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 ...

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!

NLP modeling is a fine thing.

Once you get your head around how it works, there are opportunities for modelling excellence everywhere.

There are strategies and patterns that people do which are blatantly so much successful that what you might be using yourself that you take one look at that and say, "Yes! That's brilliant! I'm going to do exactly what he's doing - it's working, and I want it to work for me, as well!"

One such NLP modelling derived models is the above "Alex Model". It is truly brilliant, and brilliantly useful in 1001 situations us modern folk find ourselves in on a regular basis.

"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 ...?

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.

Now for something really useful, extremely neat and quite delightful in every way - the hypno-sleep spiral.

This is a very, very cool pattern to help someone get to sleep at night by entering into consecutively deeper and deeper trance states, ending up with hypno-sleep that turns into natural sleep by itself; but there's a lot more to this self hypnosis pattern than meets the eyes.

In the movie Dumbo, the clowns are having a conversation. They're talking about their act, and they say, "If the audience laughs like crazy if we throw the elephant of a 7 story building, they're going laugh even harder when we throw it off a 10 story building! A thirty story building - we'll make a killing! The greatest act that ever was!"

The fact is that they are wrong.

It can happen that unwanted internal representations "flash up" repeatedly, even though one may try one's best to think of something else, or to ignore the internal representation. There are also internal representations that could be based on memories, and a particularly unhelpful class of these are "future fears" - making internal representations of traumatic events in the future that haven't happened yet.

The Quantum X Grenade pattern is a last resort technique to destroy the entire thoughtfield and to take it out altogether, rather than attempting to change it in any way, which is the more usual cause of action.

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!

To control exactly where in time the consciousness travels, or in other words, where to place one's attention in past, present or future, is a movement of consciousness that is one of the core skills in reality creation, and of course, in any form of meaningful magic.

This NLP Energy exercise in conscious movements by Dr Hartmann offers a different path to creating a positive future, one thought at a time.