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.

I've observed over the years how people get accused of having a bad attitude, or the wrong attitude and how that gets them into trouble in all sorts of ways.

But what is that? What is an attitude? How do you do that?

I've been using the term attitude in perhaps slightly different way recently.

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 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?

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 an interesting essay written for Mindlist on the eve of the unveiling of the EmoTranceTM system and was posted on 22.05.2002. Historically significant, a good read and very inspirational for creators-to-be!

This is an NLP essay on the development from learner to mastery in NLP, originally written for Mindlist.

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.

I often get asked why I like NLP so much and what the use of it is. How about to have the ability to get 5000 men to go to battle and beat 26000 who were not as congruent - Life and death NLP, if you will. The famous Henry V speech by William Shapespeare is a truly outstanding example of conversational and global timeline work, ordering and structuring internal representations, using values, using outcome frames, eliciting, anchoring and embedding states, looping the whole thing up and by the time he's done, people are ready to do things that are normally beyond comprehension or expectation.

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.