Author name: Tom Dotz

What The Eyes Reveal

How’re You Doin’? Article Word Count 932, average reading time 3.7 minutes “Fine”, is what you’d probably answer, if someone asked you this question. Actually, “fine” is what we say to be polite, no matter HOW we are feeling! We’re all taught that. Think about the last hundred times you said or heard, “How are

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Escaping Troublesome Gulch: Using Your Internal Voices & Converting Negative Self Talk

Troublesome Gulch is the name of a road in the town one over.  It happens to be where a famous ex-Senator lives who certainly created his share of troubles for himself.   However his internal dialogue framed it, he behaved as if the rules didn’t apply to him.  All it cost him was his Senate

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Giving Thanks

Attitude is one of the key tenets of NLP.  In this sweet story Steve Andreas tells how attitude and setting your perceptual filters can combine to sort your experience and your opportunities to bring you more of what is best for you. Enjoy! Tom Dotz Giving Thanks by Steve Andreas. 850 words, approximate reading time

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Words that Trap

Language patterns are one of the most constantly popular models in NLP. Here in a story from the book “Is There Life Before Death?” Steve Andreas describes in a very easy way the profound traps we create by our (mis)use of language in our everyday lives. And if you would like to search through some

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Knowing Where To Tap

This is one of many stories I fondly remember from my first Practitioner Training. Along with numerous others it’s to be found in the Trainer’s Version of the “NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Training Manual” as well as in “Is There Life Before Death?” Among other reasons that the training was remarkable was that while a lot

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Building Sidewalks

Steve recaptures a nice example of how we shape our reality not just with words, but with our behaviors.  We create maps with words, and “kinesthetically” – in this example, by how we walk.   And then, our creations shape our behaviors! Enjoy, Tom Dotz Building Sidewalks, by Steve Andreas 445 Words, 2.5 minutes reading

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