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Day 3 – Transformation Day!

What an incredible, albeit, emotionally charged day! After a long day (from 8:30am thru 1:30am), the group of us were amazingly energized and excited. The energy level was insane as towards the end of the night we had a mini rave that ended with Tony and crew dousing audience members (and themselves) with water. It was like a big party at one point! Aside from all the fun, Tony guided us through some intense transformational exercises that targeted our limiting beliefs, which ultimately is designed to close the gap between what we desire/our goals, and obtaining results.

The major thrust of Transformation Day is to take a goal (e.g., mine was losing weight), and eliminate beliefs that get in the way (e.g., it’s too hard, “I can’t”, etc.). The idea was to eliminate the non-constructive beliefs and replace with positive beliefs. In order to facilitate the process of changing beliefs, we were guided through a visualization exercise that forced us to take a look at a future without accomplishing the goal. Going back to my example of losing weight/becoming healthier, my visualization was imagining myself consistently gaining weight over the course of the next few years and decade and seeing the end result – myself as severely obese – which was a very traumatizing experience. The point was to feel the consequences of not taking action towards a goal.

After the visualization exercise we were given an alternative - accomplishing goals. For example, mine was being model thin (hey, I can dream, right?), healthy, and full of energy. Now, think about this, do you think visualization of the consequences is effective? In my case, oh yeah! Robbin’s visualization exercise was so simple, yet effective. Imagining myself as fat was traumatic enough for me to do something about it. (Since attending the seminar, I have changed my eating habits, and when I do indulge a fatty treat, I only eat a couple bites.) Anchoring exercises followed the visualization exercise to further support change.

Major concepts covered today were:

• The pyramid of mastery:  7 areas of constant growth for an extraordinary life, which includes the physical body, which was the first layer, or most basic base layer for growth. 
  • We then scored these aspects of our life (physical body, relationships, career, finances, etc) on a scale of 1-10 to get a picture of where we are in each layer – the idea being that most of us are unequally focused on some areas and not others. The goals is strive for excellence in all areas in order to be whole.
  • Filling out a gap map to determine where and how much we full short in accomplishing our mastery areas
• The 3 pillars of an extraordinary life, and the fast track to results and personal mastery
• The importance of strategies to organize resources and consistently produce results; and the strategy types: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory.
• We even learned a few tips that are meant to establish more connection with a lover/partner, such as auditory location
•  The importance of standards. Specifically, raising your standards will change your life
• The 2 mm difference between excellence and outstanding
• Values – towards and away types, which might be in conflict

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 18th, 2007 at 10:44 am and is filed under Reviews, Anthony Robbins.