November 2008

Fear and Uncertainty are stalking the land, if you give em credence!

One of the best DVD’s I have seen for comedy, and real life feel good factors is DodgeBall. Its a comedy masterpiece. But don’t stop feeling the recession fear and uncertainty just yet.

Think about it…

Nothing in life is certain… It never has been.  And its OK to upset the status quo

Yeh, yeh maybe death and taxes are certain, but what about all the rest, what are you doing about it now?

Your state, the sum total of your physical, emotional and bio-chemical and bio-electrical activity may dictate to a large extent what you are going to achieve.

The often horrific truth is you, yes you, you are totally and utterly responsible for how you feel. This effects how you go about your business and operate in this world.

A gem, A jewel of inspiration is Lance Armstrong.

Watch this clip of Dodge Ball for a perspective on reality…

Now I want to invite you do participate in a little experiment. Its all about how you feel. In a nut shell its your feelings, your perspective on reality that MASSIVELY influences how you behave in this world.

This exercise, that I invite you to experience is based on ‘NLP Solitaire’ that my good friend Andy Hunt created. This has a little twist.

I am making a big assumption that your have a bunch of photographs that capture exquisite and inspiring events in your life. Go and find them. Now, find at least 10 photos that capture everything that can be excellent in your life. The very best…

Now for each not so good experience, like the so called recession make one singal representation, a mental image. Experience it fully and completely. Get that negative state. Now before you get something else…

While you can hold that negative state, look at each one of your positive experiences, encapsulated in a photograph, then look at the next photograph. Keep trumping your photos until your old negative state dramatically shifts to something extremely positive. One after another… Keep adding, trumping positive experiences, look at the photos…

Its like top trumps, keep adding excellent photos, one on top of another until you are feeling very good. Repeat the exercise until you are feeling damn positive.

Sorry, but this will not make the world OK. But…

This has the strong possibility of creating a positive state in you. In you. Your state MASSIVELY effects how you act in this world so being in a great, resourceful state will effect how you go about your business in this world.

Do the exercise, repeating it, until you notice a very positive change in how you feel.

When you are feeling really good and positive, start to act, in ways that make a positive difference in your life.

The more you do this, the more you will take positive charge in how you experience the world. The more you do this the more you will create you own positive destiny.

You are totally responsible for how you feel, truth. The way you feel massively influences how you act and operate in the world, which may just lead to how you want to be…

Originally posted from Communicating Excellence

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On the night of October 30th 1938 tens of thousands of Americans listening to the radio were convinced that they were being invaded by Martians. Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre’s production of War of the Worlds caused panic.By clever juxtaposition of the commonplace and cuts to ‘newsflashes about strange eruptions of gas from Mars and mysterious objects landing in Grover’s Mill the play drew people into a convincing story about interstellar invaders.

In a 70th year anniversary edition WYNC Radio Lab’s presented an hour long program analysing the hows and whys of that broadcast. It’s brilliantly done and fascinating listening.

If you are interested in NLP or Hypnotherapy it is a classic example of the skillful use of many processes and ideas familiar to NLPers including Model of the World, pacing and leading, state elicitation, trance induction and more. The program demonstrates the same skill in examining the program as the original broadcast did itself.

The War of the Worlds was an excellent example of how to manipulate public feelings, but you might think that was 70 years ago surely no one could pull it off again. After creating panic very well in 1938, a radio broadcast in Quito, Equador in 1949 created a similar panic much too well with horrific results (but you will have to listen to the program to find out about that).

Then again a variation on a theme in Buffalo, NY in the USA in 1968 pulled off a similar stunt using the same pattern as Orson Wells 30 years earlier.

The program is great and if you are interested in the business of influencing people very instructive.

It’s funny but last night I noticed through my telescope plumes of gas erupting from Mars … of course, it’s probably just a coincidence … probably …

Originally posted on Practical Wellbeing

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Questioning Skills is one of the most useful competencies and skill sets for therapists, coaches, really anyone who is working with others to achieve outcomes and get stuff done.

But it is much more that this. It is about making things happen, quantifying the unknowns and building honest and real motivation that generates ACTION. 18 November 2008.

Nigel Hetherington will be demonstrating how NLP’s Meta Model can be used extremely effectively to gather, create and flesh out action plans to really make things happen. From personal outcomes and goals to large scale business planning the non-therapeutic application of the process is the same.

Come and join this inclusive and structured North East NLP practice group on Tuesday 18th to explore the use of NLP’s meta model to form action plans that actually work.

So if you have some personal outcomes and goals you want to explore and actualise or if you have a business project that you want to turn into a realistic and workable plan come along and learn the process for yourself.

If you are quite serious about developing your skills and coming away with process you can use in the real world then get yourself along and join our friendly, inclusive and growing community.

7-9 pm with all refreshments provided for just £10.00

St. Oswald’s Teaching Centre
Regent Avenue, Gosforth,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1EE

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On Saturday November 22nd we are holding our second NLP Practice day, an opportunity to meet up with other NLPers and practice new stuff and develop your skills.

The day will be structured into four separate sessions, running from 9:30am to 5pm in a new venue in North Shields. Although we haven’t yet confirmed all the topics and presenter’s for the day Andy Hunt will be running a session called ‘What do you want for Christmas?’

If you are on, or have been on, one of IntegrityNLP’s courses the day is FREE of charge otherwise it will cost just £10. You will need to have had some experience of NLP, if you’ve attended an NLP Practitioner Training or one of our Introducing NLP trainings that’s fine, if you’re not sure drop us a line and we can discuss it.

As a special attraction (!) the venue is just a few hundred yards from the Royal Quays retail outlet centre and we’ll be allowing an extra half hour at lunch if you care to do a bit of Christmas shopping.

For more information contact andy@integritynlp.co.uk

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