Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

This is an accelerated learning format which expands and refines the "Creating a New Part" process that appeared in the book, "Reframing And The Transformation Of Meaning." by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. Interestingly enough, this is for both learning new abilities and developing personal resources. I really don't know what the limitations are.

The Creating Abilities format is very goal oriented. It requires that you start with a desired end result in mind. However, it's ok if you are starting from something you don't want, just turn it around with the question, "What you do want to be able to do in that situation?" You might also think of "What would be a new way of being in the world that would make the old habit from the past unnecessary?"

This process is broader, and more impactful than learning new behaviors, it's about developing capability. Are you capable of achieving a particular result? Ultimately, the answer in most cases is "Yes!" The standard to apply in order to determine if you are capable of something is not necessarily whether or not you are already getting the result. Whether you are already generating a result is not an accurate nor fair way to determine the extent of immediate competencies. That is to say the realm of things that if you were to invest a little energy into mental preparation you could rapidly become competent at. This format, when used will actually expand the range of things you can do.

Competence, or even excellence, starts with being directed toward some type of defined end result. In order to appreciate competence it must, ultimately, be recognizable by the results it produces.

If competence can not be demonstrated it raises the question of whether the person claiming a particular ability is deluding themselves and others. Therefore, this process builds in several checks to help ensure we are building actual competence.

Since the real world happens everyday we might as well go ahead and be at our best all of the time. That's an ability, you know. The ability to be at your best all time, no matter what is going on is POWERFUL. You have a number of different kinds of bests - such as your best talents, your best attitudes, your best enthusiasm, your best confidence, your best compassion, your best leadership, your best focus, etc.

Keep in mind that this procedure, while sometimes astonishing, will not gloss over ignorance. If somebody knows very little about flying, and the only method they use to learn is this format...I would not want to fly with them. Sometimes there are pieces of information, and real world experience that you absolutely have to have in order to be efective at getting a particular result. This process will not usually magically provide them.

This is generative process, a powerful way of evolving yourself into more of who you want to be.

At this point, before we actually get into the specifcs of rapidly developing skills, abilities, and resources I'd like you to make a list of competencies, abilities and resources you would like to develop, and results you'd like to be able to produce. It can be small things like the ability to consistenly floss your teeth after every meal. It might be large things like being able to easily sell massive amounts of a particular product. You get to choose.

Competencies I want to develop ...............

Things I want to be even more competent at (better at) .........

Resources I would like to further develop.....

The Creating Human Ability Format

1. What ability or personal resource would you like to develop even more fully? We all have some level of ability and resourcefulness at just about everything - even it's negligible. It helps to start by realizing that you already have some of the ability you want,

It is very important with this process for you to honor and acknowledge all internal objections, resistance, doubts, fears, hesitations, and so forth.

1a What is the goal that you would like to achieve by developing this ability? What is the purpose of achieving the goal? What will that do for you?

1b. In addition to your goals, how else will you benefit by having this ability? Make a list of benefits. What will you gain? How will your life be better?

2. What do you already know about how to do this? What are the component pieces of the ability? What are the sub components? What are the sub - sub components?

2a Have you ever done this, or anything similar? Relive, and step inside of each memory. What did you see, hear, feel, taste, smell? What were you aware of internally, and externally? Step inside of each experience and access all aspects of doing X or parts of X. Go through each memory visually, auditorily, and kinesthetically (feelings).

2b How will you know that you have this ability? What will you see, hear, and feel?

2c Who do you know that has this ability? In your mind, watch and listen to them do it. What do you already know about how they do it?

2d Imagine stepping fully into your role model while they are demonstrating the ability. Pretend that you can look out of their eyes, hear through their ears, feel the way their body moves from the inside, and think their thoughts. What do you learn from this experience?

3. If you could already (substitute name of ability here) what would you look like? What would you sound like? Ask this of yourself in the form, "If I could already X, what would I look like?" Or, "What would I look like if I could already X?" For instance, if you are working on public speaking your question could be, "If I could already speak well to groups of people, what would I look like?"

3a Imagine that 6 months to one year have gone by. Pretend, just for a moment, that you are now 1 year in the future. During the last year you have mastered this ability, and have effectively and easily used this ability numerous times, on multiple occasions. See the you in front of you that has mastered this. Watch her/him actually performing the ability. Notice the way this future you moves, breathes, talks, walks, thinks, and gestures.

3b Watch yourself on a movie screen as you demonstrate this ability fully. Create a detailed set of images of how you would behave if you were actually demonstrating whatever you will have to do to achieve the goal of the ability.

3c. When you see a whole sequence that you are satisfied with have step into the movie of yourself demonstrating your new ability. Go through the whole sequence again from the inside, feeling what it is like to do these behaviors. Notice what you see, hear, feel and how you enjoy the experience.

3d. Once you reach the end of the movie consider - Is anything missing? Do I need anything else to really know I can do this?

3e. Recycle to step 3, modifying your question to also add in the missing ingredient. For instance, if the ability is public speaking, and you noticed in step 3d that you were missing self confidence, and being comfortable, your new question for step 3 might be "If I could already comfortably and confidently speak well to groups of people, what would I look like?"

Then, continue through the process of steps 3a - 3e as many times as needed until you feel certain that you can do it.

4. If you could already do this exceptionally well, what feelings, and states of mind would you have while doing this? Enjoyment, creativity, fun, alertness, relaxation, humor, certainty, self esteem, pride, unstoppability, boldness, love, enthusiasm, etc.?? Make a list - what set of feelings if you had them while you were doing X, would make it easy?

Create a "stacked" anchor. An anchor is a trigger or stimulus that functions as an on switch for a certain feeling state, or set of feeling states. That is you will create a certain phrase and gesture that will trigger all of these powerful, positive emotions to be instantly available to you at any time in the future.

4a. Define the anchor. Think of an unusual way you could inconspicuously uniquely touch yourself, or a unique gesture that you will use as your anchor.

4b. Create a short word or phrase that you will say to yourself in your mind as you "fire" off your anchor.

4c. One by one, take each feeling on your list and go through the following steps 4d through keeping the anchor (gesture / touch and word or phrase) the same for all of them.

4d. Access strongly the first resource state on your list. There are 3 ways to access your resources:

1. Put yourself into the kind of physiology or way of using your body that you would have if you were in the state right now. How would you breathe if you were strongly feeling state ? What kind of expression would you have on your face? How would you sit or stand? How much tension or relaxation would you have? How would you gesture and move? Take on this physiology right now.

2. What could you feel X about right now? What could you be X'd about, if there were a lot of things you feel this way about, what could you feel this about if you wanted to feel this positive feeling now? What about that makes you feel X? Why do you feel X'd about that? How does that make you feel?

What else could you feel X about? What about that makes you feel X? Why do you feel X'd about that? How does that make you feel?

3. Remember a time when you felt this way. You can also imagine a time in the future when you would feel that way. Step into this experience as if it's happening now. Notice what you are picturing, and focusing on. What are you saying to yourself? What tone of voice are you using? How does your body feel?

4e Using one or more of the above methods of accessing a state of mind, get into this state of mind as strongly as you can. The more you go into the state the easier it gets to go even more fully into the state.

As you are strongly feeling this resource make your anchor gesture, and say your anchor phrase (use the same tonality each time).

Repeat steps 4d and 4e a few times. Get strongly into the state, and while you are fully experiencing the resource state make your anchor gesture and say your trigger word or phrase. Repeat this until the gesture and trigger word start to feel like they are now linked. Almost as you can't even say the phrase and make the gesture without feeling the resource state.

4f. Test the trigger. Look around you, think of something else for a moment. Then as your attention is on something else, and state starts to fade a bit, do the trigger gesture and simultaneously say the trigger word/phrase in the special tonality. Ideally at this point you will yourself popped back into the resource state automatically.

Congratulations! You now have a way of instantly accessing these feelings anytime you want to experience them.

4g. Repeat 4d through 4f with each of the states on your list. Keep the anchor (aka combination of trigger gesture, and accompanying word/phrase plus the special tonality that goes with it ) the same each time through. This will set it up such that you can instantly access all of these states of mind simultaneously by simply using your anchor gesture and phrase.

Optional - Troubleshooting If you are experiencing any difficulty with the anchoring step.

Be sure you go into the breathing, face, and movement style that would go with the particular state. Be sure you're body and mind are both accessing the state.
Are you doing something else in your mind? If you are picturing a possible negative outcome while doing this, or talking to yourself about how it won't work or about something else, this process will not work very well. For this to work optimally you want to allow yourself to really get into the state you are anchoring. Let go, just for now, of any concerns about it. Let go of any other thoughts, and just allow yourself to step into your power.
If you have a lot of resistance to a particular state, or are having a lot of problems with the anchors you can just for now leave out that particular state.
Another choice is to go through the entire Creating Abilities format with the goal of developing the ability to quickly access a particular state of mind. Then, once you have developed more fully the ability to get into the state you desire, go through the Creating Abilities format again with the original outcome. You can recycle like this on any difficulty that comes up.
4f. At this point you should have a very powerful anchor. A combination of a phrase and gesture / touch that instantly allows you to access all the resource feelings on your list.

5. Clearing Personal History. What past memories do you have that conflict with this new ability you are developing? For instance, if the ability is to speak in front of groups with confidence - have you had times where you were the opposite? This is very common. Let's clear these memories out of the way. Use the Indexing Release Process from the book MindClearing to handle all of these. Make a list of all the memories that are the opposite of the ability, or conflict with it. Use the Indexing Release process with each one.

Here are some questions to get at these memories:

When weren't you able to do this, even though you wanted to?
Was there ever a time you realized you didn't this ability?
Did anyone ever tell you that you don't have this ability?
Did you ever promise, or make a vow, or decide not to ever have this ability?
Did you ever decide to be just like someone that didn't have this skill?
Were you ever ridiculed for having or wanting to have this ability?
Were you ever rewarded for NOT having it, or for the opposite of the skill?
Did you ever think it wasn't possible to do this?
Did you ever think you just weren't the kind of person that could do that?
Were you ever afraid of people would think if you were able to do this?
Did it ever seem like it wasn't safe or appropriate to manifest this ability?
What about the goal or benefits of the goal? Was there ever a time you decided it wasn't safe or ok or that you deserved or were the kind of person that could do, have or be that?
Make your list, and use the Indexing Release process on each memory or event from the past that has gotten in the way of you now fully being able to enjoy being extremely competent at this skill.

Depending on your history - you may have a lot of memories like this. It is possible to move onto step 6 after clearing some of the more negatively charged events. The more of those memories that have gone away from you fully having the ability, the easier it will be to manifest your new talents in the world.

6. Repeat steps 3 to 3e while holding your resource anchor. Repeat this until just imagining fully having this ability produces the same feelings as holding the resource anchor. It may take a few times through steps 3 to 3e holding your resource anchor to fully link the feelings of the anchor to the visualization. You can also explicitly add the feelings in your anchor to the As IF question in step 3.

At this point you are probably feeling pretty good about your new ability. Yet we have more to do to even more deeply install the ability and make it bullet-proof.

7. Ecology check. Ask inside ,"Does any part (aspect) of me object to my having the ability which would make that fantasy a reality?"
"Is there anything about the ability I don't like?"
"How will this impact my life, work, relationships, health, finances, integrity, community, and family?"
Is there anything that doesn't look right?
What could be the downside of this ability?
How does this sound to you?
How do you feel about having this ability?
- How do you feel about feeling that way about having this ability?
What will you lose by having this ability?
What will you gain?
What are the benefits and detriments of this ability?
What problems could be caused by my having this ability?
What would happen if I had this ability?
What would happen if I didn't have the ability?
What won't happen if I have this ability?
What will happen if I don't have ability?
What are the potential downsides of having this ability? (Note: There is always a downside.)
What will I have to give up to have this ability? (Note: There is always something to give up.)

7a. Make a complete written list of all objections, concerns, problems, negatives, losses, and potential downsides.

7b. For each objection or concern - what is the purpose of the objection or concern? What is the learning? What is important about the objection or concern? What does it do for you?

8. Satisfy all the objections.

a) Redefine the ability you are creating to take into account all the objections, concerns, and what is important about each one.

b) Go back to step 3 and make a new or modified fantasy that will satisfy all your concerns.

c) Check with every aspect of yourself to make sure all concerns are satisfied, and that the new ability will have no detrimental effects.

d) Repeat the Clearing Personal History step with any other memories that come to mind that could get in the way.

e) if you need any additional Resource States, add them to your "stacked" anchor and repeat step 6.

f) Repeat the Ecology Check steps again 7 & 8.

9. Enlist Your Unconscious Mind. Use a pendulum or muscle testing to communicate directly to your unconscious mind:

a) Unconscious mind, please analyze the movie / fantasy of my having this ability and pull from it the essential ingredients. Use this information to build the ability and make it a reality so that you (unconscious mind) can do this easily and exquisitely - at every moment it needs to be done. Begin now, and let me know with a feeling of certainty when you have completed this step fully.

b) Unconscious mind, do you now know what to do to achieve the outcome (specify) of this ability? Do you know what to do to fully integrate this ability as part of me?

If no - what do you need? Go get the resource. Or recycle.

c) Is it possible for you to manifest this ability in the world at every moment you need and want to manifest it? If not, what do you need to be able to ?

d) Is there any thing you need to learn or do to fully manifest this ability?

e) Unconscious mind, go ahead and make this ability fully available to me in all situations.

f) When will you start to make this ability fully available to me?

g) When will it be completely available?

10) Test. Ask yourself if you have the ability.

a. Imagine actually using the ability in a dozen possible future situations.

b. Imagine going back into your past, and having the ability from a very young age, and grow up through time, all the way to the present having this ability.

11.) Now, take your new ability through the Wisdom Grid.

12) Go do it in the real world. Learn from, and be empowered and excited by what ever happens.