NLP Anchoring – you decide when to be happy

NLP Anchoring – you decide when to be happy Sometimes you hear people talking about how others know how to push their buttons, tug their chain, how to influence them.  Maybe someone will say or something and this will provoke automatic response in you. In NLP that is called Anchoring. The key is to change […]

Get out of your Comfort Zone

Get out of your Comfort Zone This is your comfort zone.  You know it.  It’s comfortable in here. It is otherwise known as the Grey Zone.  Grey is a good name for it isn’t it?  Grey, it’s just grey.  Not black, not white, just grey…. It is the place that most people would like you […]

30 Seconds to Motivation

30 Seconds to Motivation It is amazing isn’t it how we can each describe the details of an event differently.  A way that is unique to each of us as individuals. If we were to change the way that we describe an experience to ourselves would that change the experience? Submodalities is a word used […]

Build Rapport and your success – NLP

Rapport - NLP

One of the major things that master communicators all have in common is the ability to get into rapport with their audience. Whether you are communicating on a one to one basis or if you are communicating to a group. Whether it be in education, business or therapy, rapport is a very important process.  In […]

Sensory Acuity – Be aware of your influence

Sensory Acuity

What is Sensory Acuity? Well the clue is in the title, it is the capacity that we have to be acutely aware through our senses. Through sound, vision, feeling, that sense of what is going on around you in the moment whilst noticing minute changes in people in front of you. When we apply our […]

Empowering belief for better communication – NLP

Further empowering belief - communication skills

The meaning of the communication is not simply what you intend, but also the response that you get. You may have heard people say something like, ‘if you do not like what i have to say then that is your problem.’ I would suggest that is not the best form of communication possible. If two […]

Four steps to ecological NLP goals

Ecological goals

So, you know where you are heading, you have written your goals. It’s good to write goals, isn’t it?  Goals give us direction in life, a purpose. But wait, have you considered ecology? Are your goals ecological? From experience I can tell you that, in the majority of cases people set goals without fully exploring […]

Five NLP Principles for success

Five NLP Principles for success

  5 NLP Principles of Success How do we ensure that our behaviours empower us and will enable us to achieve our goals? Well, we talked recently about the NLP communication model, and that how we filter information that comes to us determines our internal representations, which in turn results in our behaviour. So the […]

Trying – NLP Frame

Trying

Personal development and growing as an individual is all about trying new things isn’t it?  Well, no actually. I accept the statement largely, flexibility of behaviour is very important, the Law of Requisite Variety being one of the presuppositions of NLP, however I have a problem with the word “trying”. Do me a favour. Try […]

Not happy? NLP Internal Representations

NLP Internal Representations | Happiness | Blog

You may not want to hear it but happiness is a choice.  We choose to be happy or we choose not to be happy. It doesn’t feel like you’ve got a choice most of the time though does it? Happiness seems to be dependent on whether or not good things happen to us, or not […]