THEY are coming! THEY are out to get you! THEY are EVERYWHERE!

THEY are always watching your every move, listening to every word you say and THEY will use it against you!

Well, the worm is spiralling ... upwards and more upwards still, so get ready to be ...

Ah you've got to love the game ... it's not the game of thrones these days, it's the game of keywords. Anybody out there ever look for a real honest free NLP Novel?

Well ... if they are ... I've got such a thing!

Multi-tasking - what is that? How does that work? My oldest son recently became a Pa and made the comment that he would now have to learn to multitask as he had to look after the baby for some days of the week. Now I've run a business with a baby on my hip so I know a thing or two about the kind of multi-tasking he's talking about, namely doing more than one thing at a time. However, I learned some harsh lessons on the reality of multi-tasking so I thought this was a good opportunity to put the baby down, place the NLP virtual reality headgear over the left eye and take a look at multi-tasking from the NLP point of view.

Honestly ... People just don't know what they don't know. They presume that what they know is good enough to get by - and I guess it is. To get you "by." By what, I'm not sure; but that's beside the point. The point is that without a thorough understanding of the idiosyncratic intrapersonal nature of metaphor, true happiness can't be found. And that's a fact!

How would you like to learn to feel better, become more successful at what you do, and make life a great deal more interesting and enjoyable all at the same time - with two straightforward NLP style neurological adjustments? As a New Year's present from me to you, here's something about - Unbelievable Success ... :-)

This parts conflict scenario is something that does happen, we are familiar with it, and so we are generally happy to accept the idea that people have "parts". In and of itself, that's already both dubious as well as problematic; where the concept of parts begins to move into insanity is when we start talking in terms of, "The part of me that is my father."

Here is a classic example of a NLP style metaphor teaching story that is also quite hypnotic.

What's particularly cool about it is that this really happened, so it's a true story, just phrased in a slightly more mystical fashion and with the requisite language patterns in place.

Enjoy The Candle ... :-)

Alright, so it's called NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming. What that means is that you can program your neurology with language, the language being the software for the neurology, and the neurology being the hardware that runs the software.

And here comes Bill Gates with a fabulous quote that really does sum up all of NLP in a nutshell.

One - if not actually, THE! - master key to understanding how communication works and how we can use language, state, touch, movement and energy to "influence" what a person thinks and how they feel is to really understand what internal representations are and how they work.

In fact, the contribution Count Alfred Korzybski made when he wrote Science & Sanity and for the first time in human recorded history, laid out how reality, internal representations and language hang together in a "geared mechanism" can simply NOT be underestimated.

NLP language plus a little EmoTrance energy work make for an interesting combination. Here is an article from 2008 on taking apart a sentence about depression, and doing a bit of neuro linguistic programming with it, looking at the presuppositions, and FEELING the energy effects. Cool stuff!

That's an interesting question. The first answer I have to that is that phonological ambiguities are fun and they always make me chuckle inside. Which is not something that one might easily say about a lot of other NLP patterns.

So I guess I better explain what a phonological ambiguity is for the newbies and then we can go on to wonder what they're good for, apart from keeping Silvia amused.

I just had a lovely NLP language/internal representations experience on a German translators forum. The poor guys there were tearing their hair out how to translate this sentence: "As the credit crisis deepens and morphs into uncharted waters, a little perspective is necessary on what it is costing, in both dollars and human terms."

People often ask me what the "most powerful NLP language pattern" is.

The other day I really thought, "Perhaps it's not the language we use, but the language we choose not to use!" and ended up with thought - could it be true that THE most powerful NLP language pattern is actually, SILENCE?"

Something I've noticed a lot on this year's The Apprentice TV Show was and is that the candidates are constantly being hoisted by their own petards - or in other words, their own words are being used as the most devastating weapons against them. The way they are describing themselves is literally delivering the ammunition into the hands of those who want to shoot them down - and the way to avoid that is one of the most basic of all NLP 101s.

This is an interesting story of a short but very powerful NLP intervention which showcases the understanding of presuppositions and language, internal representations and their relationship to words and symbols used to describe them.

It starts with a Catholic nun discovering during an EmoTrance exercise that she had confused the Eucharist with eating chocolate.

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?

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.

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 ...

Named after Herman Melville, proud originator of Moby Dick, the Melville Pattern is a simple yet extraordinary perceptual device which could be mistaken for a language pattern at first sight but is actually quite a bit more than that. Like many wonderful things, it can be used for good or evil depending on the mind who wields it. It can and does unlock frozen tongues, creates an instant response to absolutely anything even if you're totally unoriginal. It can make mincemeat out of writer's block, unlock an endless stream of creativity and it is so simple to do that a child could pick it up within minutes - only as it is a dangerous para-linguistic weapon, we wouldn't want to let our children near it, naturally ...

A short but interesting tale from the "Book of NLP Fairy Tales and Fables" - Silvia style - and a little something for NLPers and NLP language fans to get their mind's teeth into :-).

KaiZen is a fascinating and incredibly successful system. The word stands for "continuous improvement" and is based on the very Zen-like understanding that we are not perfect yet and that whatever we do, create, generate, think up, dream up or come up with, seeing it came from an imperfect being, must by needs be imperfect also.

This is an essay on the topic of how to destroy someone's ability to express themselves and have confidence in their ability to know what they are experiencing and then being able to express their experiences - or, in other words, an NLP investigation into how children at school suffer as their confidence in their own neurological processes is quite literally, being destroyed.

Today, we are welcoming once again, Mr William Shakespeare who will be teaching us about the construction of powerful internal representations for the purposes of changing someone's mind, as well as some very special tips about pacing, tempo and delivery of powerful hypnotic inductions.