Humor has been a part of NLP work since the early days. In this story Steve Andreas, a fan of humor and NLP if there ever was one, tells you how that come to be. He shows what is important for you and ways you can use humor to lighten your life and ease your work. Plus there’s a video example featuring Nick Kemp using the power of humor in his “Provocative Therapy” Nick uses
Beginning in the 70’s Steve and Connirae Andreas started modeling and codifying NLP patterns. As common as it is today, in the 80’s they were the first to create video recordings as teaching tools for NLP. Over the decades of developing and refining some very advanced NLP patterns, a few of the recordings were lost. One of those lost recordings was of the “Last Straw” threshold pattern. Steve wanted to make this available again, and
Another great guest post from one of our founders, Steve Andreas. Steve and Connirae have developed numerous classic patterns in NLP. Their processes are uniquely like this one: simple and simply powerful. This example is in the context of healing and improving health. It’s a great example of the power and ease of really elegant NLP. Like the first time with any NLP process, it’s best to start with a very simple example. Perhaps something
One of the more popular requests we get is how to be “more motivated.” In the NLP model of “Metaprograms” motivation is described as an analog sorting. At one end you have what is labeled “away from” and at the other, “towards.” Many people, including a lot of NLP “experts” are mistaken in thinking that motivation is digital (either/or) and deluded in proselytizing that “away from” motivation is bad, and only “towards” motivation is good.
New video clips: Resolving Obstacles; Personal Ecology; Getting and Having Congruence. Posted these clips for you from the (rapidly disappearing) “NLP Portable Practitioner Training” These are some great shorts demonstrating how NLP can be used to free you from obstacles seen or unseen. You’ll also be able to easily imagine how this can expand to serve your desire to make a difference in the world. Naturally you’re smart enough to know that to acquire the
This is about using NLP to control stress reactions, and I’m going to use new research from our toughest military training as an example of what’s possible. Our U.S. Navy SEALs have the reputation of being the best commandos ever created. A Navy SEAL is someone who has survived the most challenging military training in the world. SEAL stands for Sea, Air, and Land fighting, and these guys do it all, from swimming underwater to
There’ll Never Be Another…2010. So, whatever hopes or expectations you had for this year have now occurred. Now you have another chance – it’s time to plan for 2011. Blah, blah, blah. That’s what everyone else is talking about. All the commentators, bloggers and columnists who have to come up with something “timely” to write about this week. They’re all talking about how we have a brand New Year to plan. Not me. I had
Greetings! This is a “How To Enjoy The Holiday” email. It will tell you how to have a wonderful holiday, even though you have to put up with some of your least favorite people. For many folks, holiday gatherings are a chore and a challenge. Face it, there’s a reason that this time of year, in spite of all the yummy songs about “Good will to all” – is frequently a time of tension. Just
1459 words, average reading time 5.8 minutes Greetings! There is a dirty little secret in the NLP world. And it’s this: No matter how much you know, it’s VERY difficult to do real work on yourself. We all know this. There’s even a saying about it: “Doing NLP on yourself is like playing tennis alone. You can do it, but it’s very slow.” The Problem Is That You Can’t Be In Two Places At Once.
I have an asparagus fern named Lazarus. Why did I name him Lazarus? I’ll tell you why. I named him Lazarus because when I first got him for my batchelor apartment I was sometimes a neglectful caretaker. I got the plant so there would be something alive in my apartment besides me. It came in a small green plastic pot about the size of a coffee mug and cost two dollars. It was a little