NLP Gems – [6] You cannot not communicate

Human beings are constantly communicating. We are all tied into one another at some  social context. We are all tuned in to each other in one way or another. We are forever interpreting our experience of what’s there, whether it is through a look, or a word or two or our behaviour. We also interpret what…

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NLP Gems – [5] Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention.

This core presupposition of NLP seems to provoke many a strong reaction in people on their first introduction to presuppositions of NLP. Of all the NLP presuppositions, this one is perhaps the most frequently misunderstood and many people object to this statement. As used in NLP, “Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention” is…

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NLP Gems – [4] People already have all the resources they need in order to effect a change and succeed

Most of us have the same nervous system and set of senses to interpret and respond to what is going around us. All that we experience has a structure, and that structure is derived from our  senses: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory or gustatory). Therefore if every experience is composed…

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NLP Gems – [1] “The Map is Not the Territory”

Your thinking and your physiology are closely tied together. What this means is that it is your thinking that affects how you feel at all times. Conversely your feelings affect how you think at all times. A good communicator with good sensory acuity can fine-tune their communication, by simply tuning into the way other people…

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NLP the secret tool of Champions and Superstars.

Many people have asked me to summarise what NLP is, so over the next few weeks  here is my take – feel free to correct me or add to this by posting me your comments. In the mid 1970’s a new communication technology began to evolve. It was called NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming -…

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