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You may have heard of this disorder- it’s when sufferers like to focus on ‘righteous’ eating and have rigid rules about avoiding certain foods. It came to our attention when Amelia Hill the social affairs correspondent for the Guardian at a UK publication published her article talking all about it.

In her article she explained that the condition was named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, and is described as a “fixation on righteous eating”. Until a few years ago, there were so few sufferers that doctors usually included them under the catch-all label of “Ednos” – eating disorders not otherwise recognised. Now, experts say, Orthorexics take up such a significant proportion of the Ednos group that they should be treated separately.

Some of the tell tail signs to look out for:

* Rigid rules around eating.
* Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods.
* Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives.

So basically if you are eating for good health you are mentally sick. Given that we like to keep you up to date with techniques that NLP and Time Line Therapy ® are used for, we thought it would be prudent to give you the run down on assisting people with this disorder.

Here are the steps

1. Reframe that eating bad will shorten or affect your life or health; it’s ok to die early.
2. Reframe that genetically modified food is simply better food that is more profitable.
3. Use TLT techniques to let go of the Limiting Decisions that any food is bad and that you are happy to die over weight and young.
4. Do parts integration for the conflict on sugar being bad.
5. Set goals for eating bad food and feeling and living a shorter life!

All jokes aside you do have to worry when eating healthy is an eating disorder. Some say it’s a sign that we Orthorexics are winning the battle on poor eating.

What worries me is that some people will actually not relise I was joking and will be wanting to book a session with me to assist them with this made up disorder!

Of course not all eating disorders are to be joked about. Many serious eating disorders can be assited with the help of a coach so do make sure that you seek advice if you think that your eating behavior is not going the way you would like it!

I say Orthorexics unit!!

According to The Book of Lists, fear of public speaking ranks number one in the minds of a majority of people…however, overcoming this can truly transform your life! After the successful completion of our Annual NLP Trainers Training and seeing our new graduates transform themselves into bulletproof presenters, I thought it would be fitting to provide you with some tips that you can use to help you transform your stage presence and be an excellent presenter!.

1.    Be in control of your State
State means your emotional state, the way that you are feeling at any moment. When you are feeling really good within yourself you are probably going to behave differently than if you are not feeling good about yourself. You know this in your own experience. Compare your behaviour in those good times with the not-so-good times. A good state enables you to get far better results.
The state around you will affect everything else going on in and around you. Therefore you need to be in the right state for what you want to do and be able to change your state at will. Remember this: To a large extent the way you feel inside determines the results you get.
2.    Create Rapport with your audience
You can build Rapport with someone by matching their ways of communicating
-    Use the actual words they use. Use their jargon, their preferred terms, even if you think they are using the ‘wrong’ word. It is what it means to them that matters.
-    Use the same tonality. Say the words the way they do.
-    Adopt the same physiology. Use the same posture and gestures.
When you are in rapport with someone and matching them in these ways, they will be paying attention to you and open to hearing what you have to say.
3.    Be yourself
When first presenting, many presenters think, “It is not OK to be myself!” The more presenting we have done, the more we have realised that the best results were achieved when we were spontaneously being who we are, rather than doing any pretending. Most people need to let out more of who they really are. The more of you that is available to the audience, the more they will be able to connect and bond with you, and feel comfortable with you. Now, this does not mean that you have to reveal all of your private life to the audience, it simply means that you have to remove the barriers, so that the true you can emerge. Just remember: Being you is all you ever need.
4.    Elicit Positive States for your audience
As a presenter you will always be eliciting states within an audience. At every moment they are going to be in some particular physiological and emotional state, and this will affect how they are paying attention to you, how they are learning, and so on. But are they in the states you want them to be in? As a presenter or trainer it is your responsibility to know how to make sure your audience is in the most appropriate and ideal state for receiving and processing the information you are offering them. You want to maintain your audiences interest throughout your training or presentation by providing variety and richness in the states they are in: low, quiet, meditative, thoughtful states, or high, energetic, excited states; states of curiosity, great motivation, and so on.
The ability to elicit positive states within an audience will take you from just being a good provider of information, to being an entertaining and captivating presenter. We strongly believe that if you are going to stand up in front of an audience, you’d better be entertaining! An audience wants this and part of the entertainment comes from the states you are eliciting within them.
Here are four quick ways that you can elicit positive states within your audience.

-    Go into the desired state yourself (When you get into the state, they will follow you into the state themselves)

-    Ask the audience to remember a time in the past when they were in a desired state- for example motivation (As soon as they do this they will get the feelings that go along with that memory)

-    Ask them to imagine a time in the future when they will be in the desired state (You are helping them paint a mental picture of what it would be like)

-    Tell them a story or metaphor (a story evokes thoughts in your mind, and these thoughts elicit states in your body)

Recently (being Easter) I had the discussion with my wife about Easter, chocolate and the good the bad and the ugly. We often have good debates (that could translate to a heated discussion) and it’s a great time to have a think about the effects of what’s going on right now, moment to moment.

My wife came home after doing some shopping and stated “I cannot believe the highway robbery of Easter!” $9 for a small bag of eggs!

Always looking at an opportunity to create a reframe (also a great way to defuse),
I said “Well isn’t that great, people are helping the coco industry, reducing child labour and creating more wealth for third world countries”.

Closely followed up by, “You did buy the fair trade chocolate, didn’t you?”

So I thought, what other kind of reframes could I use?

At Practitioner level we look at a context reframe and a meaning reframe. For those that need a refresher on reframes.

Lets look at how reframes can change our perspective and how we can learn how to do this sort of reframe in our head on the fly?  The notion of reframing comes from Hypnosis and Milton Erickson and it also comes from transformational grammar and people like Paul Vaclavik.

Now by shifting the logical levels in this context, (and remember the hierarchy of ideas- chunking up and chunking down), we actually chunk up one level or go to a higher level of abstraction.  One of my favourite paradoxes, is from the book “How Real is Real” By Vaclavik, where he talks about this really nice paradox, so if you want to play, do this paradox with me.

Take a piece of paper and draw on it- a box. What I’d like you to do is I’d like you to put your initials in the box if, and only if, you can predict that when I look at the box next the box will be empty. Interesting huh? That’s a fun sort of a paradox.

The thing about paradoxes is that they’re only resolvable on a higher logical level which is what really makes them so much fun to contemplate. Reframing to a large extent is about shifting the context or shifting your thinking from the level that you’re at to a higher logical level.  It’s about changing and moving to a higher logical level.  If you change the thinking and you move to a higher logical level you’ll be thinking outside of the box that the client’s thinking in.

Now here’s the thing, people come to you with a problem, their problem is on a certain logical level or their problem is in a certain context or their problem has a certain set of parameters around it. In essence we could say their problem’s got a box around it.  Now the only way that you’re going to be able to think outside the box for that person is if you’ve practised it.

Your ability to think outside the box is what’s going to give your client and you the most flexibility to make changes.  So contemplating reframing and contemplating paradox is probably one of the most important things you can do in NLP to begin to stretch your brain, to actually begin to see what kinds of things that you can think of differently from the way other people present a presenting problem to you.

So did you check to see if your Easter Eggs are the fair trade chocolate?

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