The Power Of Four – How Four Little Questions Can Change Your World

Avoiding collapsing businesses and getting a better job? Making better investments in love and life? The Power of Four – How Four little questions can change your world – or the world of someone around you. “According to whom?” “What would happen if you did/didn’t? How, exactly,…? Who, specifically…? One of the essential language sections in any good NLP training is called the MetaModel. It’s the first set of language patterns taught because understanding and

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How to Benefit from Procrastination

I wondered about that NLP Presupposition for a long time. Finally, I thought of one place where it is really useful. That place is behaviors you wish to simply stop, without replacing. Procrastinating is a very powerful way to stop those habits, behaviors, or addictions that you’re already really tired of. After all, isn’t the definition of procrastinating not doing? For instance, I drank alcohol pretty consistently for most of my adult life. Last year

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NLP Perceptual Filters and the Filtering Mindset

The primary presupposition underlying all of Neuro-Linguistic Programming is that The Map is not the Territory. You experience life through a set of personal perceptual filters that are unique to you. Your experience is filtered first by the limits of your sensory organs and what you perceive as a small slice of the world. In this sense, you are out of touch with reality, because your every perception is ‘filtered’ not only by your biology

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Beginning NLP

3 NLP Techniques to Create Instant State Change

I had a request to re-post this classic from our archives, so here it is!  By Kevin Creedon, it’s a great little piece of quick-change artistry good for all 🙂 3 NLP Techniques to Create Instant State Change – by Kevin Creedon “Think of a problem.” Those four words are used repeatedly throughout NLP training because most of the time NLP techniques are used in a prescriptive manner.  That means that, after the fact, we

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Rapport: What It Is and Why You Care

815 Words, 3.26 time to read, read online <link> After the last couple of emails about some very specific ways to establish rapport, it occurred to me that I hadn’t defined it, or described its importance. Let’s dive into that now and be clear on how, where, and why you care (a lot) about the ability to have rapport, and even to be able to turn it off at will. John Grinder, the co-founder of

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Life Skills: Rapport #3, Influence : You’ve Paced, Now Lead

361 Words, time 1.44 In the last couple posts (here and here) you were shown the rapport move called pacing. Pacing effectively creates a connection so that you can lead a conversation in the direction you want to go. This could be as simple as where to have dinner or as complex as agreeing on a project development contract. Pacing allows you to establish a connection regardless of the content of the interaction. It gives

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Life Skills: Rapport #2, The Power Move: Pacing And Leading In Conversational Rapport-Building

Life Skills: Pacing and Leading, The Power Move In Conversational Rapport-Building. Many behaviors can be paced, or mirrored. These NLP Rapport skills are pretty easy to learn, and you can practice them anytime and anywhere that you can observe someone. They are tools you can use to create better connections and have greater influence. These NLP skills will benefit you in all types of communications. And in today’s world, COVID-19 has eliminated physical face-to-face meetings.

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Anchoring

Anchoring for Results

Anchoring in NLP is a core technique. As the basis of so many larger processes, getting very skilled at anchoring is work that will be so very worth it. You can use anchoring to maintain a state, to elicit a resourceful state, to eliminate unwanted reactions, and as a part of so many other processes. It really is a core technique, without which, I’m not sure you can effectively practice NLP. As NLP practitioners, whether

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The Power Of Touch

Another of our popular stories from Tom Hoobyar embodying some NLP processes and everyday wisdom. This week’s story draws from Section 1 — about anchoring (and much more)- in the NLP Portable Practitioner Training . If you have it, you’ll get even more out of the story! Enjoy, Tom Dotz The Power Of Touch By Tom Hoobyar Article Word Count 1227, average reading time 4.9 minutes. Some years back I met this nice woman in

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Deciding to learn? Can’t quite get motivated? Strategies: The Commanding NLP Model

Deciding to learn? Can’t quite get motivated?  Strategies:  The Commanding NLP Model A Story, a Video, a Process, and Announcements Three: This week in NLP! From the questions and comments I see around the web it’s evident that NLP is becoming known more and more as a bundle of “patterns” or “techniques,” mostly concerned with some aspect of self-improvement.  That is a sadly limited view. These are simply applications of NLP, or as Grinder once

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