The Change Anger Pattern
An NLP Life-Change Pattern

Note: This pattern is utilized Richard Bandler’s idea that the feelings around an issue tend to have movement. You will want to notice when you are in the emotion whether the feelings are spinning up and over, down and back the opposite direction, or right to left, or left to right.

Benefits: Anger has a positive intent and purpose. It helps you mobilize your energy and gets you ready for action. Anger is almost by definition out of control and harmful to the body. The benefits of the Change Anger Pattern are many including that you become the Master of Your States.

1. Think of a specific time when you were angry. As with almost all NLP patterns, you will want to pick a specific event. Think of a specific moment in time. This is different than thinking about it in a general way. Put yourself in the event as if it is happening now. And as you do, NOW, become aware of the feelings in your body and notice where those feelings start and where they go.

2. Imagine you can push the spinning sensation of the feeling out in front of you a couple of feet. Act as if you can and find that are able to.

3. Turn it (the spinning) inside out and spin it the other way. If it was spinning right to left, now have it spin left to right for example. Bring it back inside yourself continuing the spin in the new direction. Speed it up, slow it down, speed it up again and notice the changes. It may feel better or worse, more intense or less, and it may cause some disorientation. That’s not unusual with this pattern. Be willing to be slightly uncomfortable in order to make the changes now.

4. Keep it spinning fast. Now think of the thing that you used to feel angry about and notice that it now different.

That’s the basic pattern. Of course, you can Past Pace.

5. Think of another time you felt anger and do the same process noticing how you experience it differently now that you have and are utilizing the spinning technique.

And you can Future Pace.

6. Think of a time in the future that you are sure would have elicited anger in the past from you and allow yourself to feel differently about it now as you simply have changed the direction or spin. 7. Do it with lots of situations and notice the pattern becomes automatic with repetition and soon you won’t have to consciously do the pattern. It will have become automatic now.

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How can we transform the world from chaotic self-interest, escalating violence and seemingly a bent toward destruction, to a world that is systemically peaceful, collaborative, empowering, and life affirming? Depending your personal life filter, an argument can already be made for either of these views as truth. Haven’t we made great progress as humans? Isn’t the world better than it was? And then again; Isn’t the world getting worse? Why should we try? Why not tear the world down and start over with something else?

I remember walking around my college campus and occasionally I’d look out over the bustle of moving bodies between classes and see someone looking back at me, meeting my eye. In the early 1970′s there were already well over 30,000 students bumping into each other at the major university I attended and occasionally the eye I would meet belonged to someone curiously awake, aware, knowing, and conscious, looking back, as eager and fascinated as I was to connect, even if only the split second in time. I remember reading a book about that time that suggested that, ‘there are those among us who have awakened and are conscious.’ Some of those people, I imagined, knew something I had not yet learned.

In Christian biblical stories following the death of Jesus, the Apostles traveled their land practicing ‘laying on of hands’ and people were ‘lifted up’ and transformed. How many ways, I wondered were there to change people and change the world. Maybe those miracles were not so mysterious. I have met lots of people who lay their hands on other people to heal them and who touch, inspire, and heal with words. I believe we live in a world where more people are awake and capable of creating change than ever before in human history.

That may sound a little naive or romanticized to some who will read this article. As I see and hear the news channels telling me of ‘more people dead in war-torn Iraq or Syria, or “bombing in London or Lebanon’ or even a ‘violent robbery in my town,’ or a ‘domestic family squabble,’ or any number of other incidents that could easily be crafted into a good argument that the world is terrible place and that it’s not smart to trust your neighbors, I am aware that there are more an more people on the planet who believe that positive change can occur. It’s a matter of what we sort for in life. If we see problems and negativity as the primary force moving us, we create that reality. Making fundamental changes in parts of the world where generations of poverty and repression of basic human rights have molded belief and suppressed hope, is clearly not that easy. On the other hand, when we give people a chance, they sometimes do miraculous things or make selfless sacrifices for the benefit of others.

Since I have done quite a bit of corporate training work over the years in the areas of culture change and team building based largely on my work with Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP. I remember one of my colleagues and mentors, Robert Dilts, raising the question, “Why not build a company where people really want to come to work? Or to the point of this writing, “why not build a world where everyone wants to belong.’

Another of my mentors, Harvey Davisson, PhD, was a Psychologist in Dallas, Texas. As a 30-something young man I worked with him to develop his weight loss-longevity business. As part of my working agreement, I learned about a methodology he was using with his patients. I have adapted that work over the years and now call it Core Decisional Repatterning©. It is a profound change technology for discovering the decisions that make up our programming and where limitations exist, installing a new, more life-enhancing decision that will cause an individual to quickly and easily change unresourceful life patterns. People get more of what they want in life as a result.

I remember having what I assumed to be a prophetic dream around that time. In my dream, I had flown into a small airport in a third world country and was shaking hands and meeting with dignitaries including the country’s educational, financial, and other leaders. I was there to teach them how to implement these technologies for profound transformation that could change even deeply rooted beliefs causal to poverty, poor health, violent habits, and greed, to healthy, happy, productive programming that could transform entire nations. After all, if you can change individuals fundamentally, you change how families operate, and how communities are organized, and how countries relate to one another.

As I learned more about NLP techniques, the ability to achieve the dream came much closer to reality. NLP is based on Behavior Modeling, a technology based on protocols for elicit the key components of expertise. “If anyone can do it; you (or I) can do it.” So, pioneers in the field of NLP including the co-founders John Grinder and Richard Bandler set about discovering the structure of experience focused on a single question, “What is excellence.” They modeled, or copied behavior of highly successful people in several fields and areas of life. Elicit enough high quality information about how an expert creates any achievement and you can install those patterns of excellence in yourself and others. Applications are endless.

In my NLP Coaching and Training practice I use a wide variety of powerful tools, including Principled (Total-Wn) Negotiating, therapeutic metaphor, Re-Imprinting, reframing, anchoring, hypnotic language skills, Core Transformation, parts integration and other conflict integration patterns, and much more. In my corporate training and coaching work, I have incorporated aspects of a breakthrough technology developed by Werner Erhart and John Hanley. I have dabbled in learning the Dream Body Work or Process-Oriented Psychology, of Arnold Mindell, and I have been exposed to complimentary modalities and sponsored practitioners of various body work and energy work modalities that can further transform human systems. In short, I think there are a number of techniques and specialized knowledge in the world and even one of these life-changing modalities can make changes in whole communities.

With these ideas in mind, I contacted a few high quality people to form a board for an association that would give people interested in NLP and related technologies a way to belong and learn skills and allow people to connect globally to others with similar interests. The Global Association of Neuro Linguistic Programming is taking on the mission to change the world and it is ‘opening doors and joining hands’ to connect like-minded people and provide education in NLP and related areas.

I am proud to announce the board. My wife, Marsha Thomason, brings a straight forward no-nonsense attitude, event planning capabilities, and a can-do spirit from her years of experience owning one of the nations top real estate and property management companies. Marsha was also winner of a national real estate selling competition for a leading franchise. I contacted Andrew Alex, with his very well-rounded intellect and clarity of thought and his years of experience as a personal injury attorney. I was pleased that he accepted my invitation and has taken ownership in contributing on many levels. Rhonda Robbins brings an understanding of the internet, social media, and marketing, and as a Certified Life Coach, she has integrated NLP techniques and understanding. Janice Palmer is an attorney and former judge in the area of family law, who is also an NLP Master Practitioner and brings deep understanding of the change process and non-adversarial approaches to highly-charged conflicts. Khaled Aljurdi is a Life Coach specializing in dating and persuasion who has been successful in networking activities and personal transformation. Gregg Sobek also has combined NLP and breakthrough technology in his real estate investment business.

Rhonda Robbins and Andrew Alex have agreed to contribute articles and training on a profiling technology that is thousands of years old and as useful in the board room or court room today as any available in the world. Over time, the www.gcnlp.com website will host a wide number of change techniques and education in related areas to personal change and making the world a better place. Resources will be available online and from regular workshop meetings, networking opportunities, and a yearly conference is beginning to take shape. I’m excited to find out what will come next as this project goes forward. So, join the GCNLP association and get involved, www.aznlp.com for the local Arizona chapter. Some weekly meetings will be FREE to attend in Phoenix, Arizona, and a monthly Saturday workshop series will start in February and will include guest speakers and great opportunities for learning and networking.

Please look for articles to follow on the topics of changing the world and about NLP and other technologies for profound personal change and business excellence.

Check out the website www.nlpskils.com for calendar of events and other resources. And, contact me personally at 602 321-7192.

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Core Decisional Repatterning(c) is a 9-step technology for finding the core decisions that have limited your behavior in life and installing new empowering programs that get an individual what he or she congruently wants in life. You will recognize unresourceful programming when you notice that you have the same negative responses to things over and over again. For example, you notice that you or someone else you know keeps doing the same things to your/their children that you/they swore you’d never do because you know the effect it had on you when your parents did it to you. You know you don’t want that behavior, but there it is, working at a deep unconscious level in your life.

You’ve heard someone tell a child, “your a bad boy” instead of distinguishing the behavior as not a good one. Children tend to take things literally and tend to get that they are bad instead of the behavior is bad. No wonder so many people have programming that they are ‘not good enough’, or ‘bad’, or “not deserving’ or ‘not loveable.’ Now think about what is created in the life of someone with this belief. ‘Conscious languaging’ calls for people to get this poor language into consciousness so you can change it to something positive and life enhancing.

Do you know someone (maybe you) who does all the right things, but then sabotages their own success. If they don’t believe they deserve, people tend to find a way to not have what they say they want. You can recognize beliefs (programming) from linguistic structures. People say things like, “I’m the kind of person who…” That is a clue you are about to hear something right out of the core beliefs that run deep in a person’s life.

At the core of our programming are a set of deeply held values. The primary presupposition of Core Decisional Repatterning(c) is that all your programming is in place due to decisions that you have made in life. Some people seem to decide they are not wanted very early in life, perhaps even before they are born. It makes sense that a child may already have some negative programming from the womb when parents are arguing and unpleasant tones are heard by the child, over money difficulties or other issues. Regardless, of whether you believe it starts that early, chances are you’d agree programming starts very early. I’d like to believe that children come into the world wanting and giving love and experiencing joy as they learn about the world around them. Soon, events imprint programming upon a child. Some of that programming is good, appropriate, and healthy. Some is unresourceful and can cause a wide range of problematic issues through life. At the least, we all experience not getting some of the things we say we want.

We all have some negative programming. According to child development theories, most of our core programmming is in place by age 4 or 5. People make the decision to be like Mom and like Dad or other primary caregivers early in life. We get it all (a gestalt or whole group) at once from each of these decisions. The problem is that some of that programming is good and useful and some is in there at a deep emotional level operating behind the scenes to produce behavior we don’t really want when we are old enough to distinguish what is desirable. If Dad never made more than an average low wage, the chances of the person becoming wealthy is not very likely. The child inside keeps saying, “I’m just like Dad.” In addition, decisions made later in life may be healthier programs, but they are often in conflict with the earlier programming.

So, how do we change unresourceful programming? In our study of highly successful people, there seem to be some things in common with other well balanced, healthy people. Core Decisional Repatterning(c) offers some healthy decisions starting from the decision to be fully and completely alive. Lots of people seem to be living life as if they are trying to get dead. They eat the wrong foods, drink and/or use drugs, get into bad relationships and you will hear a lot of negative talk and complaining. Language programs behavior and people create what they are focused upon.

So the Core Decisional Repatterning(c) process discovers the limiting decision, finds who the decision was made in service to and starts the wording of a new, more empowering decision. Since the unconscious mind is set up to keep people in the same patterns, a facilitator helps to eliminate any loopholes in the new decision. When the wording of the new decision is complete, the next steps are to get the decision at memory level from beginning to end. When it is memorized well enough, the decision is driven to a deep emotional level. A plan is made to follow through on the decision and then it is put into practice. You do it again and again.

The result is fast effective and profound change. Behavior is simply different. Making such decision does not mean a person never has emotions of fear, guilt, anxiety, sadness, etc., but it does mean that the person experiences a new design for what to do in any life situation. Driving the decision to deep emotion displaces the old unresourceful decision and installs the new decision in it’s place. Personality does not change, but a person is freed up to live more in alignment with core values and be the person they choose to be. Life is permanently different.

Contact Bill Thomason to schedule a Core Decisional Repatterning(c) coaching session or ask about upcoming seminars on the subject. Call 602 321-7192 or go to www.nlpskills.com or www.nlplifecoachphoenix.com.

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Here’s an interesting question. Can you shut down your internal dialogue? (Revised from a previously posted article on [nlpskills] eGroup on Yahoo Groups)

Somewhere I read (Turtles All The Way Down, I think) that both John Grinder and
Richard Bandler learned to suspend internal dialogue much like what the Yaqui
Man of Knowledge, Don Juan, told his apprentice, Carlos, he should do in the book The Teachings of Don Juan. The suspension of internal dialogue (Ad) was talked about by the NLP pioneers as a side effect of doing a lot of NLP patterns. What are patterns that would be useful in shutting off mind talk or internal dialogue? Would it be a good idea to stop internal dialogue?

Most of the NLP books I have read describe the Auditory Digital (Ad) eye accessing and processing modality as ‘self talk’ or ‘mind talk.’ While I think a lot more goes on there than Auditory processing, for the purposes of this discussion, let’s go with the norm. Let’s assume that Ad is mind talk. You might notice that you are having some discussion in your own mind over this post. That would be Ad or internal dialogue.

I would of course want to check the ecology of stopping any internal dialogue with any coaching client. Ask well-formed outcome questions including, What do you want? How is it a problem for you to have internal dialague (Ad)? What will it do for you when you stop/suspend it? What’s the positive intent? How will you know when you have it? etc. The real issue is most likely unresourceful mind talk. I saw a movie where the word, ‘morass’ was used. I looked it up. It’s like a swamp or bog. Pretty good metaphor for ‘a bunch of voices in my head’ and it’s a nice linguistic ambiguity or descriptor. When I can think of the unwanted voices as ‘morass’ the nominalizing
of the process makes them (the voices) a thing and I can shift submodalities of that. It is no longer controlling me or my client. You can now exercise some control over it. Just noticing it and being able to move it into the distance or change to a more pleasant color, weight, brightness, or tonality often has a strong impact. That’s at least a good beginning. You can imagine that, can’t you? And you can experience the subtle or not so subtle shifts that are created when you do.

And, to be fair, we really need to elicit some more information don’t we? For a negative, shrill, demeaning content, constant voice that sounded a lot like his Mother, with a client of mine, we used a Threshold Pattern. Blow it up out of all
proportion until it explodes or otherwise changes form. Note that the intensity
of the voice phenomena changes, and then you want to anchor that into future scenarios.

How else would you go about this? What patterns do you think will work best?
And what benefit do you think there would be to stopping internal dialogue? Is
it a simple Ad issue or are other modalities involved?

In my experience, sometimes people are processing Visual and/or Kinesthetic when their eyes are down and to your left. But that’s another discussion. Please post your responses and thoughts about this post.

Bill Thomason
Your NLP Success Coach
Certified NLP Master Trainer
www.nlpskills.com

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We all experience moments in life when we feel conflict. Conflict involves clashing or contradictory emotional experiences. NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming offers a number of techniques for dealing with conflict. Since the NLP founders developed NLP from the foundation of Behavior Modeling starting in the 1970′s, NLP is a set of techniques and skills based on models expertise and excellence wherever it exists.

If anyone can do it; you can do it! The basic concept of Behavior Modeling is that if anyone can accomplish any desired outcome or expert behavior, and assuming you can elicit enough high quality information about how the expertise is performed, you can produce a similar result. Even the abilities of genius personalities that were once thought to be inborn to gifted genius individuals are now understood to have a structure that can be discovered and replicated. Where people once thought you had to born with an ability or genius in a particular area of life, these behaviors are now understood to be reproducible and even teachable.

It then follows that if anyone can handle conflict better than others, the ability can be understood as a skill and therefore can be modeled by others. The skill can be broken down into component parts. Strategies can be discovered. As a person who wants to model expert behavior, in this case about handling conflict, you probably know someone who handles conflict in a way that you admire. Decide who that person is. Then consider this question. “What is different about the way they would handle conflict.”

There are two kinds of Behavior Modeling; Inside and Outside Modeling. Let’s practice ‘inside modeling’. 1. First, think of something that occurred for you that is an example of when you did NOT handle conflict well. When you think about that specific moment of experiencing conflict and not handling it as well as you would have liked, where do you feel in your body? Where is the sense of conflict or constriction in your body? Is it a feeling in your gut, or tightness in your neck or jaw or a combination of things, or some altogether different feeling? Notice that you can imagine it like movie from beginning to end and you are now standing on the last frame of the movie. 2. Now, shake that off. That’s right shake your arms and body and focus on a couple of things in your immediate environment. Be present. This is called a ‘break state’ in NLP. It’s like sherbet between meals. Your pallet is neutralized so you can experience the next taste. 3. Now, notice that when you thought about the experience, it was like a movie or story that went from start to finish and you can imagine you are now standing in the last frame of your movie. 4. Now, as you are standing on the last frame you can step out and looking back at yourself in the movie, you can imagine some resources. If you had resources then that you can imagine now, the movie would have occurred differently. 5. Run your movie backwards really fast so the color in the frames blurs together and the voices go backwards until you are back just before the event/movie started. 6. Now, imagine that instead of you in the movie you now insert the person thought of who handles conflict well. Imagine you can look over his/her shoulder and start the movie over again this time, noticing what is happening differently the way he/she handles the situation. Let the movie run from beginning to end until you are on the last frame again and say (out loud or in your head) what is different in the way he/she handled it. What have you learned? 7. Now, noticing these new insights, let’s do it again. This time you are going to run the movie really fast backwards and notice the colors run together and the voices go backwards. 8. Now imagine that you can go up inside the other person, looking through their eyes, seeing what they see, thinking the thoughts through their belief systems and start the movie over again noticing the changes and what is different looking out through their eyes. When you are at the last frame, take a moment to notice what you learned differently from the last time you ran the movie. We’re going to do it one more time. 9. This time run the movie fast backwards to just before it starts and as you have noticed lots of things different from the way you did it the first time, and your brain and nervous system are now imprinted with new possibilities, put yourself back in and start the movie again, noticing what you can now do differently including what you have learned from imagining it the other times. What is different this time? Allow yourself to integrate what you have learned fully and completely now. Notice what is different and say it out loud or at least in your head and notice how you are feeling and moving your body differently than before.

Congratulations! You now have new tools and skills in place that will be available to you the next time you are in a situation where circumstances look like the ones you started with. It doesn’t really mean that things in life won’t feel like conflict, it just means you have new ways you can think, feel and behave differently than you used to. It may take some practice and you’ll notice that when the situations come up, you will either not get into them or you will simply act differently. Good work.

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Can People Change?

How is it possible for people to change?

This question has driven a large part of my work and thought over the years. It is certainly a central theme of human potential inquiry. Perhaps you know someone who suddenly started to live a very different kind of life than they had before; someone who had experienced a “profound life change.” These people experience profound personal change that is fast, effective, relatively painless and permanent.

As NLP pioneer and developer Wyatt Woodsmall points out, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) developed from a technology called Behavioral Modeling. Children learn from ‘modeling” the behaviors of others, especially parents and other primary caregivers. The co-founders of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, sought out the most successful people from various fields to model their behavior. They wanted to discover the structure of “expertise;” how people do what they do well.

Richard Bandler was a computer information student. John Grinder was a professor of Linguistics. Since they were both interested in Gestalt Therapy, the first experts they modeled were therapists. Richard and John started to systematically elicit and then “model” or “copy” the behavior of these experts. Although there are some exceptions, it was said that if anyone can create any achievement in life, and if you can get enough “quality information” about how they do it, you can reproduce the same results.

Modeling People Who Have Experienced Profound Personal Change

So, what are the common elements among people who have experienced “profound personal change?” It seems that profound personal change is typically preceded by some traumatic event. Sometimes it is a near death experience, like an auto accident, or a doctor telling you, “Get your affairs in order; you have 3-6 months to live.” It may be that someone you know went to church on a Sunday and, while in a deep emotional state, decided to re-dedicate his or her life. From that moment on, that person lived differently.

Everyone knows someone who has had a “profound life change” experience? But how can we “model” or reproduce profound change in our own lives? And, can it be done without the trauma? It is thought that by age 4 or 5, most people have almost all their deep-level, core programming in place. The decisions that make up this programming are a Core Decisional Network. This deep programming operates at an other-than-conscious level and it drives a person’s behavior for the rest of his or her life.

When we ask experts how they do what they do, they most often say, “I don’t know how I do it, I just do it.” However, when information is elicited effectively by a practitioner of NLP, we find that the person does know at some level. People who have had a profound life change experience report they were in a state of “deep emotion” at the time of the change. Deep emotion is one of the key ingredients of how new core decisions get in place. Core level decisions are expressed with specific language, in specific ways, including body language and gestures. People are expressing their core programming all the time in everything that they do and say.

by Bill Thomason
NLP Success Coach
Certified NLP Trainer
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World Class NLP Trainer Introduces Neuro Linguistic Programming

World-class NLP Trainer, Master Practitioner and coach talks about what NLP can do for you. NLP is Neuro Linguistic Programming, the success technology the sky-rocketed Anthony Robbins to number one motivational speacker world-wide is perhaps the most power technology for personal change and business excellence on the planet. Watch the video and please comment and share below.

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Logical Levels and Outcome Formation

The exercise in a recent NLP Practitioner Certification included using the Logical Levels as a Life-Change Pattern with regard to acheiving an Outcome. The Logical Levels are from Robert Dilt’s contribution to NLP. Robert studied Gregory Bateson’s Logical Levels of Education and adapted it to a number of applications. The Logical Levels include Environment, Behavior, Capability, Values/Beliefs, Identity, and Spirit. My purpose here is not to describe what the levels are but to comment on how to do the exercise of taking an individual through the levels by taking an outcome (goal) and separating out and anchoring the state relating to each of the Logical Levels.

A student was asking if, “the logical levels are the pieces of the puzzle that are put together to make the outcome realized – not the actual steps, but maybe the rungs of the ladder that need to be in place to get you there.”

My answer is, “That sounds like a good basic frame although I don’t know if all the rungs ‘need’ to be there.” So, let’s expand it a bit for everyone. We are using Logical Levels as an NLP Life-Change Pattern. One of the basic premises we are working with here is that to accomplish any outcome, pathways through the brain and nervous system potentiate the ability and therefore the accomplishment. People who win the lottery rarely keep the money for long. In their programming, they have no foundation for having it or keeping it. A good question to ask is, “What prevents the person from already having the outcome they say they want?” Fully representing the outcome has not been achieved yet and/or secondary gain (usually a blind spot) has not been uncovered. The goal here is to experience the state of already having achieved the outcome. That will create a target state. Remember to keep refocusing on the target state that has already been created to manifest the result you want. To facilitate your subject/client, that’s all you need to be going for here with your subject or client. Could it be that simple? Well, yes, you’ll also have to do what’s necessary to follow through, however, this pattern bypasses most of the reasons most people do not achieve their goals.

NOTE: A Breakthrough is a goal or outcome that is big enough to change the way you play the game of yoru life affecting every thought and action and you don’t know how to achieve it from where you stand now. IT should be stated in the positive, self generating and not depending on others, and worded without qualifiers and quantifiers. This will relate to your Breakthrough. You want your Breakthrough/Outcome completed in a specific time frame or at least the foundation so completely in place that you have no doubt about it’s accomplishment. So, you need (A-I-S-B) – Want to (Attitude), Opportunity/Expectation to (Intention), Energy to (State) and Action (Behavior). Stated more simply, you want your subject to experience the completed outcome first; as in now. It’s a little counter-intuitive, and it’s what we are saying highly successful people do. You do want to model the strategies of highly successful people, don’t you? Most of us just haven’t been doing things this way until now.

Now, when you separate out the possible Logical Levels starting with Environment and anchor that state, the first thing you are sorting for is where on the Logical Level chart you or your client are operating now. You should eventually be able to recognize language at each level and match the person at their level for greater rapport. At Environment, you will want to pay attention to the language including “they,” “them,” “everyone,” “people do,” and other language referencing some cause outside the self, lack of responsibility or belief, and lack of a sense of internal causality as in “out of my control” and feelings that will include “frustrated,” and “apathetic.” Most of us will feel tense and frustrated although it is possible to find someone else (not us of course) for whom the state is much more comfortable. It can be easier not to have goals or take personal responsibility, and to blame others. And then, separating out and anchoring Behavior, Capability, Beliefs and Values, Identity, etc., your client will very likely gain some insight into what the barrier to achievement has been up to now. There’s often a release of emotional pressure when they get to the level that unhooks the old behavior.

NOTE: Remember that the old behavior has a positive intent and purpose and it’s been serving the person. Honor the old behavior for what it was trying to accomplish.
NOTE: Sometimes I step a person up past the Logical Level at which they were stuck, which is what I was trying to do with Kelli in the exercise on Sunday. From the point they are no longer stuck at all, looking back may give them the necessary clues to unhook the old behavior.
NOTE: Step your subject up from Environment to Behavior to Capability and back again so he/she has clear anchoring between the state attached to each level.
NOTE: If you are getting resistance, step off the levels and go back to the reason for doing the exercise. Does your subject really want the outcome? Does he/she want it in a compelling enough way to do what is necessary to get it. In this case, that includes moving their blind spot into full view. This process will do that.
That sounds like a good basic frame (below). Let’s expand it a bit for everyone. We are using Logical Levels as an NLP Life-Change Pattern. One of the concepts we are working with here is that to accomplish any outcome, pathways through the brain and nervous system potentiate the ability and therefore the accomplishment. People who win the lottery rarely keep the money for long. In their programming, they have no foundation for having it or keeping it. A good question to ask is, “What prevents the person from already having the outcome they say they want?” Fully representing the outcome has not been achieved yet and/or secondary gain (usually a blind spot) has not been uncovered. The goal here is to experience the state of already having achieved the outcome. That’s all you need to be going for here.

NOTE: This will relate to your Breakthrough. You want to come out of this course with the Breakthrough/Outcome completed or at least the foundation so completely in place that you have no doubt about it’s accomplishment. So, you need (A-I-S-B) – Want to (Attitude), Opportunity/Expectation to (Intention), Energy to (State) and Action (Behavior). Stated more simply, you want your subject to experience the completed outcome first. It’s a little counter-intuitive, and it’s what we are saying highly successful people do. Model highly successful behavior. Most of us just haven’t been doing things this way until now.

Now, when you separate out the possible Logical Levels starting with Environment and anchor that state, the first thing you are sorting for is where on the Logical Level chart you or your client are operating now. You should eventually be able to recognize language at each level and match the person at their level for greater rapport. At Environment, you will want to pay attention to the language including “they,” “them,” “everyone,” “people do,” and other language referencing some cause outside the self, lack of responsibility or belief, and lack of a sense of internal causality as in “out of my control” and feelings that will include “frustrated,” and “apathetic.” Most of us will feel tense and frustrated although it is possible to find someone else (not us of course) for whom the state is much more comfortable. It can be easier not to have goals or take personal responsibility, and to blame others. And then, separating out and anchoring Behavior, Capability, Beliefs and Values, Identity, etc., your client will very likely gain some insight into what the barrier to achievement has been up to now. There’s often a release of emotional pressure when they get to the level that unhooks the old behavior.

NOTE: Remember that the old behavior has a positive intent and purpose and it’s been serving the person. Honor the old behavior for what it was trying to accomplish.
NOTE: Sometimes I step a person up past the Logical Level at which they were stuck, which is what I was trying to do with Kelli in the exercise on Sunday. From the point they are no longer stuck at all, looking back may give them the necessary clues to unhook the old behavior.
NOTE: Step your subject up from Environment to Behavior to Capability and back again so he/she has clear anchoring between the state attached to each level.
NOTE: If you are getting resistance, step off the levels and go back to the reason for doing the exercise. Does your subject really want the outcome? Does he/she want it in a compelling enough way to do what is necessary to get it. In this case, that includes moving their blind spot into full view. This process will do that.

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Daniel Pink, the guy who wrote the book A Whole New Mind suggesting the future will be owned by right-brained people has a video on You Tube. He says, “There’s a huge mismatch between what science knows and what business does.” He goes on to say that how most companies motivate people is outdated, unexamined and rooted more in folklore than data. His primary point is that incentivizing does not work. Paying people people more to solve a problem does not lead to more creativity or to achieving a desired outcome. Although rewards for clear simple ‘mechanical’ problems does work in some cases, it works in a surprisingly narrow band of activities. For tasks that require evne rudimentary cognitive skill, however, a larger reward leads to poorer performance. In the sweeter carrot or sharper stick model people do not perform better on tasks that require innovative thinking. They perform poorly and sometimes produce damaging results. His point is that bigger rewards are good to focus attention, but it is better to have diverse attention in situations that require novel solutions.

Here’s the video link that appears on the TED Network: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9YExtrinsic. (cut and paste it)

Bring Notions of Motivation into the 21st Century

Pink says the old Extrinsic model of carrot and stick, reward and punishment methods of motivating are not going to get us out of our current economic difficulties. The new model of Intrinsic Motivation that is supported in actual science suggests that we adopt the idea of motivating people based on doing the right thing because its more interesting, challenging, and meaningful to them.

Pink calls on business to adopt a new business operating system based on three principles; Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. He says management in business is an invented concept that is good for compliance. However, if you want engagement, self-direction works better. Get money off the table as an incentive and let people work on what they want to work on the way they want to work. Pink cites examples of companies who have taken on the concept of Intrinsic Motivation where productivity consistently goes up like Googles 20% work model that allows people to work on any idea you want 20% of your time. People work better when they do things because they matter.

Repair what Pink labels ‘the lazy, dangerous, ideology of carrot and stick motivation to autonomy, mastery and purpose and we can change the world.

Check out the video and say what you think.

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Answer to [nlpskills] eGroup post on Yahoo Groups:

Thanks for your post and request for more information regarding my thread on
anxiety. I’ve been doing an internet search and most what I see there is at
the level of platitudes with regard to eliminating anxiety. Some say do
meditation, but no specific information on how to do it or to apply it to
the issue at hand.

I’m really not sure where to start answering your questions. I use a very
simplified NLP time line based process to show people that they have control
over their emotional states. I don’t even introduce the complete model for time
line. I do it so often that I don’t know what example would be useful. Try
it. It’s very simple. NLP is subjective. You can’t get it by thinking about it. You just have to do it.

Either get (client/friend) him/her in touch with me OR, do it yourself. Ask your
friend/client to access a specific example of anxiety. As soon as your
client/friend accesses the state of anxiety, you should be able to easily
calibrate that. Ask where he/she feels the sensations of anxiety in the
body (this anchors the state). I ask if it is based on a future event or
past event so that I can determine if it’s anxiety. If it’s based in the
past, it’s something else. This is now simple. Have your client/friend
imagine a future moment far enough out to experience significant relief or
even laughability. Have them be in that future moment and experience the
full sensations of being in the moment, seeing what they see, hearing what
they hear, and feeling what they feel, etc. Experience the good feelings and
keep them. Now simply jump him/her back to the present keeping the good
feelings, bringing them now into the present moment. Break state and have
him/her focus on things in the room or other environment to anchor present.
Make sure you have a good ‘break state’ and then check your work. Have
him/her think about the thing he/she was anxious about and notice the
feelings are gone or significantly reduced. Future pace the experience of
having the feeling now different in a few future moments. Just suggest they
will continue to notice the changed feelings later today and over the next
days, weeks, months etc. .

This one is so easy and effective you will be able to determine for yourself
that it is effective. With a few experiences of it, you will gain
confidence that the pattern works amazingly well. In the event that you get
someone who doesn’t notice a dramatic improvement immediately, you will want
to do some ecology work. There is secondary gain and perhaps some good
reason not to let go of the anxiety. Every behavior is there for a positive
intent and purpose.

If you person can get relief from one event, she/he can get relief in
various other examples until.

I actually now have another simple process that I believe will be effective
in addition to the process above. Look for another blog entry, Big Toe Anxiety Eliminator.

Bill Thomason
NLP Success Coach
Certified NLP Trainer
www.nlpskills.com
www.nlplifecoachphoenix.com
602 321-7192

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