NLP Day 2

Have you ever thought so hard it felt like you blew a fuse in your brain? Well, that is what the second day of NLP master practitioner did to me.  The focus of the day was quantum linguistics.  Just makes my head bleed.  Quantum linguistics is an approach to using language for the intention of denting a person's model of the world, as they express it. Sometimes, words crafted in this way can blow away the constraints we place in front of ourselves to let us grow beyond the boundaries of what we thought possible.  How cool!

Looking back now, I could have saved myself the brain ache by understanding that in any language pattern used to break apart a problem, the following 5 steps need to be followed,

1. Feedback to the person their problem allowing them to see it through their own eyes.
2. Then get the person to come out of the problem, so they are observing it. May be using a look back from the future at the problem you used to have.......
3. Get the individual to associate with resources, this could be even having choice, ability to learn, see feedback not failure or communicating
4. Link the resources to the problem
5. Test in the current / future tense. A moment ago you said you had a problem...

I hear you say her attitude means this relationship will fail and I wonder what the result would be if you look back from the future at see yourself with this problem you once had and notice there was a time when you decided to stop relating to her and don't try to not not decide to relate once more, now. A moment ago you said her attitude.......

You feel everyone is against you now and I would like you to consider as you look back at this problem you once had and all the energy you spent battling against yourself and I wonder if you can not not feel your energies are better spent  communicating and growing trust and how the feelings that would create inside.

We played with some other ways of breaking apart a problem.  Simple approaches with devastating results.

Spatial prepositions. When you consider that [problem] what is after it? behind it? In front of it? In place of it? Beyond it?.....

Temporal language. Go inside and try in vain to have the same problem. IT was a terrible problem, wasn't it? You want to make changes haven't you? What would it be like when you have made those changes, now?.....

Destroying decisions people have made e.g I [have decided I] can't do it. Where were you when you decided that? Just before you where were you? Now as you think about your present situation in life, notice how many options you have, now?......

 Linguistic resourcing, going beyond the boundaries e.g I am [label]. Is that all you think you are? Aren't you more than that? What is the intention of that? So what are you that's not that? You know you are more than that, don't you....


Chaining model operators. I don't intend to upset people. I realise you don't intend to hurt people and would'nt it be more helpful to consider it's time that you had better think and choose to have more respect for people's feelings and permit yourself to not upset people because you can.


Wow a whistle stop tour of samples of stuff I played with today.
The key message, is don't fry your brain. Just go with the flow and trust your feelings.

mmmm I hear a Star Wars quote!