
Posted by maureen

Tuesday, Aug. 23rd 2011
If you have an interest in learning more about Neuro linguistic programming, the great news is that you can actually study this subject for free. Needless to say, there are a variety of resources available to most people that public libraries as well as over the Internet through which you can learn a great deal about this particular subject. To the extent money is an issue; you don't necessarily have to spend any if you are willing to be creative and to utilize resources that are freely available. Something that a lot of people oftentimes do is that they will study Neuro linguistic programming to be able to help themselves in one way or another. That is usually how this process starts. You have an issue that needs to be addressed, and so you go about the process of addressing that issue by studying a limited amount of Neuro linguistic programming from sources that are freely available. As your expertise and interest in this particular topic grows, it is not unusual to then branch out and ...
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Posted by maureen

Monday, Jul. 4th 2011
Neuro Linguistic Programming is the process of science related to the human spirit and how we behave on the basis of specific patterns of thought. Based on signals from the human brain, in other parts of the body to react and try to communicate to other thoughts in the form of language. This approach was first known by two psychologists Richard Bandler and John Grinder. The two men discovered in this study, the main purpose of the use of psychotherapy as a treatment for patients with mental illness. Both men were convinced that there was a clear relationship between patterns of thought, language and behavior that comes out as a result of these thought patterns. Slowly they began to create an empirical model based on their assumptions. Although it was initially intended to be used for the treatment of psychotherapy, NLP began to be used for self-help related treatments. NLP then began to be widely used in corporate training. Companies started to provide training to their employees on the concepts available in the model of GNP, which are related to improving the level of employee motivation. Have also been used to improve communication between employees and also ...
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Posted by maureen

Tuesday, May. 3rd 2011
One of the elements that I really struggled with when learning NLP was the lack of accessibility to learn NLP in a structured way at a recognised level in an accessible way. I actually did my first NLP practitioner (to date I have completed 5 of them) over 6 months, giving up every one of my weekends to learn the NLP dark arts.
It was a few years later (while I was training to be an NLP trainer myself) that I wanted to re-take the NLP Practitioner with the added bonus of working with one of the leaders in the field and seeing how this master trained it! This time, as money was not as much as an object as it had been in the early days, I was in the stronger position of being able to run through a 7 day intensive NLP Practitioner Course.
I seriously take my hat off to anyone who learns Neuro Linguistic Programming at an intensive rate. I think if I had not been familiar with Neuro Linguistic Programming when I attended the course, much of the training would have ...
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Posted by maureen

Sunday, May. 1st 2011
This article talked about just one method of Neuro Linguistic Programming to control your mind and that is through anchoring. There are numerous methods in NLP that is sadly beyond the scope of this writing as one article is just not enough to discuss all. Lastly, NLP isn't and shouldn't be expensive, methods like anchoring are great way to stay in budget and improve your life the NLP way. Concentration and focus are the hardest parts in the whole anchoring technique as this is the key to the whole process. There is no way to make anchoring a success if the person cannot immerse him or herself completely to the process. The brain is a muscle that when trained in Neuro Linguistic Programming can do so much more than the ordinary person. After the creation of the anchor the person should completely break out of the state by focusing on doing other things first. Once the person breaks off and the mind is focused on something else, the whole process can be repeated. Then later on, everytime you trigger that anchor either intentionally or not, it ...
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Posted by maureen

Friday, Apr. 29th 2011
The good news is that we all have the same tools available. It is a matter of becoming more aware of our toolbox and then making choices on HOW we are going to implement the tools.
Significant negative emotional experiences create beliefs that are not resourceful and cause us to focus on what we do not want.
Since the mind takes whatever you focus on as an instruction to create something, this is not resourceful.
To get what you want, you have to focus on what you want and have beliefs that tell your mind to create that result.
There are several kinds of internal representations you could make:
1. Visual
2. Auditory
3. Kinesthetic
4. Gustatory
5. Olfactory
6. Auditory Digital, which is internal dialogue words and sentences you say in your head.
You have a constant stream of sensory stimuli coming at you, which is filtered, and then you make a continuing stream of internal representations, which occur in sequences called strategies.
And though you are aware of some of this, most of it - and I mean 99% of it- is going outside your conscious awareness, automatically, moment by moment, for your whole ...
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