One of the most popular areas in NLP is the set of processes for changing beliefs. I also get a lot of requests for patterns and processes you can do by yourself. So this week I’m including one of the simplest and most suitable for a “DIY” approach. Created by Robert Dilts, the “Walking Belief Change Pattern” is both powerful and easy to use, even if you don’t have a lot of experience with NLP.
In basketball there is a saying that you have to learn to play to your left to master the game. This refers to the fact that most people are right handed and find it easier and more natural to play to their preferred side. So for basketball players learning to have the flexibility to play to either side gives them a significant advantage. What’s true in a game isn’t necessarily true in life. A few
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
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.
(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
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
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
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
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 to a friend of his whose business had really been devastated by the economic downturn. I’ll call him Gil. He
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