I promised some thoughts on how the way in which we use language everyday can generate new possibilities for all of us, our selves and those we interact with. I’m going to start by thinking about how language can be used to link two sets of suppositions.
Think of the linked statements
I would like to [...]
There is always much focus of interest among people interested in NLP and hypnosis in this idea of “conversational hypnosis”, sometimes referred of as “covert hypnosis”. Partly based in the model that all communication is hypnosis, and partly a structured communication model in its own right, it effectively consists of ways of restructuring the subject’s [...]
Very often in NLP or hypnotherapy, approaches focus on “parts”… “parts” integration, getting one “part” of ourselves to communicate with another. It’s a metaphor I employ myself, but it is one I think we have to be very careful of and not allow it to develop potentially toxic overtones. The danger with a “parts” model [...]
There is a lot of hype and a lot of critique out there related to the “Law of Attraction”. Now, I am a pragmatist. I am not so arrogant as to claim direct mystical connection with an understanding of how the universe works (I have strong suspicions and a willingness to play, but certainties, no [...]
Because we do not “see” time, we have to find a way of making sense of it. We tend to understand time spatially, in terms of distance and location. This is clear in the way we use language to talk about time. We talk of the “distant” past, the “far” future. We “look forward” to [...]
Some thoughts on how Robert Dilts’ Logical Levels Model can be applied in hypnotherapy and NLP changework.
One of the least agreed upon, and often hotly debated, aspects of NLP is the concept of Logical Levels. Supposedly derived from the work of Gregory Bateson, and refined into the structure of an NLP model by Robert Dilts, [...]
I have been running a short series of articles on the theme of Coincidence Engineering recently, but this month I want to buck the trend. I am of a mind to discuss a concept that I would like to call emotional “First Aid”.
I will continue the Coincidence Engineering series at a later date, but let’s [...]
“A mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open”
“A mind is like a mouth; in order to work it must close occasionally”
Which of these two metaphors rings truest to you?
We have developed a theme over the last set of posts. The theme is… how do we go about developing our capacity [...]
Last month I wrote about dealing with the unexpected. It is a theme I will return to, but in this post I want to focus on another aspect of Engineering Coincidence – awareness of, and readiness for, opportunity through attending to the information that comes in through the senses.
Opportunity knocks. But if you are not [...]
The following is a script based on the NLP Fast Phobia Cure. It includes some hypnotic language patterns and is designed to be used after a light induction, with some anchors set up in advance that can be fired at the point indicated. If you are not familiar with the NLP concept of eliciting and [...]
