Tony explains how changing your posture, breathing, and speech patterns can shift your nervous system and mood. He describes curing a seven-year snake phobia in a live stage demonstration and now trains therapists in these NLP techniques.
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I got a chance to turn people around. I learned something called neurolinguistic programming, how language affects the nervous system. The language, the way you say something, or— Yes, how it can change someone's nervous system. If somebody's depressed, you know, their shoulders are more down. Where's their head? Down. They're going to talk loud or quiet? Quiet. You change someone's shoulders, you change the tempo of their breath, the tempo of their speaking, a gesture, and their entire biochemistry changes. So I'm known for taking all these people who are depressed and show them how to turn around and how to then sustain it. I started doing that. I started challenging psychiatrists saying, give me your worst patient, I'll have them in 1 hour. I've been working with a woman for 7 years with a snake phobia. I did it on stage and that launched me. So that became my tool. Now today I train therapists. They get credits for studying my work. It's a new pattern of how you think and feel and behave. So everything is interpreted from a different level.