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NLP 101: 10 Plus 3 Beliefs That Create Wild Success

7. August 2006

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 [...]

NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate: The Pygmalion Effect

4. July 2006

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Something came to me so obviously connected with the NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate post that I regret not putting it up. Have you ever heard of the Pygmalion effect? It refers to situations in which people perform better than other people simply because they are expected to do so. In a study conducted by Robert [...]

NLP 101: People Are Not Broken

28. June 2006

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People are not broken In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we believe that people are not broken, and they work perfectly. For example, a phobia is normally considered a ‘bad’ thing, someone who has an irrational phobia of envelopes is considered ‘broken’. But the phobia works perfectly, there is never an instance when the phobia doesn’t work. If you [...]

NLP 101: People are Always Making The Best Choices They Have

24. June 2006

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If I told you that one of the key presuppositions in Neuro-Linguistic Programming was: People are always making the best choices they have you might think I was off my rocker. “Alvin,” you might say, “what about people who abuse their bodies with drugs and alcohol, take it out on their kids, and listen to euro-trance? You can’t [...]

NLP 101 Thoughts: You Cannot Not Change The World

19. June 2006

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I was musing over the last NLP presupposition I talked about; ‘You Cannot Not Communicate‘, when I asked myself this question: ‘what if it was taken to its extreme; “You Cannot Not Change The World” instead?’ Now, I don’t mean this in a kooky, touchy-feely kind of way, but I think it might be an interesting [...]

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NLP 101: Everyone Already Has All The Resources They Need

NLP 101: Experience Has A Structure

NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate: The Pygmalion Effect

NLP 101: People Are Not Broken

NLP 101: People are Always Making The Best Choices They Have

NLP 101 Thoughts: You Cannot Not Change The World

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