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.

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.