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Visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain and vice versa

NLP has long proposed different learning and perceptual styles bases on individual’s sensory preferences. The emerging field of Neuroscience is validating more and more of the proposals of NLP as in this example. March 25th, 2009 http://www.physorg.com/news157202233.html A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency to convert linguistically presented information into

Tom Dotz July 27, 2009

The Sage Advice Process

This is a simple and yet profound process you can do with no previous knowledge of NLP – just a good imagination! 1. Sit across from an empty chair. Close your eyes, relax, breathe slowly and deeply. Begin to think of the very distant future. 2. Let an image of an ancient and wise you form in the chair in front of you. This is an ancient you who has reached all of your potential.

Tom Dotz July 21, 2009

Practice Building: The Top Six Mistakes And How To Avoid Them – Part 2

(Part 1 is here: http://www.nlpco.com/2009/07/practice-building-1 ) We have already covered errors in philosophical grounding, lack of skill, and a failure of implementing a sustainable structure for your business–and for the scope of your clients’ needs. What is next? More nuts and bolts rather than philosophical grounding or mindset: Mistake: Having only 1 stream of prospects Most coaches and solo-preneurs rely on word of mouth. Word of mouth is critical. In the 21st Century marketplace there

Tom Dotz July 21, 2009

Practice Building: The Top Six Mistakes And How To Avoid Them.

We’re lucky enough to have a website that was one of the very first in NLP. The upside of one of the world’s original NLP sites is recognition and credibility. The downside was embedded obsolescence. After months of work we have it cleaned up, and a new design and navigation. (Maybe now the search engines will see the whole site, and not just part of it.) 🙂 More important to you we’ve changed the look

Tom Dotz July 8, 2009

When NLP Doesn’t Work – And What To Do

What to do, what to do. Sometimes you do a simple process, it works like a charm. Other times you wonder if it did, or you know it didn’t. Here’s a reminder of the logical first place to start and how to deal with it. Enjoy, Tom Dotz P.S. Remember: Summer In The Mountains: Personal and Career Rejuvenation in our exclusive NLP Immersion Trainings! Click Here To Read All About It! Now you can study NLP and

Tom Dotz June 4, 2009

Change Without Pain NLP Story

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 facing another of those transitions we all experience in life’s passages. She was living alone in the large home where

Tom Dotz May 21, 2009

Questioning Authority

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 useful ways to challenge authority, and perhaps more useful, how to recognize internal “authorities” who are imposing limits on us

Tom Dotz April 24, 2009

Changing A Life In 3 minutes: NLP In Action

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 so. Not even close. Here’s a story of how fast and easily you can do this. One day years ago

Tom Dotz February 19, 2009

Better Than A Bucket: Conversational Coaching With NLP

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 money to fix the window so on ‘bad’ weather days she drives her boyfriend’s truck to work. When I saw

Tom Dotz February 12, 2009

Did Barack Obama hypnotize the nation during his Denver acceptance speech?

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 president of the United States. However, his enemies continue to portray him as a smooth but dangerous character whose rhetorical

Tom Dotz February 6, 2009