NLP Neuro Linguistic Programming

Amazing - I had a personal experience a few days ago of creating an event which I knew at the time would CHANGE a lot of things. As I walked away from this event I noticed that a whole group of past events were changing color as I was walking - the memories were turning to SEPIA!

Now for something really useful, extremely neat and quite delightful in every way - the hypno-sleep spiral.

This is a very, very cool pattern to help someone get to sleep at night by entering into consecutively deeper and deeper trance states, ending up with hypno-sleep that turns into natural sleep by itself; but there's a lot more to this self hypnosis pattern than meets the eyes.

When you tell people to "practice NLP" or anything, for that matter (and I tell people this often!), I wonder what internal representations they are making, or what they think I mean by "practice".

What do you think that word means?

As we are working our way through the various new websites, I came across an article containing a really interesting version of an old favourite NLP TimeLine pattern - The Guardian Angel.

I've been watching a TV program about astrophysics and I am being driven INSANE by their appalling misuse of metaphor.

Here is an example of "mad metaphor in science" - see if you get this ...

As so many things, this motivational story "The Mountain" which I co-authored with an anonymous person in 1999, has many levels, and many layers.

At the top level, it is a motivational story about how to motivate yourself to ecological, cohesive action that really does get fantastic results, in fact, results way BEYOND what the dream or expectation of the goal, accomplished, might be.

But this is also a motivational story to motivate the reader to challenge motivational stories, to not take an "off the peg" societal brainwashing so called motivational story as the gospel, and by all means, get out the sword of reason, and in this case also the sword of love, and cut through the bullshit of the ages, in the process creating MUCH MORE MOTIVATIONAL stories that have some form of actual reality at the heart of them.

Do you engage in Self Sabotage? Sometimes also known as unconscious sabotage, or being your own worst enemy?

Some in psychology hold self sabotage to be an indication of an inner conflict, but there's also a different way to look at the problem of self sabotage altogether ...

If you want to be an outstanding NLP communicator - NLP practitioner, lecturer, trainer - then you need NLP style STORIES.

You need lots of stories, an arsenal of NLP stories, from which you can fluently pick and choose to create the right order and sequence of events, states, and metaphor to have your audience achieve the changes or the healing they are seeking.

But where do you get GREAT NLP stories from? Here are some good ideas to start your own NLP story collection - and how to create your own.

In the movie Dumbo, the clowns are having a conversation. They're talking about their act, and they say, "If the audience laughs like crazy if we throw the elephant of a 7 story building, they're going laugh even harder when we throw it off a 10 story building! A thirty story building - we'll make a killing! The greatest act that ever was!"

The fact is that they are wrong.

What is energy hypnosis? How exactly is it different from standard NLP hypnosis? And what are the core skills of energy hypnosis?

Here is a concise introduction to energy hypnosis by Dr Silvia Hartmann.

It can happen that unwanted internal representations "flash up" repeatedly, even though one may try one's best to think of something else, or to ignore the internal representation. There are also internal representations that could be based on memories, and a particularly unhelpful class of these are "future fears" - making internal representations of traumatic events in the future that haven't happened yet.

The Quantum X Grenade pattern is a last resort technique to destroy the entire thoughtfield and to take it out altogether, rather than attempting to change it in any way, which is the more usual cause of action.

EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques has been described as being the "missing kinaesthetic quadrant" for NLP.

In this excerpt from the special report "NLP & EFT", Dr Hartmann discusses Releasing Blocking Issues To NLP Techniques, Basic Uses Of EFT In The NLP Treatment Flow, and Using EFT To Clear Limiting Beliefs In The NLP Facilitator.

Trusting, Trusting The Unconscious Mind ...

One of the major precepts of advanced NLP language and hypnosis is that the NLP operator have at least some communication with their unconscious mind, as it is impossible to deal with the real complexities of intent, outcome, language, state and energy in consciousness alone. To create a successful NLP type hypnotic induction, for example, it is the unconscious mind that needs to deliver the right internal representation in the right order and sequence to achieve the desired outcome for the trance.

Here is a redefinition of what the unconscious mind is, how it works, and how to successfully communicate with the unconscious mind, by Dr Silvia Hartmann, Designer of Project Sanctuary & The Genius Symbols.

Learning Presuppositions: What's Behind The Words? One of the most powerful and important exercises in NLP language is to learn to understand and notice the presuppositions BEHIND the mask of the words. Here is an easy exercise to learn about NLP style presuppositions.

In this NLP language article, Dr Hartmann shows how correct language can avoid "Korzybskian Insanity" in the bereavement process and gives a chance for time to heal bereavement naturally.

If you model "human excellence" you can't help but get stuck in what there has already been - and the true potential for human development lies in the unexplored territory of WHAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN BEFORE.

How can we model BEYOND existing models? And what are the benefits of modelling - the OTHERS?

The truly amazing thing about the utilization processes is that each time I employed them, not only did it RESCUE the dire situation and prevent a long term disaster - but in the contrary, the END RESULT was better than if the disaster had never occurred in the first place!

What if we were actually able to reliably CREATE experiences and learnings, healings and re-alignments out of NOTHING AT ALL AND EVERYTHING AT ALL – just simply by the choice of outcome frame placed upon these events?

An NLP wordgame, a play on words - realise, realisation, reality: Can we use NLP style languaging to create reality? Are we doing it already? Are we creating reality well?

And how far do we ...

To control exactly where in time the consciousness travels, or in other words, where to place one's attention in past, present or future, is a movement of consciousness that is one of the core skills in reality creation, and of course, in any form of meaningful magic.

This NLP Energy exercise in conscious movements by Dr Hartmann offers a different path to creating a positive future, one thought at a time.

To put it in a nutshell, you change the conditions in the energy system, and the state change is free of charge and a result, cognitive changes are free and a direct result, and this reflects in changed words and changed language eventually as well.

There is a whole lot more that energy can do for NLP, and how embracing the simple concept of there being energy systems and energy forms can transform the effectiveness of NLP, and finally bring the magic that those who chased language patterns or endless submodality distinctions never managed to achieve.

Read this introduction to NLP and Energy, and why NLP NEEDS energy to evolve further, by Dr Silvia Hartmann.

This is a really interesting and effective use of the NLP concept of "persuading by pre-supposition" and makes article writing into a much more fascinating challenge again, especially with a new produce or what would usually considered to be a "niche" product.