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 ... :-)

What is the shortest distance between two points? It is held to be a direct line but that's NOT the whole NLP metaphor story ... Here we have one of those cases where real reality isn't like modelled reality.

Let me show you a picture to explain.

Here is an example of a simple NLP story which is of course also a metaphor, and an NLP training story about timeline orientation - in time vs through time. With a touch of conversational NLP and hypnosis changework. See if you can track all the patterns in the story, and in the way this NLP story is told. Good luck!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?