While I have become comfortable with working with trance, I still find it challenging to teach the Milton Model to NLP students.  The Milton Model is a set of language patterns, modelled from the great hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, which is used to induce and deepen trance.  There are just so many of these patterns, labelled [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 16) It is important to be able to make the following distinctions when working with NLP: 1.  Content Often people come for coaching mistakenly thinking it will involve a review of their past.  This is an outdated view of personal development, perhaps a legacy of what we have heard about [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 11) Do you know what it is that may be tripping you up or holding you back from achieving your goals? One factor could be incongruence.  Incongrence arises when the conscious and unconscious minds are not in alignment.  It shows up in body language which does not match the verbal words expressed.  To [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 10) Most people take an interest in NLP, or other forms of coaching and self development, because they are wanting to make some change in their life.  If you want to experience change in yourself or when working with others, here a number of important elements to take into [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 7) If you have been reading my recent posts, all this talk of the “conscious” and “unconscious” mind may be making you feel a little schizophrenic by now!  Chris Morris of NLP Connections posted an amusing blogpost about this recently.  The divided mind, as introduced by Freud, was still a [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 6) In my last blog, I explained how our unconscious mind is responsible for learning, and how important it is for us to relearn things from time to time when old habits no longer serve us well.  When we examine the way we learn new things, it teaches us [...]

IMPROVE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 5) Have you considered getting on better with your unconscious mind?  A lot of people are reluctant to even consider this question, as their views are coloured by the influence of Sigmund Freud, the nineteenth century therapist, and fear that their unconscious represents a subterranean sea of repressed and threatening [...]

INCREASE YOUR INFLUENCE WITH NLP (Part 3) Who do you know who is excellent at influencing people in the direction they want them to go?  Who do you know who is hopeless at doing this?  What exactly do these people do which shapes their performance? Politicians probably study this subject more than most.  Past leaders such [...]