Making Choice Just A Little Easier In NLP we are real big on increasing choice. One of the basic presuppositions is “Choice is better than no choice” another is “The element in a system with the most flexibility (choice) has the most control.” I was talking with an old friend the other day who was […]
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Word Count 884 reading time 3.5 minutes Sometimes it’s easy to think that changing someone’s beliefs requires a big formal process. I was out visiting some old familiar places in Silicon Valley last week. After living there 25 years you make some interesting acquaintances. Meeting an old pal for coffee one day he introduced me
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Back in the 1960’s a popular slogan on posters and bumper stickers was “Question Authority.” It was directed outward, at the strictures and the authority to impose them of government and organizations – church, school, the “cool kids,” television and movies, books, art, and yes, science. In the language studies of NLP we learn some
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by Richard Bandler, excerpted from the NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Manual Trainer Edition A fast little process – with a little practice you’ll find yourself doing this in just minutes – that’s great for motivating yourself to do things you know you need to do and want to have completed but seem to keep putting off.
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Our world today is on the cusp of an incredibly exciting and precarious time – one in which people are increasingly questioning and seeking a life of meaning, purpose, and contribution. There is a greater call for both sincere intention and depth of skill to facilitate a higher quality life and work experience – for
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Quick change is usually easier, and kinder, than the alternatives. Most of all, it’s a skill anyone can learn. 1011 words; Reading Time 3.88 minutes Most people think that making big changes in life takes a lot of effort and a lot of time, and the bigger the change the harder it will be. Not
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A Story of NLP In Action – from one of our readers, John Lambert. “I hadn’t seen ‘Susan’ at work for a few days, She drives her van to work when it’s not cold or raining (she broke the driver’s side window out one day when she locked her keys inside). She doesn’t have the
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Found this one in the local weekly, “Westword.” 🙂 “Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech? In this recently posted video, for instance, Obama is accused of using “the techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP), a covert form of hypnosis,” to … As you may have heard, Barack Obama recently became the
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In the spirit of these economic times, let me tell you a story about conferences and congruence. Thirty-odd years ago, I’m walking in Manhattan with a long-time friend. A piece of paper blows by. My friend grabs it up, hands it to me and says, “Keep this. It’s really valuable.” I look at it –
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Last week we brought you another great story of the power of applying just one of the most basic NLP techniques for establishing rapport (“Tuning In” Jan 23, 09) Here is another example – excerpted from one of the most popular articles we posted last year – of the effectiveness and transformative qualities of NLP
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