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Self Sabotage and the Victim

The victim mentality is the sister to self-sabotage. They both go hand in hand. In today’s economic turmoil more people have fallen into the victim mentality as a way to hide out from their problems or refuge and it provides some temporary stress relief. The victim believes that their circumstances are out of their control, that someone will come to their aid or that the world owes them something because they are special or perhaps because they have endured strife. The victim then heads for denial as a comfort zone.

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The 4 step-System to Learn and Remember More

There are basically two ways to learn new material or tonread a book. The first way is the old-fashioned way: younbegin or you read the material from cover to cover one timenand you try to remember as much as you can. The other way isnto use OPIR. Before explaining OPIR , I would like to tell ...

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By Sharlene Licciardello
NLP Life Coaching Tips for Better Time Management

Have you ever felt that time seems to fly by? Or else, move along at snail’s place? Do you sometimes find yourself you overworked with so much to do and not enough time, at others you’re bored to tears and feeling the tick of every second. If yes, it’s probably thanks to lack of time management! Honestly, you are among the many, who wish there were 48 hours in the day because 24 hours always seem too little. If you were to practice NLP though, you’d find our current e

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By Robert N Jones
Lack of Money and Wealth? Attract More with Neuro Linguistic Programming

The growing global trend is the desire for many people like you me to make more money and become wealthier. We all want to improve our financial circumstances. Not only do you want to increase your income but you definitely need to efficiently spend and use the dollars and pounds that you have worked so hard for. NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING Neuro-Linguistic Programming or more fondly called by its successful proponents as NLP is the new global trend used by advanced and prog

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NLP and the Power of Positive Language

You've got to accentuate the positiver Eliminate the negativer And latch on to the affirmativer Don't mess with Mister In-Between Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive - Johnny Mercer 1944 We often say in NLP that the unconscious mind can't process a negative, but what on earth does that mean?

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By Tad and Adriana James, the Official Guides to NLP.
***The Use Of NLP And Time Line Therapy™ Techniques In Treating Depression

I have worked with a number of depressed clients, even Clinically Depressed,and on Prozac for 20 years, and we have had great success with Time Line Therapy for this. Depression is different from most other things we work with in NLP in that it is a "Clinical" issue. So..... First of all, it is inappropriate to work with depression unless you are qualified. since depression can be a forerunner to other behavior such as suicide, this essentially means you should not treat depr

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Humor In Leadership

NLP has been under attack over the last few years. Without very much research in the scientific arena, I've found few people believing it to be credible. In fact, it's SO incredible, I decided to learn it. Over the last 14 years, my investigations have paid off with a new kind of philosophy of ...

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NLP State Management - What Is It and Why Even the World Class Sportsmen Like It?

Couple of years before spelled the disappointments of hundreds and hundreds of badminton followers at the Beijing Olympics 08. The long looked forward to badminton finals conce ing world number 1, Lin Dan, along with the number two, Lee Chong Wei. Just when every badminton followers thought it could quite possibly be a match of the decade, something out of the blue took place. With much ease from the champion but disappointments from the fanatics, Lin Dan beate Lee Chong Wei.

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3 Myths And Misconceptions About NLP

I discovered NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) about 11 years ago. At the time I was looking for ways to de-stress and reduce overwhelm. I stumbled on NLP as a result of a weekend retreat I participated in, in which the facilitators were using NLP techniques. That weekend was life changing for me and by the end of the weekend I wanted to learn more about NLP. Following the retreat I enrolled in an NLP training program and so began my interest and training in NLP.

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NLP with a dash of shamanism for resourcefulness all the time

You’ve all learned a lot about state control and will know the first principle, ‘you go there first’ and then you take the other person with you. How exactly do you do that? Well perhaps you’ve answered something like – you know what the state feels like, so you get that feeling and maybe you do it by talking yourself there, or imaging situations when you were in that state. Perhaps you have another answer – which ever way, make a mental note of how you do it and how well yo

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Can we change Core Beliefs?

Recently, well over the last couple of months, I have been going to a great gym. Well not exactly a gym but a place called Core Cambridge where I am being helped to regain core stability and a better structure~ regain my way of standing and moving in alignment. Well bully for you I hear a ...

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How NLP Can Change Your Life

Have you ever heard of neuro-linguistic programming, also known as NLP? It comprises of ways and techniques to understand human behavior. Quite often, people make use of the power of the mind and emotions to mold the way they behave. This often results in them learning a new skill or becoming a better person. In this article, I will talk more about how NLP can change your life. First up, NLP can help you overcome fears. I am not just referring to phobias of insects and creat

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Creativity NLP - Develop your Resourcefulness By Using Disney Model

Is creativity simply a pure inbo gift? Can creativity NLP helps transform you into another Walt Disney - a person who seemingly had the magical hands to transform dreams into reality? Referring to the Neuro-linguistic programming technique created by Robert Dilts, the Disney Creativity NLP strategy seeks to bring out the 3 distinctive “personalities” inside you to help uncover the creativity side of you. The reason for the Disney Creativity NLP strategy is to assist you to separate out each of the differing yet incredibly important roles and assume them divided.

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The Power of Thought

Look around you. Perhaps you see a chair. This chair is real and exists in time and space. Yet before it came into being, it first existed as a thought. In fact, everything in the room existed as a thought at some point in someone’s mind. Who you are today and the reality you have created are a ...

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By Jay W. Politi
Neuroplasticity: Your Brain and Leadership

Neuroplasticity: Your Brain and Leadership By Jay W. Politi Original Article Posted at Hammer's Hemisphere 2-6-11 http://wp.me/pweWp-60 The human brain has fascinated scientists, philosophers, educators and most every human on the planet at one time or another. The best reason for this is, quite simply, we all have one. For the vast majority of time in the human history it was agreed upon that the human brain was born with its given genetic limitations. What that means to a l

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The Question No One Asks a Hypnotherapist or NLP Practitioner

Sometimes finding the right hypnotist or NLP practitioner to work with can be a challenge. While I was having breakfast this morning, I was thinking a bit about the different talents and life experiences of people who are drawn into any field or career not just the field of hypnotherapy or NLP. There are those who take a career path because they "decide" while others take a career path because they are "called."

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Loyalty and Infidelity

Nothing strikes fear in the heart more than the thought that your mate is cheating on you with someone else. Yet every year more and more marriages and engagements are destroyed by infidelity. What leads normally rational people to commit the one irreversible act that is sure to kill off the trust, intimacy, and joy of being loved and respected by your most intimate companion, friends and family? Are we slaves to hormonal impulses or do we subconsciously destroy twenty years of intimacy, while fantasizing about a future with a partner that deceives their mate?

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11 Simple Ways to Increase Your Happiness

In today’s society we usually care more about our exte al world and neglect the internal one. We seem to overlook details such as our health, state of mind or even self-awareness. We spend thousands of dollars on what gratifies our exte al world with the latest technology, lavish cars, big homes, stylish clothes, extravagant weddings, cosmetics and even plastic surgery and many times we neglect our internal world. We forget that we have a powerful organ called the mind which can bring us much more abundance than we could ever perceive.

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NLP: 3 Ways To Build Instant Rapport.

Rapport is one of the most important characteristics of human interaction. Simply speaking, building rapport or being in rapport is being on the same wavelength, or the same page as the person with whom you are communicating. Rapport is also a feeling of harmonious connection between people or ...

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By David Leonhardt
Six Reasons to Take NLP Training Courses

The two levels of NLP training are: nn1. NLP Practitioner training coursen2. NLP Master Practitioner training course. nnIn this article we will be discussing the first level, NLP Practitioner training course.nn6 Reasons To Take NLP Trainingn n1. NLP Training for BusinessnWith an NLP training course you will be able to influence others, increase sales, learn leadership, coaching, and management skills. NLP training for business is best suited for Managers, Sales People, Market

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NLP and Anchoring

Anchoring: The Keyboard To Your Mental States Everyone has enjoyed a positive state of mind and also understands what it feels like to be in a negative state as well. Now given the chance most people are going to choose the positive state of mind, but feel that it is simply based on ...

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Recipe for Extreme Stress Relief

As we move through life it can be exciting, invigorating and stressful. Sometimes, much too stressful. So what is it you need to emerge stronger and in peace when life’s everyday hustle and bustle goes to an extreme? What we need and recommend is many moments alone. These moments must be conscious and concentrated to the extreme…for extreme stress must be balanced by extreme relaxation. So a few minutes alone in the car before shopping does not cut it. We must thoughtfully s

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4 Ways To Connect Using Communication Preferences

We may have lost some face to face connection, but in today’s world of social media communication, we have moved to faster, more frequent communication than ever before. Now, more than ever, what you say and how you say it is critical to the person on the other end of your communication message. Effective communication is the first step in building strong personal and professional relationships. Did you know? • Rapport is established in the first 90 seconds or less • 93% of what is communicated is communicated and received unconsciouslyr

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NLP Course Tips - Top 10 Hypnotic Principles

Top Hypnotic Principles that will make you a more effective hypnotist 1 - Calming the Conscious Mind A model of what we’re doing in hypnosis is that we’re calming the neocortex, which is our conscious brain, so that we can develop a greater connection and communication between all our thinking systems, thus opening ourselves up to significantly increased thinking power. This is a bit like bringing three (and maybe more) brilliant but very different people together. Bringing them together is a start, but they have to learn to work together.

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How to Stop Binge Eating With Hypnosis and NLP

Every sufferer of this condition wants to stop binge eating whether they are conscious of this or not. The personal ramifications of leading a secret life and planning all activities around food leads to desperate unhappiness in sufferers. Binge eaters consume vast quantities of food and many admit it costs them dearly, both personally and in their relationships. Being stuck on the endless cycle of binging then dieting destroys relationships both with themselves, with family and friends and seriously affects their social life.

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By Belinda Daly
The Art of Building A Successful Rapport With Anyone

What is rapport? Rapport is when you find you have established a friendly relationship with someone. It is like when you meet someone for the first time and you both instantly bond. For example you can be at a party and you meet someone and you both find that you have many things in common, i.e. you both might like fishing, golf, clay pigeon shooting, etc. you have instantly established an instant rapport with that person. Why is establishing rapport with people important? Ra

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Secrets of personal transformation: What’s missing from the mind-as-onion metaphor?

The onion metaphor has often been used to describe the process of delving into a person’s psyche. Layers are removed to reveal what is beneath, toward the core. The metaphor reflects the many layers that we have inside us. Most who use this metaphor suggest that peeling away the layers of the onion is the complete story. The assumption seems to be that the awareness that happens as the layers of the onion are peeled away changes people. Is it the tears? Is it some magical healing factor that happens by exposing what was hidden to the light of day?

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By Moreen DuFermont
Integrity of Clear Communication

Integrity of Clear Communication rn rnUpon sheer glance, it seems that this title resounds a great deal of common sense, however, have you ever really taken the time to ponder what it means? Yes, it is a fact that communication affects every one of our relationships from the moment we are born until the day that we die! It starts with the relationship we have with ourselves and extends to those that are inter-personal, professional, societal as well as spiritual. With this sa

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Translating NLP For Abroad -- The French Experience

Translating NLP for Abroad -- The French Experiencenby Brian Van der HorstnNLP is taken perhaps more seriously in France than in any other country in the world. In 1985, when I began teaching NLP in Paris, my company took an informal poll. Nearly 95% of the French companies and 75% of the training and consulting organizations we talked to had never heard of NLP. Two years later, the figures had reversed.nnWithin three years, I began to see NLP included in business and medical

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Finding Your Self Worth

Do you measure your personal self worth based on what others think of you? Do you work really hard to make others like or approve of you? Do you find it hard to say no to people believing that others’ priorities are more important than your own? Do you lack confidence? If you answered yes to most of these questions you may have a low opinion of yourself or perhaps you just don’t consider yourself worthy. Enhancing self image will help build your confidence and your personal self worth. 5 ways to enhance your personal self worth:

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Basics of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

NLP, also known as Neuro-linguistic programming, is the study of human excellence. This programming was established by mathematics student, Richard Bandler and a professor of linguistics named John Grinder in 1970. Richard and john created their model of nuero-linguistic programming after carefully studying the methods used by the therapists. They found that there are many threads which can be used as basics to create their model.

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3 Ways NLP Can Help You Be More Successful

There are many ways NLP has helped me, and it can assist you too in your career, business or in your personal life. NLP has helped me grow personally and professionally, and has been invaluable to me in growing my business from a start up to a thriving professional coaching business. NLP has provided me with tremendous tools and techniques I use regularly in my coaching practice to assist others in achieving their career and life goals. So what is NLP?

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Public Speaking – is your head on the line?

Marcus Tullius Cicero; January 3, 106 BC – December 7, 43 BC, is widely considered one of Rome’s greatest orators and prose stylists. Using his talents he earned his way to be elected consul, the highest ranking office in Roman Republic. At the end of his life, he became an enemy of Mark Antony, attacking him in a series of speeches. Marc Antony (through the Second Triumvirate) had Cicero declared an enemy of the state and subsequently killed in 43 BC. His head and hands were cut off and nailed on the Rostra in the Forum Romanum, where orators spoke.

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“Secrets of Seductive Selling”

Have you ever been in an . . . . intimate relationship? Yes, INTIMATE! Let me ask you this, “HOW do you know?” I know, stupid question and what’s this got to do with sales? Well, nothing really. Unless you’re a mover and shaker. Then you understand the psychology of seductive sales. Or ...

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By Dion Daly
Eradicate Bad Habits the Easy Way

Do you have a bad habit like biting your nails, or twiddling with your hair? Maybe you can't help excavating your nose and ears - a habit that should definitely be eradicated! Well, if you do, the good news is that bad habits can be broken. The first thing you need to do is to admit to yourself that you have an uncontrollable bad habit. Not all habits are bad: some habits are very useful, they help you get through parts of your life that you'd rather not think about. Imagine

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Life Changing Conversations Using Metaphors

Did you know that we use about six metaphors per minute in the English language? Are you aware that our unconscious mind thinks and responds best to symbolic language i.e. metaphors? Did you know that all learning and change occurs at the unconscious level? A metaphor is a story told with a purpose which allows us to bypass conscious resistance in order to make connections at a deeper level. By telling stories you engage the other person’s curiosity and thereby create the opportunity for direct dialogue with their unconscious mind.

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How to Deal with Criticism.

Criticism is a fact of life. No matter what you do people will, at some stage, have there opinions about it and feel the need to voice it in a way that doesn't always seem positive. Some people tell you to ignore criticism, others say it's an opportunity to grow and learn...just what is the best approach to dealing with it? Well, in my opinion, both of the above suggestions can be useful. Sometimes criticism can be to put it bluntly, completely inaccurate and useless and other times it can highlight useful information and insights that can help you develop as a person.

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By Sanjeev Deshpande
NLP Decision Making Strategy

I’ll tell you a fact about me and buying cars. I’m really bad at it.rnI get caught up in the moment and forget about practical reality. Of course, this is exactly what the salespeople are looking for and, embarrassingly, I’m like a fish on a hook.rnI have owned 16 different cars since I was 16 years old. That would be a different car every 1.5 years! See, I am very bad at making decisions about which car to buy. I’m too impulsive.rnAfter about a year, I get bored with

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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective NLP Practice

The seven habits of highly effective NLP practice was written in honor of Stephen Covey, and the beautiful legacy he left in his teachings. After learning NLP,students want to be as effective as their trainers or even more effective. This effectiveness can easily be achieved by practice, and setting a well formed outcome to do so. Habit 1: Be Pro-active

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The Blame Game: Whose Fault Is It, Anyway?

“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.”n- Doug Larson We are a society driven by blame. We blame the government for running our lives, and our parents for ruining it. We blame the fast food industry for making us fat, ...

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