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 …
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 …
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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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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Because of the requests as a result of the post “The Inside Family” I’m posting this version of the Parts Party format (you may want to read “The Inside Family” first. :-).
If you played with this weeks’ Tip, you noticed how anchors already are and have been affecting you for your entire life, and affect you to this day. Here’s another set of examples in this article by Seth Godin, a brilliant marketer and a very good writer. The context is familiar to all of us: …
THE SWISH PATTERN (Richard Bandler) Joke: A young recruit in the army began acting very strangely one morning. Instead of his regular duties, he was continually moving about, searching for something in a very distracted way. When questioned about it he would only say, “I’ve got to find it. I know it’s here somewhere.” When …
Following on your proactive practice with last week’s introduction and preparation, you’ll be able to step right in to this fundamental and powerful piece of NLP. Ideally use the same partner to work with, although if you enroll a new one and take them through the introductory portion again, you’ll just learn that much more!
Submodalities are one of the predominant models in NLP. They have been used in creating some of the most powerful interventions including the Swish Variations, the Forgiveness Pattern, Mapping Across, the Grief Pattern, and 20 more that I know of. The entire area of Timelines (which we will explore later in this series) is just …