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NLP - 3 Qualities That Makes Anthony Robbins A Master at Changing Lives With NLP

NLP - 3 Qualities That Makes Anthony Robbins A Master at Changing Lives With NLP
By Emmanuel Segui

A lot of people have different opinions about Anthony Robbins. Some find in him a guide, a mentor, a guru even. Other people think he's just fake and really can't stand him.

I'm not here to speak about his products or the way he's marketing himself. There is much more than that that a lot of people are missing. Next time to listen to him, see him on YouTube or TV, look at the person himself and the qualities he embodies. The guy, and not necessarily his products or marketing efforts, is simply superb and amazing.

He embodies 3 qualities that, if you have them, will give you all the power you need to do anything you want in your life. And that's what people are missing. They go see his seminars; they buy his CDs for knowledge, transformation and inspiration, but they don't see Tony himself, a man of passion, commitment and humor.

1. Passion. At the end of every CD, book or speech, he encourages people to live with passion. And he's absolutely congruent, because he is a man of passion. Can you say the same thing about yourself? If not, what stops you from living with passion? What can you do today to start living with passion? I'm curious about the steps you're going to take today to start or continue living with passion.

2. Commitment. Tony struggled to pay his bills and lived without any direction in his early days. But he became determined to change his life and committed to change lives of others. Today, you can see his commitment everywhere. This kind of commitment allowed him to write best seller books, create CDs that have transformed millions of lives around the world and over the years, put together seminars, donate millions of dollars and more. Do you have this kind of commitment? If yes, can you show me something today that can prove me that you are committed to change your life and other people's lives as well?

3. Humor. I find in Tony a great sense of humor when he's on stage on during interviews. Humor allows you to be more creative, find new opportunities or possibilities along the way. Do you have humor? What kind of humor do you have? Do you like to smile and have fun? Do you take yourself too seriously? Seriously, why can't we have a little fun? Is something stopping you from having a little more fun in your life?

Commitment, passion and humor will allow you to live an extraordinary life. If you lead yourself and others with commitment, passion and humor, you're leading from the heart.

And if you want to know more about leading from the heart and how to lead a life of passion and compassion, you can download a free report entitled "Leadership of The Future: Leadership from The Heart" at http://www.heartslead.com

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NLP The Magic Ingredient to Transform People's Lives and Influence More People With NLP

NLP The Magic Ingredient to Transform People's Lives and Influence More People With NLP
By Emmanuel Segui

A lot of people try to find more tricks, tools and techniques all the time to persuade better, influence more people, and often without integrity.

They don't realize that they possess the most marvelous tool that exists to play magic and change lives in minutes. What is extraordinary about this tool is that everybody has it but they yet are searching for something else. They possess a magic wand and they don't even know it.

Richard Bandler and John Grinder, the co-founders of neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, said "The webs that you can tie and untie are at your command if only you pay attention to what you already have"

What you already have is called language. The magic, with which you can handle complaints, excuses, and general non-sense with elegance, is hidden in the language we speak. You can influence and persuade more people, with integrity or not as a matter of fact, if you learn how to use words to change minds.

Neuro-linguistic programming, or NLP, has created numerous tools to develop your word wizardry skills to speak with more sizzle and power. You can become a word magician.

The first model, developed by the co-founders of NLP, is called the NLP meta-model of language and precision. This model has served as a basis for all the other tools that NLP has developed through the years. The NLP meta-model has been expanded and the "sleight of mouth" patterns have emerged. These patterns have been developed by Robert Dilts, main developer in the field of NLP.

Then the NLP meta-programs have given birth of "the language of influence and the LAB profile, another powerful way to persuade and influence with integrity. Then the "sleight of mouth" patterns themselves have been revisited, expanded and gave birth to an advanced NLP model: the mind lines, which are patterns or lines for changing minds.

All of these "tools" are using the magic that is hidden in the language we speak everyday. Mastering it is equivalent of casting spells and performing magic. The language we speak can truly transform lives.

And you can find more tools to become a true leader and influence people from the heart. You can download now a free report entitled "Leadership of the Future: Leadership From The Heart" at http://www.heartslead.com

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Emmanuel Segui - http://www.opportunitytogrow.com

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NLP Framework - Content Vs Process

NLP Framework - Content Vs Process
By Steve Bauer

As you progress in learning and mastering NLP, you'll come across the content-process distinction in a number of books and seminars. This distinction is one of the lynchpins of NLP and "experts" are constantly debating where the boundary falls between content and process. How can we understand what they are talking about? What is content? What is process? Let's use a metaphor to start understanding this.

Imagine a bag of apples. We'll use this bag of apples as our example for content.

Now, imagine a fork, a blender and a juicer. We'll use these tools as our example for process.

An apple can be processed in many different ways. Among them, you can squash them with a fork, you can purée them using a blender and you can juice them with a juicer. All the time, the content will remain the same: apples. But the way you process the apples will change the final outcome.

Now take this analogy over to thinking.

What you think is the content. How or the way you think it is the process.

Let's take a lightly uncomfortable example. Let's say you had an argument with a teacher when you were a kid and that episode marked you and let's suppose that you keep rethinking that episode over and over, seeing a movie of your teacher arguing with you and hearing his voice in your memory.

The argument itself is the content. The movie and the voice is the process.

What would happen if you started processing the argument differently. First of all, accelerate the speed of the movie lightly, so that it's playing at twice the speed. Next, blur it a bit and dim the lighting on the image. Next, pay attention to the accelerated voice, which is starting to sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Accelerate the whole thing until the sounds fades into a hum and the movie just becomes white light.

Now, how do you feel about it?

You altered the process, you altered the emotional outcome.

Now, why is this distinction important?

In most forms of changework, the therapist seeks to alter the content of his client's thoughts. Returning to our apples analogy, the therapist would suggest that his client process oranges or bananas. Sometimes, this is just not possible or even ethical. It might mean imposing or forcing your view of the world and your beliefs on someone else. Working on process makes it possible to retain full integrity and respect of the client's model of the world while allowing content shifts to occur naturally and spontaneously.

The motivational cliché "if life sends you lemons, make lemonade" illustrates the content-process distinction quite appropriately. Shift the process and you'll shift the outcome.

When we start speaking of modality distinctions in future posts, you'll learn all the ways in which you can modulate your own and other people's thinking processes.

Meanwhile, begin playing with the content-process distinction. Let's try a few games:

1. Process the thought of a train through your kinesthetic or "feeling" channel.
2. Process the thought of your mother through your olfactory or "smell" channel.
3. Process the thought of your final exams through your gustatory or "taste" channel.
4. Process the thought of your favorite food through your auditory or "hearing" channel.
5. Process the thought of water rehydrating all of your body cells through your visual or "seeing" channel.

Give these exercises a shot and let me know what you discovered!

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NLP - The Difference That Makes The Difference That Nobody Understands

NLP - The Difference That Makes The Difference That Nobody Understands
By Emmanuel Segui

In the world of self-improvement, we hear a lot about visualization and affirmation. Each person has his own philosophy about these 2 techniques. There are even numerous books on just these 2 techniques and the authors of these courses claim that just these 2 techniques will change your life.

Well, first of all, if it was that simple, everybody would be successful, or at least 60% of the population, since about 60% of people are visual and can therefore perform visualization effectively. But studies show that 3% of the population actually achieves their goals.

So 2 questions came to my mind: "are all these courses wrong?" and "Is everything about this visualization thing hype?"

Well, let me give you an answer that will change the way you see and understand visualization. That's something that is not taught anywhere else. I actually found that distinction after many years of research.

The secret is this, and I want you to understand this, because if you do, you will live better lives and achieve your goals every time.

And I don't want to make a course about it and charge $97 for that, like lots of gurus, or so called gurus, will do. No it's free, free information, for you to digest. I also don't want you to bang your head against the wall when you're going to discover that. Yes, it is that simple.

The secret is not in the picture you visualize, because everybody visualize pictures but nobody, or close to nobody, seems to enjoy life at its fullest.

The secret lies in the quality of the pictures you visualize. You see, your pictures have different characteristics: brightness, contrast, luminosity, location or size.

If you want to lose weight, most of the self-improvement courses will teach you to visualize yourself at your ideal weight. Good. That's the first step. And then they leave you, and then you don't lose weight. The second step consists of verifying the quality of this picture and adjusts it so you feel compelled by it.

But how you do that? Well, the field of Neuro-linguistic programming or NLP has developed a model called the NLP submodality model. A submodality corresponds to the quality you give to the images, sounds and feelings you represent or visualize. A visual modality would be the size of the picture, or whether this picture is far away from you or close to you. Also, the NLP submodality model will ask you this question: "Is your picture in color, or black and white, what is its location, is it in movement, like a movie, or is it more of a snapshot?"

All these questions invite you to reflect on this representation of yourself at your ideal weight.

The beauty is that everything you represent in your mind is like a movie and you're capable of editing this movie. That's the second step that nobody talks about: "Edit the picture or the movie of yourself at your ideal weight". The goal is to edit it so much and so precisely that you feel compelled and you feel like you have no other choice than eating well, because this is such a wonderful state to be in. You want to become like the picture, full of colors, in movement, in front of you and with other qualities that you determine; because this is your life, your submodalities, which are really meta-modalities...

Create a picture, make simple adjustments to this picture and you will see a brighter future coming to you at lightning speed.

And now, I would like to offer you my famous NLP 5-part mini-course "Discover the TOP 5 secrets of EVERY highly successful Person to Achieve What You Want" today at http://www.vision-to-action.com

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NLP - You Can Change Your Life Using This Ultra Simple Trick

NLP - You Can Change Your Life Using This Ultra Simple Trick
By Emmanuel Segui

This title got your attention, didn't it? Well, first of all, this is not a trick and it is not a simple as it seems.

Well, it could be actually. If a trick is something that magicians use to perform magic and surprise people, and at the beginning even themselves, I guess, you can say that you can change your life using this simple trick.

This simple trick is called "language". Indeed, when you use language, and everybody can afford to learn more about how to use language more effectively, you can cast spells, perform magic and change your life in a matter of minutes; in certain cases, in a matter of seconds.

By using language, you can reframe your ideas, beliefs and understandings about life so it serves you and empowers you to become more successful. By using language you can change limiting beliefs and limiting thinking that stops you from success, abundance and happiness in your life.

When you become aware of your language and your thoughts, you can just stop for a moment, look at what you just said or thought and cast some spells with simple questions that can change your day.

For example, and I will use part of the NLP communication model to do that, if you catch yourself saying: "I have to do ...such and such", ask yourself these questions: "Do I really have to do this?" "What will happen if I don't do this?" "What will happen if I do this?" "What won't happen if I do this? "What won't happen if I don't do this?"

These are not questions you asked yourself very often, that's for sure. One marvelous consequence about asking yourself a lot of questions, especially if you just happen to feel a strong negative emotion, is that as you step back and ask yourself these questions, the negative emotions has already diffused, even if you didn't succeed at answering all these questions. It serves as a diversion technique that will enable you to focus on something else for a moment. And when you come back to the previous experience, you ask yourself: "Why was I angry about already?"

This simple technique can change your day, in a matter of seconds, if you ask yourself good questions. A good question? But what is a good question? What would happen if I ask myself bad questions? "What would happen if I don't ask myself good questions?" Wow! That's a good question, isn't it? I will let you answer and leave you with that message.

There is no secret. And there is no ultimate secret neither. There are just simple concepts or patterns that we're not aware of yet. And when you become aware of them, your life changes and if you could picture "change" as a diagram, or a curve, it would grow exponentially.

And now, I would like to offer you my famous NLP 5-part mini-course "Discover the TOP 5 secrets of EVERY highly successful Person to Achieve What You Want" today at http://www.vision-to-action.com

And I also would like to share with you a Free Special Report entitled Leadership of The Future: Leadership From The Heart that will teach you how you can become a whole, stress-free and healthy leader today at http://www.heartslead.com/

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NLP Framework - 4 Areas Of Key Activities

NLP Framework - 4 Areas Of Key Activities
By Steve Bauer

To make sense out of the mish-mash of NLP-related material you will go through, you'll find it useful to categorize the areas of activities tied to NLP.

This article will be very short and to the point but nevertheless one of the most important I will post. The distinctions you learn in this one will allow you to map out your areas of learning in NLP.

With that said, let's get to our 4 areas:

1. NLP Modeling

This is THE main area of NLP, as I've constantly harped on since starting this blog. NLP You're modeling any time you're coding behavioral patterns into explicit strategies or models, more specifically the behavior of geniuses who produce outstanding results in a specific field. You can also be said to be modeling when you craft useful descriptions or maps of phenomena that you observe (for instance, eye movements tied to the use of a specific representational system).

2. NLP Design

As you become more proficient in modeling, you will inevitably be drawn to design. You are designing any time you're using NLP variables to create new patterns with the intent of producing a specific result. For example, you might design a specific sequence of sentences that trigger specific sensory channels whose goal is to persuade a client to buy a house.

3. NLP Installation

Installation has to do with the actual "Programming" of NLP. You're installing whenever you're transferring, conditioning or programming a pattern in yourself or another person using anchoring, hypnotic language, chaining states or any combination of the former. For instance, you're installing when you run someone through a swish pattern.

4. NLP Training

Training deals with teaching specific skills to a student. Either you're training or you're being trained. You're training whenever you're explaining, describing or exemplifying a specific pattern or model for a student to learn how apply that specific pattern or model. While writing or reading this blog can't exactly be considered training, it would fall in this generic category. This is what we've been doing together all along.

Now, don't take all of this for cash. These categories don't really exist. I just made them up because they make learning NLP much easier. They help you to understand what's going on and serve as a crutch to make sense of the patterning coming your way.

Ideally, as you progress in learning NLP, you'll create your own categories (your models). Please share your models with other learners as it will enrich and stimulate your learning even more.

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NLP Skills - 4 Skills You Must Constantly Work On

NLP Skills - 4 Skills You Must Constantly Work On
By Steve Bauer

Since you're learning Neurolinguistic Programming, you'll find it worthwhile to focus your efforts on the skills that will result in your greatest competence in the shortest amount of time. In this article I'll list 5 NLP skills that you should constantly focus on developing.

So let's look immediately at the first one:

1. Calibration

This skill enables you to "read" people. Have you ever met someone who claimed to know how you were feeling or what you were thinking but was completely wrong? This happened because that person didn't calibrate to your state appropriately. Calibration is the process by which you link a person's state to the physiology being displayed at any point in time. You'll see spectacular calibration taking place at the World Poker Championships. Each poker player is constantly looking for other players' "tells", the little quirky behaviors that give away how they're feeling about their cards, whether they're bluffing or they have a strong game.

2. Detecting patterns

NLP revolves around patterns. As such, to be a successful NLP Practicioner, you must always look out for patterns. But what exactly is a pattern? Let's allow Gregory Bateson, one of the godfathers of NLP, to answer that question (as taken from Whispering in the Wind, by John Grinder and Carmen Bostic St Clair):

any aggregate of events or objects (e.g. a sequence of phonemes, a painting, or a frog or a culture) shall be said to contain a "redundancy" or a "pattern" if the aggregate can be divided in any way by a "slash mark" such that an observer perceiving only what is on one side of the slash mark can guess with better than random success, what is on the other side of the slash mark.... Or, again from the point of view of a cybernetic observer, the information available on one side of the slash will restrain) i.e. reduce the probability of) wrong guessing.

This simply means that when you can predict from one piece of behavior what will happen next, you have detected a pattern. For example, let's say you notice that every time your uncle comes home, he immediately heads to the kitchen to have a cup of tea. You observe this behavior once, twice, three times and yet again. The next time your uncle arrives at home, you predict he will head to the kitchen to have a cup of tea - and he does! Congratulations! You have detected a pattern.

Now you must apply this skill to detecting the patterns of excellence of outstanding performers.

3. Questioning

The quality of the information you can gather directly correlates to the quality of question you ask. Work on your questioning skills constantly? How can you become more precise? How can you become more involving? What specifically does the other person mean when she says "just feel the beat"? The Meta-Model offers simple and useful tools that will assist you in beefing up your questioning skills. I'll talk about the Meta-Model in greater detail soon.

4. Reading eye accessing cues

If you haven't yet come across information on eye accessing cues, do a search on Google for the phrase "eye accessing cues." I believe that only NLP uses such terminology to describe this skill. Once you master reading eye accessing cues, you'll effectively track the thinking process of those you interact with. You'll be able to understand whether they're accessing their visual, auditory or kinesthetic channel.

Of course these aren't the only skills you must exercize to develop your NLP skills. These five answers offer a solid pointer as to where you should focus your attention. Practice! Every day!

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NLP Cause And Effect - A Powerful Language Pattern For Persuasion And Covert Hypnosis

NLP Cause And Effect - A Powerful Language Pattern For Persuasion And Covert Hypnosis
By Nathan Thomas

I love these, these are by far my favourite linguistic pattern.

I use them when doing self hypnosis, covert hypnosis and when I have practiced some overt hypnosis.

Cause and effect, also known as linguistic bridges, run on the basic pattern whereby one action causes another action:

"you reading this causes you to become even more focused on what you are seeing." another great pattern for linguistic Bridges is the bind, The more you perform one action the more you perform another action.

"The more you read this post the happier you become"

You can also slightly alter the structure of this by using pretty much any substitute for the word "more", any adverb, like the faster, the quicker, the slower, The sooner, the later, an anything else that ends in ER:

"The sooner you think of more binds the faster your hypnotic skills grow."

Another great way to use cause and effect is the "as you" pattern. "as you read this you can notice how slowly you are breathing, and how nice is it is to slow down even more."

You can also use words such as "when", "as soon as", "at the point when", "instead of "as". Note the use of temporal presuppositions.

Also become aware of the use of the awareness presupposition on the word "notice" awareness presuppositions are great for cause and effect patterns, here are some more examples, "Notice, realise, become aware, (any sense, see, hear etc")

I expect that most of you reading this will have heard of the famous photo copier test, basically to test the effectiveness of cause and effect patterns researchers recorded their success in cutting in line at a busy photocopier, The first group just asked if they could cut in, with a surprisingly good success rate, the second group asked if they could cut in 'BECAUSE they were in a rush, and had about a 100% increase in success.

the third group asked of they could cut in line "BECAUSE they need to make some copies", and this worked as well as group number two, using the word because, no matter what follows, gives the impression of a reason, and vastly increases the chances of being said yes to.

Now lets combine a few,

" As you read this you can begin to notice a faint glow of happiness tucked away in the back of you mind, and as you identify this faint feeling you can begin to focus on it, and notice how it carries your mind back to the memory where it comes form. And as you become aware that the more you focus on this happy memory, the move it takes shape and the more it carries your mind back, so that you can realize that you do truly feel like you are in that happy memory.

This causes the glow of happiness to begin to brighten and as you focus on the brightening glow it glows still brighter, and the uplifting feeling starts now in your stomach, and as it enhances and moves up to you chest and head, this makes you feel real good because your unconscious mind has accepted that it is now the time to focus on the positive things in your life, and let them grow, and as the positive feeling grows and enhances still further, and as the glow of happiness in your stomach and chest gets turned up you can begin to realise the effectiveness of cause and effect patterns.

That was an example I may use in a hypnosis related context, but in an every day situation these can be useful as well.

Any action that someone else does can be used to piggy back in another suggestion, if they are doing any action cause and effect can make them do another.

it can be as simple breathing "as you notice your breathing you can begin to breath deeper and feel the relaxation this causes"even walking "as we are walking up the road we may wish to stop at the shop"

And especially in sales"as you came here you obviously are unhappy with your old X, which causes you to want a new X, naturally you should realize that this X is the X for you" Try and use a more natural substitute for "which causes" when you use these, depending on the context certain phrases are more suitable than others

So get out there and use these simple, undetectable language patterns in your everyday interaction, and notice as everything that happens causes you to get what you want.

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NLP Framework - The Power Of Your Model Of The World

NLP Framework - The Power Of Your Model Of The World
By Steve Bauer

When was the last time you sat down and examined your model of the world, in an effort to make it work more effectively for you? Have you ever compared your model with others, to see if you could find modifications that would make yours:

• guide you to more effective actions?
• allow you a more pleasant experience of life?
• give you more confidence in dealing with other people?

If you are now asking yourself, "What the heck is he talking about?", you'll really benefit from reading this article.

Although you may have an inkling of what the term "model" refers to in this context, it should be explained here to remove all doubt. Your personal model of reality, or model of the world, is a combination of remembered experiences and a collection of word-based descriptions to which you compare your ongoing experience to figure out what to do next in a specific ongoing situation.

Your model of the world is unique, in that the remembered experiences that contribute to it are yours alone. Although it contains word-based descriptions, and many of them are references to those experiences, your model of the world is exactly that.

Its content (for the word-based part) depends largely on decisions you made in the past. Those decisions defined which descriptions you would incorporate, and which you would set aside. Why is it that some people see life as a "constant struggle", while to others it is "a breeze"? Why do some people "accept fate", while others "make their own destiny"? It depends on the descriptions contained in the word-based portion of their model of the world.

I will reiterate that what makes your model of the world unique and personal is the experience part. The descriptions can be made available to everyone, but no one has shared all the separate experiences which contribute to your model of the world.

Now, setting aside the personal experience part, let's examine models from the perspective that they are a set of instructions and maps you refer to for guidance in all your activities. Your model of the world is organized in sets, from a mega-model (the nature of the world in general) on one extreme, to micro-models (concerned with the smallest bits of information relevant to a particular event or experience).

The mega-model is the most susceptible to errors, mistakes or misjudgments, since it contains descriptions of many things you may have never witnessed first-hand, and uses a lot of generalizations and intangibles. Micro-models, on the other hand, are more specific, and usually refer to objects and events verifiable in sensory experience.

A weak analogy for the arrangement of mega and micro-models is a book. Micro-models would be the letters which build the words in the sentences that make the paragraphs, pages, chapters, etc. The mega-model would be the book itself... the container for all the various micro-models. In short, your mega-model is your own personal encyclopedia, containing everything you know about reality.

The elements within the mega-model are accessed contextually, through strings of associations, and are either experiential or informational in nature. We'll discuss this further when we talk about communication. Most of the elements within this micro-model are experiential in nature; the "instructions" within this micro-model are not in language, but are patterns of stored sensory experience, a template, if you will, which guide you to correct procedures in performing certain activities.

For example, when you get into the driver's seat of your car, you automatically access the micro-model associated with driving. It is very unlikely that when you are getting in your car to drive to work, you will be accessing a micro-model concerned with tying your shoes, or playing a musical instrument.

Informational micro-models are anchored to words and phrases, rather than sensory experience. For instance, I can influence you to access a particular micro-model with three words, each of which leads to a subset within the model that precedes it:

• Sports
• Champions
• Federer

Now, all I have to do is add the word "Wimbledon", and you are ready to discuss all you know about that particular champion. If I substituted Federer with Agassi, you would have to make a slight adjustment to access that particular micro-model. If I suddenly threw in the word "philanthropy", momentary confusion would arise, sending you back to your mega-model, to determine how "Sports/Champions/Federer" is associated with the word "philanthropy".

You can understand that the higher up in order you go, the more generalized the references are, so that your mega-model sums up to a collection of generalizations and intangibles. Your feelings and attitudes are influenced by the generalizations you apply to various aspects of experience, and in your definitions of general terms. For instance, when talking about life in general, you may have heard or even used the following descriptions:

• Life is a struggle
• Life is a stage, and we are the players
• Life is a series of triumphs and setbacks
• Life is a classroom
• Life is a breeze

Without realizing it, you have undoubtedly contributed to the models of others by sharing your descriptions; you have added information (a micro-model) which they have chosen to incorporate into their model of the world, and that guide them in situations where that micro-model is relevant. Without knowing it, you have engaged in the process of Neurolinguistically Programming models.

The Art of Modeling

While we all engage unconsciously in the process of programming models every time we venture an opinion, or relate a set of information, it is only through the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder that modeling has become a practice, wherein the modeler sets out purposefully to create a model intended to provide specific results for the recipient.

Since these models are language-based, it follows that a good modeler is one who not only has a good vocabulary, but also understands language structure, and how that structure affects the way the recipient processes the information. Richard Bandler and John Grinder put it brilliantly in Frogs Into Princes:

A modeler only builds descriptions. These descriptions are only ways of getting you to pay attention to things.

If I am a skillful modeler, the descriptions I share in my blog will allow you the same understanding I have of the workings of the minds which use the models. Not only will you be able to use this model to learn and master NLP faster, but, with practice, you will begin creating models yourself... structuring your actions and communications in ways that impart to others exactly the information you wish for them to add to their own models. That will become the "programming" piece.

As I stated earlier, your model of the world is the information and set of instructions you comply with and turn to for guidance in all your daily activities. Also, you built your model of the world by deciding (consciously or unconsciously) which information to pay attention to, and which to disregard. This may seem farfetched, until you stop to realize that everything you have done has been by decision. You made decisions by evaluating the benefits and consequences of one decision over those of the other. You may think you had no alternative, that you were forced to go to school when you were a kid, but the fact remains, one reason you decided to go to school was you didn't like the consequences that would arise from not going. You don't have to breathe, but the consequences of not breathing are unacceptable, so you decide to breathe.

One factor which influences early decisions about what to incorporate into your personal model is the number of choices available. Another is the need for the mind to gather as much information as possible, to eliminate the unknowns which are seen as threats to survival and well-being. In the early stages, a mind is more intent on knowing something about everything in its environment, and is less discriminating in its efforts to fill the voids.

Keeping this in mind, you should realize that all this information is just my model of the world and that I'm offering it to you only as an additional choice, rather than an attempt to "change your mind".

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NLP Framework - Representational Systems - How You Build Your Model Of The World

NLP Framework - Representational Systems - How You Build Your Model Of The World
By Steve Bauer

In previous articles you've been learning that you make sense of events in your surroundings through your model of the world. In other words, you create maps that help you navigate through your day-to-day situations.

A map is a representation of certain elements of a territory. Different types of maps exist. There are street maps, topographical maps, thermal maps, and so on. A piece of territory could have several maps referring to it. Each map is designed to provide specific information about the territory. For instance, a street map would point to the layout of the streets in that specific territory. A topographical map would point to terrain variations in that specific territory. A thermal map would indicate the temperature of the earth in that specific territory.

As you notice, many different maps can point to the same territory. And you can refer to more than one map depending on the information you need to use at any given time.

In NLP, you study that you build your Model of the World using your senses. In NLP jargon, we call them sensory modalities. We also refer to them as representational systems. These are:

1. The visual representational system (sight)
2. The auditory representational system (hearing)
3. The kinesthetic representational system (touch)
4. The olfactory representational system (smell)
5. The gustatory representational system (taste)

You must drill into your mind that these maps exist in your nervous system. These aren't just ideas suspended in mind. These are actual physiological phenomena grounded in your biology.

Stop and read the previous paragraph one more time. Herein lies the NLP distinction. You build these maps with and into your nervous system.

No kidding.

Think of the implications this holds for your health, for your well-being and for your emotions. As you begin to do the exercises I suggest next, you'll also notice changes occurring in your levels of physical well-being as you begin to streamline the way you represent your experiences and shift to more appropriate representations.

Stop for a second and think of this example. What would be five different ways to represent pop corn?

1. How would you do it visually? Imagine the white robe of the pop corn as it jumps out the pan when it pops.
2. How would you do it auditorily? Can you hear the sound of the corn popping in the pan as it cooks?
3. How would you do it kinesthetically? Feel the crunch of the pop corn as you munch it. What's its texture like?
4. How would you do it olfactorily? What does it smell like?
5. How would you do it gustatorily? Does pop corn actually have a unique taste?

Think about this. Just one phenomenon: pop corn. But five different ways to encode pop corn into your nervous system. That's how you'd recognize pop corn in your mouth though your eyes might be shut: because the texture is also encoded in your nervous system.

In NLP, these different encodings also account for why different people have a different experience of pop corn. Some people find it irresistibly attractive (visual) while others find it unbearable to munch on it as it reminds them of Styrofoam (kinesthetic).

The modalities you use to encode your model of the world strongly influence how you'll react to everyday situations.

Over the next few days, take some time to play with sensory modalities. Choose 3 objects, events or people every day and represent them in all 5 modalities. Within a week, you'll notice how much sharper your senses have become. Send me an email and let me know about it.

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Did you know that mastering NLP revolves around one fundamental skill? Do you want to spend a lot of money on seminars without first knowing what that skill is? Starting your journey in NLP with this skill will most likely cut your learning curve in half! To receive your free report on The Number 1 NLP Skill You Must Master, send a blank email to number1nlpskill@getresponse.com. You can also visit http://www.HowToMasterNLP.com, a blog that caters to beginning students of NLP.

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