This is one of many stories I fondly remember from my first Practitioner Training. Along with numerous others it's to be found in the Trainer's Version of the "NLP Comprehensive Practitioner Training Manual" as well as in "Is There Life Before Death?"
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Steve recaptures a nice example of how we shape our reality not just with words, but with our behaviors. We create maps with words, and "kinesthetically" – in this example, by how we walk. And then, our creations shape our behaviors!
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Self-Description: Neuro-LINGUISTIC Programming is a lot about words: how they shape our perceptions, our relationships, our abilities, our beliefs and every aspect of our subjective experience.
Here are two very concise and examples from Steve Andreas revealing how they can take part in shaping our self image.
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"To do NLP you need three things: An Outcome, Rapport, and a Ritual." – John Grinder
The fundamentals underlie everything. In our NLP trainings we spend a good deal of time on the essentials of rapport like matching, mirroring, and pacing in various modalities. Here's an example of how a mismatch in just one submodality can be very costly.
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Oh it's summertime, the living is easy, and I'm off to Winter Park for the trainings, wishing you were joining us.
Since you aren't, I have a couple of entertaining and thoughtful stories and metaphors for you. The next few are from the mind of Steve Andreas, and more specifically from his collection of stories "Is There Life Before Death?"
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This week's article reveals some conversational uses of advanced language patterns and advanced submodalities, covered in our Practitioner course on DVD as well as in our LIVE Practitioner Training.
"Last Call!" The 2010 Summer Practitioner Training is filling up. We promised to cap it at 20, and we're getting close.
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Deciding to learn? Can't quite get motivated? Strategies: The Commanding NLP Model
A Story, a Video, a Process, and Announcements Three: This week in NLP!
From the questions and comments I see around the web it's evident that NLP is becoming known more and more as a bundle of "patterns" or "techniques," mostly concerned with some aspect of self-improvement. That is a sadly limited view.
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Which Lines Should You Cross?
By Tom Hoobyar
Article Word Count 1000, average reading time 4 minutes.
Last week we talked about limits — the limits that each of us sets for ourselves on what we can want, and what we can do. I said we'd talk more about how to manage these limits inside ourselves.
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Stopping by the office last Friday the phones were ringing and things were hopping. Unusual for a Friday afternoon, that's for sure, but then interest has been up a lot lately.
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Sometimes people ask, "What is your Spirituality?"
The one answer I am always sure about is gratitude.
The miracle is that you and I are here.
The odds against us were millions to one.
The miracle is that we exist at all.
Everything else is a bonus.
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