L. Michael Hall and Bob Bodenhamer – Games for Mastering Fear

Developing your own emotional intelligence is the topic of this book. The book we made is about Neuro-Semantics. This is a book about state of the art techniques for handling fearful objects, events, people, and ideas.

This book is about learning how to access the best kind of mind-body states so that your fears can be useful and empowering. You can use them to enrich your life and eliminate those that only make you spin.

What will you learn from this book?

What new information will you discover?

What new skills will you develop?

Emotions are just that. They aren’t messages from Heaven about what to do. The difference between how you have mapped the way things should go and your experience of the way things actually go is what they tell you. You will discover that you are more than that. You are more important to them than they are to you. Feelings can misguide you.

Quality Control your brain is something you will learn about. You still need to explore it in terms of itsecology after you detect an emotion.

Does it really serve you? Does it improve your life? Will it help you as a person?

In these pages, you will learn how to turn down, minimize, reduce, or even eliminate unhumanizing emotions. You will learn how to control the internal cinematic feature movies in your mind. There is a lot more. You will learn how to use your mind and emotions to become more congruent with your values and visions. The way that you talk can make life a living hell or a paradise. The structure of how to make life full of meaning and how to develop a great relationship to ideas are discovered by you.

How do we know if this approach works?

Does this model work? Is it working in our lives? Does it work in the lives of people we have worked with?

Fifteen years ago, Dr. Bob and I learned the NLP model. We discovered some of the magic-like techniques in this book. It was my discovery that life-long fears and phobias could be solved in a few minutes which took me into the field of NLP while still in a state of disbelief.

I didn’t believe it when I first heard of thePhobia Cure. I didn’t see how the process would work in the way it was described. When I first ran the pattern with a client, I told her that I had recently come upon a new process and that I didn’t know if it would work, but I wanted to give it a try. She was ready to play. I asked her to get over her fear, but she couldn’t. I was more shocked and surprised than she was.

For the next half a dozen times, I used the pattern. I was certain that it wouldn’t work this time. Each time it worked. The individuals would not be able to get the fear back because they experienced a transformation before my eyes. I was completely enamored by the process, even though I was still unconvinced. I needed to know how this works. Why is this transformation so amazing?

Those were the questions that led me to study the field and to be certified as a trainer. Bob had a similar story. He tells about how he was drawn to learn about the magic of the human mind and nervous system because of the field of NLP. His fascination led him to change careers and to head off on a different path, all the while trying to prove that it works.

The way the human mind and body creates its realities was discovered by me some years later. It happened one day when I was researching people who had the ability to bounce back from trauma without being traumatized in the first place. The model was called Meta-States. The creation of the field that is now known as Neuro-Semantics was initiated by Bob and I.

Get it immediately. Games for mastering fear were written by L. Michael Hall and Bob Bodenhamer.

I reformulated Meta-States into Frame Games. This refers to how we play the Games of our lives, what we say, feel, and do, and how we do so according to our mental understandings of the Rules of the Game. Games Business Experts Play (2001), Games Slim People Play (2001), and now this third one in the series of frame game books are all related to this.

Bob presented the original materials on mastering fear at Gastonia College in North Carolina. The course title was Mastering All Your Fears. I formatted it into the Frame Games structure. That is the story in a nutshell.

Who should read this book?

We wrote this book for anyone who is afraid of life, afraid of themselves, or afraid of their emotions. We wrote it to allow you to continue the story as you discover and experience magic of your own. That is our hope. We hope that you will refuse the old Games and enter into the new Games of Courage and Confidence that will make all of your life an exciting adventure.

Do you know how to use the book to eliminate fears? You don’t. It is not necessary because that would help immensely.

To refuse the Old Games that have undermined your success, happiness, and resourcefulness, and onto the New Games that will make your life more magical and blessed!

In gratitude.

The manuscript has been brought into this form by several people. They were thanked for their insights and improvements. They have made the work clear. They are indebted to us for their passion and generosity.

There is a table of contents.

Preface 5

The games of fear have a structure.

It’s ch. There are 7 games for mastering fear.

It’s ch. Introducing the Fear Games.

It’s ch. The Games of Fear are about fear.

It’s ch. The Fight/Flight Game was played.

The frame games model is part 2.

It’s ch. What in the World is a Frame Game?

It’s ch. There are 6 frames that drive the games.

It’s ch. There are 7 ways to play and master frame games.

Resource games can be used to overcome fear.

It’s ch. The game is called The Relaxation Game.

It’s ch. There are 9 leverage games.

Games can be used to transform fear.

It’s ch. There are 10 games for making new and better movies.

It’s ch. Fear games can be made redundant by 11 mastery games.

It’s ch. TheNominalization game

It’s ch. There are 13 games for mastering meta- fears.

Part V is about advanced language games.

It’s ch. The games of language are used to overcome fear.

It’s ch. There are 15 games for mastering Semantic Reaction.

Let the games begin.

There is a bibliography.

Glossary

There are trainings available.

Authors.