Logical Levels & The Genius Symbols

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:01:16 +0100

Understanding logical levels, what they are, how they work, and finding your way around the logical levels of a problem, system or ecology with accuracy and ease is a very important part of sorting information in such a way that it becomes USEFUL.

This article contains an introduction to the concept of logical levels as it is used in NLP, using the example of The Genius Symbols, and a logical levels diagram.

Bill Gates Quote Is NLP In A Nutshell

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:45:56 +0000

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.

Hypnotic Poem: Relax

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:17:22 +0000

What is the difference between a poem and a hypnotic induction? I don't think there is one. Both should take charge of the readers/listeners/subjects internal representations and take them wherever the poet or hypnotist wants to take them. Here is an example of a relaxation induction, rendered as a hypnotic poem, and suitably entitled, "Relax!"

NLP Diagram: The Map Is Not The Territory

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:46:04 +0000

The Map Is Not The Territory ... in this much quoted NLP basic statement lies not just a world of possibilities, but as many worlds of possibilities and potential as there are people who are making maps of the territory.

Here is a NLP diagram illustrating the basic principle of map and territory (also known as the "NLP Head"), internal representations, intrapersonal reality and how it comes to be that if we change someone's internal representations, we change their world.

NLP Internal Representations: The Alpha & Omega Of Communication Excellence

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:50:33 +0000

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 & Energy Examples & Exercises

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:31:24 +0000

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!

Phonological Ambiguities - What Are They Good For?

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:09:38 +0000

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.

NLP Story: Timeline Orientation In Time VS Through Time

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:46:33 +0000

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!

Singing NLP Reframe Plus

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:08:05 +0100

Once in a while, I have a little outburst with my NLP hat on. I do love it when that happens! NLP is SUCH fun, and simple things like the NLP reframe can be taken to SUCH extremes - and then it's even more fun. Now, to business. There is something more scary than public speaking. And that's ... singing in public!

Apart from basic NLP reframing, there are another happy dozen NLP patterns employed in this short sequence. See if you can spot them all - and if not, just lay back and enjoy!

NLP Patterns - How To Build A New NLP Pattern

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:33:57 +0100

How do you build new NLP patterns?

The simple answer is by modeling a strategy of some kind, and create a basic NLP model. Then you test it, refine it, write it up in a step-by-step fashion and so the model becomes a pattern.

Many people think that the first step to NLP modeling is ...

Mapping Across - Bug Fixing Your Mind

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:28:44 +0100

NLP Modeling is one thing - where you take a strategy that works in a particular context and you duplicate the strategy so that when you run it, you get the same beneficial outcomes as the original upon whom the model was based. A simple example of straight NLP modelling can be found here.

However, NLP modeling becomes much more fun and much more multi-dimensional when we extract a pattern and map it across to a completely different situation, environment or modality.

Here is an example of mapping across a strategy from bug fixing a piece of software to bug fixing your mind!

Limitations of NLP?

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:02:09 +0100

This question arrived just now: What are the limitations of NLP?

I shall have a go in good faith to discuss "the limitations of NLP".

Help! My Boyfriend Is Into NLP!

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:42:14 +0100

This morning, I got a contact form which went something like this.

Help! My boyfriend attended an NLP seminar recently and ever since then, he's become creepy and I don't know if I like him anymore.

What can I do???

NLP People Needed In The Movie Business - Urgent!

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:01:21 +0100

I've just written a review for the Harry Potter movie Harry Potter & The Half Blood Prince.

My biggest complaint is that the colours are dark and dingy, and there isn't enough LIGHT in this movie - practically as well as metaphorically.

Every NLP practitioner KNOWS from day 1 of their NLP training that ...

The Most Powerful NLP Language Pattern Is

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:36:00 +0100

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?"

Physiology Is The Royal Road Into State - The Game

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:38:38 +0100

"Physiology Is The Royal Road Into State" - that's a beloved NLPers saying and what it means, if you don't know, is that you can create state (how you feel/think/experience) by putting your physiology aka your body into certain positions.

Want to have some real good NLP fun with a neat state and physiology game ...?

The Apprentice - NLP 101

Thu, 28 May 2009 23:11:43 +0100

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.

How To Be A Better NLP Hypnotist: The Top Ten Tips

Sun, 03 May 2009 16:46:36 +0100

People are always asking me what they can do to be a better NLP style hypnotist, which includes how to do better self hypnosis as well as conversational hypnosis, and what is known as covert hypnosis. Here are my top ten tips how to be a better NLP hypnotist.

NLP Take On Practice & Drill

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:15:56 +0100

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?

NLP Presuppostion Exercise

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:08:13 +0100

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.

Utilization - A Life Saving Skill

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:17:14 +0100

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!

NLP Persuasion By Pre-Supposition: The Curious Case Of Shan Zin Wah

Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:29:17 +0000

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.