to transform
certain issues and behaviors; some changes came in one session.
The experience literally changed my life and I became a practitioner
in 1989. I then utilized one of the exercises in a forty minute
session to help this same colleague stop smoking. To this day,
he is smoke free! Although NLP is a powerful technology that can
lead to rapid change, please bear in mind that because there are
many factors involved in the change process and everyone is an
individual, it is impossible to guarantee the same results for
all. I can tell you that I continue to use the philosophy and
tools of NLP to personally become a more resourceful person, and
have helped many people over the years do the same. I derive tremendous
pleasure in assisting others in overcoming obstacles to greater
personal excellence and life satisfaction. I have a deep respect
for every individual and their beliefs, as well as a sincere dedication
to facilitating change that strives to honor every person and
our world.
I
believe that the possibility for personal evolution is inherent
in all beings. We have untold capacities waiting to be tapped.
However, we all experience times when we feel stuck and can't
seem to easily find a solution. Or we may sense that there is
more to life and we want to go beyond the limit of our world view.
This is the time to reach out to a skilled professional who can
facilitate the access to your personal hidden resources. We all
need each other and are in the same boat!
Ana's
Background:
Ana has been in the healing profession since 1985 and
has a wide range of education, experience and expertise
in different approaches. She became a certified NLP practitioner
in 1989 through NLP of Colorado with Steve
and Connirae Andreas and studied with practitioner
and author, Nelson Zinc of New Mexico. She holds two Master's
Degrees of which one is in Counseling Psychology. In addition,
Ana is a certified practitioner of an energy based healing
procedure, Noetic Field Therapy (NFT). She is a native
of Cuba and speaks Spanish fluently. A fairly newcomer
to Santa Barbara, Ana was in private practice as a licensed
psychotherapist in Santa Fe, New Mexico before relocating.
At the moment, Ana also works at CALM as an MFT Intern
in child abuse and is the Coordinator of the Domestic
Violence Program. Ana is expecting to become a licensed
Marriage & Family Therapist in the state of California
sometime this year. In addition, Ana is a perpetual student
of esoteric teachings and practices meditation. She also
has a keen interest in knowledge that is based on experience.
She hopes to write a self-help book soon.
Every
moment is a fresh opportunity to revitalize.
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Energy
Work
UNFOLD
THE LIGHT WITHIN
Revitalize Your Relationship to Self and Others
Experiential process Working With Individuals, Groups and Workshops
Ana
Perez ~ 805-284-4330
I practice a form of energy work called Noetic
Field Therapy (NFT) balancing that involves dialog to
facilitate transformation of issues, patterns and behaviors. Readiness
to change is important to the outcome level. I either work individually
or in groups and workshops.
Recipients
usually report an experience of inner expansion, mental clarity
and peace, as well as more of a sense of unity with others vs.
separateness. We are multidimensional beings with physical, emotional
and psycho-spiritual bodies that interweave with each other to
form the physical person that we see. A balancing can prevent
illness because the imbalances first appear in the energy field
before manifesting in the physical body.
During
the procedure, a sacred space is created and the chakras (energy
centers in the body) are balanced on the physical and emotional
levels. Issues and patterns that are ready to be transformed generally
surface. Then with the help of a specialized dialog the psycho-spiritual
level is balanced. This process often allows the release of the
issues and patterns that were crystallized in specific parts of
the body in the form of blocked energy. The result is a balanced
energy field or aura. More energy can then become available to
you.
You
may consider this work as a karmic clearing for patterns that
you see repeated over and over again in your life. You may let
go of unhealthy attachments, debilitating fears and judgments
you carry about yourself. Depending on the issues cleared, you
may find that you respond calmer or differently when before you
became very angry, you are more forgiving of yourself and therefore
others, or you respond better to criticism when before you became
defensive. Also, you may find that you feel more connected to
others and less alone or lonely, or you may feel more grounded
and connected to yourself and source.
The
individual NFT balancing session generally takes about one hour
and fifteen minutes to one and a half hours. Three session are
recommended consecutively with at least two weeks in between.
Tune ups can be done on the average of once a year or as needed
depending on new issues needing clearing.
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