This is a classic example of spontaneous NLP Hypnosis in action. Based on a piece of conversational NLP hypnosis change work, the following NLP hypnosis script is designed to overcome a limiting beliefs which are directly created by suggestions or ideas gathered from misunderstanding astrology.

Multi-tasking - what is that? How does that work? My oldest son recently became a Pa and made the comment that he would now have to learn to multitask as he had to look after the baby for some days of the week. Now I've run a business with a baby on my hip so I know a thing or two about the kind of multi-tasking he's talking about, namely doing more than one thing at a time. However, I learned some harsh lessons on the reality of multi-tasking so I thought this was a good opportunity to put the baby down, place the NLP virtual reality headgear over the left eye and take a look at multi-tasking from the NLP point of view.

What's a reframe? Is NLP brainwashing? I got both questions today and I thought, hey we can put those two together into a single article where we can reframe brain washing using NLP and then both questions are answered!

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.

Here are four nice little patterns anyone can try at home right now for their own interest - one NLP/energy pattern "A Little Sound, A Name, A Note ...", one EFT pattern "Useful EFT Add On", one perceptional position pattern "Having A Better Time" and an energetic gestures pattern to change our understanding of "Giving & Receiving". I posted all of those to the StarFields discussion group but as they are rather enjoyable I thought I'd repost them here for NLP visitors to find and have fun with.

Named after Herman Melville, proud originator of Moby Dick, the Melville Pattern is a simple yet extraordinary perceptual device which could be mistaken for a language pattern at first sight but is actually quite a bit more than that. Like many wonderful things, it can be used for good or evil depending on the mind who wields it. It can and does unlock frozen tongues, creates an instant response to absolutely anything even if you're totally unoriginal. It can make mincemeat out of writer's block, unlock an endless stream of creativity and it is so simple to do that a child could pick it up within minutes - only as it is a dangerous para-linguistic weapon, we wouldn't want to let our children near it, naturally ...

I use the following progression to learn new which will eventually lead to me innovating in that new field. You can apply this to anything, including something like an energy therapy system, for example, but it works for everything else - making a new gadget to clean the house with, doing something to transport people that doesn't look like a horseless carriage at last, taking the next necessary developmental step to move NLP along, creating a new Art Nouveau or Bauhaus revolution - well whatever! It all starts somewhere, so here is the first step:

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.

CrimeLine is an NLP TimeLine based recovery and release pattern for use with METs and ET in order to remove limiting decisions in the wake of particular disasters. This pattern is useful for dealing with trauma and anti-triumphs in various topic areas, such as business success or personal relationships to give just two examples.

Going "behind" or "beyond" the actual behaviour in order to establish the behaviour's purpose is a great way to resolve conflicts, because there's always more than one way to skin a cat, especially in NLP. Here is an example to get a single part to change its ways; this is from the excellent Core Transformation process by Connirae Andreas.