“Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas” How our communities- of choice, birth, and chance – both form and inform us. Mom used to tell you to choose your friends wisely. Gurus advise their devotees to form “sanghas” or spiritual communities. Now science has put some very precise numbers and reasoning behind these aphorisms […]
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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
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Priorities, Relationships, Success: This week’s story is an update of a favorite by Tom Hoobyar, “When Will You Be Home? Quick Announcement: Remember, you still have time to get to the ONLY real NLP Conference in the United States! And if you can’t make it in person, there’s a smokin’ deal on the complete audios.
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Attitude is one of the key tenets of NLP. In this sweet story Steve Andreas tells how attitude and setting your perceptual filters can combine to sort your experience and your opportunities to bring you more of what is best for you. Enjoy! Tom Dotz Giving Thanks by Steve Andreas. 850 words, approximate reading time
Language patterns are one of the most constantly popular models in NLP. Here in a story from the book “Is There Life Before Death?” Steve Andreas describes in a very easy way the profound traps we create by our (mis)use of language in our everyday lives. And if you would like to search through some
Steve recaptures a nice example of how we shape our reality not just with words, but with our behaviors. We create maps with words, and “kinesthetically” – in this example, by how we walk. And then, our creations shape our behaviors! Enjoy, Tom Dotz Building Sidewalks, by Steve Andreas 445 Words, 2.5 minutes reading
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Self-Description: Neuro-LINGUISTIC Programming is a lot about words: how they shape our perceptions, our relationships, our abilities, our beliefs and every aspect of our subjective experience. Here are two very concise and examples from Steve Andreas revealing how they can take part in shaping our self image. 602 Words, 3.5 minutes reading time Self-Description By
“To do NLP you need three things: An Outcome, Rapport, and a Ritual.” – John Grinder The fundamentals underlie everything. In our NLP trainings we spend a good deal of time on the essentials of rapport like matching, mirroring, and pacing in various modalities. Here’s an example of how a mismatch in just one submodality
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Oh it’s summertime, the living is easy, and I’m off to Winter Park for the trainings, wishing you were joining us. Since you aren’t, I have a couple of entertaining and thoughtful stories and metaphors for you. The next few are from the mind of Steve Andreas, and more specifically from his collection of stories
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This week’s article reveals some conversational uses of advanced language patterns and advanced submodalities, covered in our Practitioner course on DVD as well as in our LIVE Practitioner Training. “Last Call!” The 2010 Summer Practitioner Training is filling up. We promised to cap it at 20, and we’re getting close. There’s time to call if
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