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Warning: Are You Trapped in a Thought Virus?

10. September 2007

Mr Wang recently wrote on his blog about the power of thoughts and of ‘S’: When you ask him why he thinks he’s “bad” and “evil”, he says that he has no friends, and therefore he must be “bad” or “evil”; either that, or everyone is “bad” and “evil” for not wanting to be friends with [...]

Who Leads Your Reality?

15. April 2007

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What’s the difference between someone who’s led around by the nose and someone who does the leading? In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we learn about the Law of Prerequisite Variety: the element in any system that has the most flexibility will end up leading the system. Think of little children, they have incredible flexibility. To get you to [...]

The Real Secret Behind Secrets

9. February 2007

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I received an email not too long ago from someone I hadn’t seen in a long time, and it disturbed me. Slightly more than 10 years ago, I first read about NLP from Anthony Robbins’ book Unlimited Power. It opened up my eyes to an exciting new world of powerful skills I never thought could [...]

9 Steps to Transform Stress into Strength

15. August 2006

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If you’ve noticed I didn’t write much the previous week, it’s because work has been crazy and I’ve been under a lot of stress. I’m sure you’ve been there too, haven’t you? So how do we thrive in the midst of stress? How do we transform stress into strength so that when the going gets tough, the [...]

NLP 101: 10 Plus 3 Beliefs That Create Wild Success

7. August 2006

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What is the Structure of Magic? In the 1970s, Richard Bandler and John Grinder set out to answer the questions: ‘how do wildly successful people create their success?’ and ‘can these methods of success be replicated?’. They studied the best therapists of their time, and through observation, testing and trail and error, codified what they found [...]

NLP 101: So Dark The Con Of NLP

5. August 2006

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Throughout history, NLPers have been hunted down by the Evil League of Anti-NLPers, who have waved the Torches of deBunk (+2 agility) at us and angrily shouted big, big words like ‘pesudo-science’, ‘quackery’ and ‘you’re too hot for NLP’ (I get this one all the time). For every claim for NLP, you can find one against. [...]

NLP 101: Life Is A Series of Systems

13. July 2006

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It was confusing; here was this bright, strong young woman who clearly had goals she passionately wanted, but somehow something held her back from going after them. As I worked with her through the roots of her beliefs, I thought we were almost on the way to breaking her limiting patterns and on to action, when [...]

NLP 101: There Are No Resistant Listeners, Only Inflexible Speakers

9. July 2006

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This belief which enabled master therapists like Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir to help people whom other people had labeled ‘hopeless’ is also known as: There are no resistant clients, only inflexible coaches/ therapists/ salespeople/ teachers Also phrased sometimes as: Resistance is a sign of lack of rapport When Lack of Rapport Led Me Resistance This was it. It was [...]

NLP 101: Everyone Already Has All The Resources They Need

7. July 2006

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Had enough rolling your mind over the Pygmalion effect? Because the next NLP presupposition ties in nicely with it: Everyone already has all the resources they need or the ability to get them which also complements nicely the presupposition that people are not broken. Neuro-Linguistic Programming believes that experience has a structure, and that structure is composed out [...]

NLP 101: Experience Has A Structure

5. July 2006

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The next NLP presupposition is a pretty integral one to making things work with Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Experience has a structure Neuro-Linguistic Programming believes that experience has a structure, and that structure is composed out of 5 senses: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory or gustatory. And because every experience is composed out of these same building blocks, so is [...]

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