Tricks Of The MindNlp, Hypnosis and mental programming

Posted by Karen Moxom at 16:20

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2012/02/anlp-launches-exclusive-benefit-for-trainers.htm

Posted by Karen Moxom at 14:52

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2012/01/nlp-conference-2012-dates-changed.htm

When I first trained in hypnotherapy, NLP and psychotherapy back in 1990, I took a course that was part time over 3 years. I learned lots of really great things, much of which I will never use! However at some level even those things I’ll never use consciously still have a positive effect on my work because they gave me a greater understanding into people and problems that arise within us.

But one thing I remember more than anything was one of the tutors saying how that when he was at university he had first learned hypnosis and had used it so that he could he could get by with only a few hours sleep every night. Basically he would use self hypnosis to suggest that he would benefit from the equivalent of several hours sleep in the few minutes he was doing self hypnosis.

I thought that was really cool! This was when I really first discovered hypnosis and NLP training and it opened up a world of possibilities to me!

The tutor went on to show how hypnosis can even help to influence blood flow – something which I started to use with myself for amazing results. I used to get nosebleeds that would last for hours, but after learning how to do self hypnosis and use suggestions, I was able to stop nosebleeds in a matter of seconds. I even found that when I once picked up a hot plate from the oven without gloves (by accident of course!) that I immediately suggested my hand was packed with ice and the skin would return to normal – and sure enough, almost right in front of my eyes I saw the burn disappear.

Many people hear about how hypnosis and NLP can teach someone how to influence people, but the most important area is how to use hypnosis to have a positive influence on yourself.

You can have amazing influence on your own physiology – you can influence your body and health at so many different levels that you probably couldn’t even imagine! You can help alleviate headaches, pain, migraine, stomach problems, your immune system and so many other areas as well!

Hypnosis and NLP can literally change your life! From improving your health right through to teaching how to develop charisma.

It can be one of the most powerful learnings that anyone will discover in their lives, but the journey starts when you learn in the right way. There are so many different places you can learn NLP and hypnosis now because it has become so popular. But remember you are working with your mind, so choose very carefully.

Tags: charisma, hypnotherapy training, NLP, NLP Training

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Article source: http://www.mackaynlpsolutions.co.uk/articles/?p=442

So it’s been a little while since my last blog…

Previously I’d been blogging pretty much every week, but things have been really busy over the last few months so I let it slip – but I’m back now!

And I’ve been busy exploring some really important areas – particularly NLP, hypnosis and health.

Just take an example – have you ever been working really hard and you never catch any sort of bugs, but what happens when you take time off – people often come down with something then.

It’s like your body knows when it’s appropriate to get something because you have time to relax!

That also doesn’t mean that a solution is just to work really hard for the rest of your life and never take time off because you think that will prevent getting any bugs! That would probably be a sure fire way to burn out fast and lead to worse problems!

Most people know that when they are under stress, the immune system gets lowered. Not only are people more likely to catch bugs, but research shows that stress will even negatively impact the DNA and cause premature aging!

In fact, maybe you know someone who seems to be stressed all the time and by the age of 40 they look about 10 years older than they actually are.

An opposite example would be a former Karate teacher of mine who clearly lived an incredibly healthy life and when I received an invitation to his 60^th birthday, everybody who went there had thought he was in his 40s!

So maybe people could forget the face lifts! A secret to staying young could well be to deal with stress effectively…

In fact on one NLP Practitioner training in London that I was running, someone had been holding onto some resentment about something that had happened many years ago and was still causing her to feel stressed. She had been holding onto that stress for so long that you could see the tension in her body and her face. I took her through a process to let go of the negative emotion and within 10 minutes she really felt it had totally gone.

In fact, not only did she experience the emotion disappearing, by her whole physiology shifted – it was like all the tension suddenly dissolved from her body. And her face also dramatically changed – it was really like she had had a face lift! Everyone in the room thought she looked 10 or 15 years younger. All the tension she had had in her face had caused her to appear older and more wrinkled, but the release let go of all of this incredibly rapidly.

If you want to know more about NLP, or if you are experienced already in NLP, reading and learning is an essential part of development. So I’ve put up a reading list with suggestions of some great books to read – follow this link for recommended NLP books.

Tags: NLP, NLP Training

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I keep hearing people saying how they’ve heard NLP can help you tell if someone is lying by looking at their eye movements…

It sounds like a pretty neat trick – I mean most people have seen shows like ‘Lie To Me’ and thought how amazing it would be to be able to read someone like that.

In fact, if you search the internet for lie detecting and NLP, you’ll find loads of different websites telling you how to tell if someone is lying by watching their eyes and other movements.

Most of the myth about lie detection with NLP comes down to the eye patterns. Basically, as you look at someone (who is normally organized – explained in depth on an NLP training), if as you look at them their eyes move up and right, that reveals that they are remembering a picture. If their eyes move up and left as you watch them, that is what we call visual construct, which reveals they are ‘constructing’ an image.

And that’s where the gross oversimplification comes into play, where if someone sees someones eyes move up to the left as they are talking, they think they are lying because they are ‘constructing’ an image.

In fact, I had a student who was on my course who went for a job interview where the interviewer had told him he was glad he was not lying in the interview, because he didn’t see his eyes move up left.

Now, this really is a dangerous oversimplification of the whole thing.

First, many psychologists say that remembering events involves a ‘reconstruction’ of the experience – which some people may do by rebuilding experiences and it may involve construction as part of this – therefore the eyes may move to the left for this reason.

Second, many people have memories where they see themselves in the memory (what we call dissociated in NLP). Now in any experience you have had in life, you never see yourself in it as you do it, because you are looking through your own eyes (associated). So if your memory has you in the picture, you’ve done some construction to get it – again construction may involved eyes moving up left.

Third, someone who is highly creative may spend a lot of time in ‘construct mode’ so their eyes tend to move up there a lot, but it’s not lying.

Well – I could keep going and going on with this – there’s lots more reasons it doesn’t work like this!

Also, there are no universal hand gestures or physiology for lying – if people say putting your hand to the mouth means lying, it’s really another oversimplification. In fact, the research into lie detection shows that people who are trained in lie detection perform hardly any better than at a level of chance – some of them actually worse! For example, metaanalysis by DePaulo et al (2003).

Now, there are cues that allow us to understand what is going on inside someone else, and these are things that you learn on a good NLP training, but it doesn’t oversimplify human behaviour, which is highly complex!

In fact, if you find a website claiming that it can turn you into a lie detector, if you are a real lie detector you’ll know instantly that site is lying! (Or maybe just not really understanding it!)

Oversimplifications like this can be dangerous – imagine the consequences in law of condemning someone as a liar because their eyes moved in a certain way, when they really are not lying!

That’s why a little knowledge in the wrong hands can be an issue – and that’s a key reason I encourage people who want to learn NLP to find an experienced NLP trainer.

Our next  NLP Practitioner course is October 15 – 21 in Islington, London, and I’ll be covering some of those finer distinctions in NLP that really help you deliver excellent results.

Tags: NLP, NLP Training, personal development

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Well, I have now been part of ANLP for 4 months and haven’t yet written a blog and with the new Website launch on Monday … now is a good time to start!

First things first … my name is Claire; I joined ANLP in October 2010 as Membership Co-Ordinator knowing absolutely nothing about NLP! My initial thought honestly was “What the heck am I getting myself in to?” I’m quite open minded really but I had never heard of NLP EVER! In this first 4 months of my NLP journey, I have discovered that some of my friends have heard of NLP, some of my friends practice NLP and my Mother in Law trained as an NLP Master Practitioner in Thailand! Have I been walking around with my head in a sand bucket?

Since starting my new job, I have attended the 2010 NLP Conference and have been on an Introduction Course. I have spoken to some amazing people, have been reading Rapport and some different NLP books and have actually started putting some basic NLP into action in my own personal life. I started to reflect on some past experiences to see if things would have been different had I have known about NLP. I have always been a very positive person and generally I don’t dwell on things especially the past as I believe  that if you’re thinking about the past then you’re not thinking about your future … and I know my future is very exciting because that is what I am going to make it. Does this mean that unconsciously (yeah, I’m using NLP language!) I have known about NLP all along? Definitely something I am going to find out about.

So where to go now? I think that I definitely have to do my NLP Practitioners Certificate sooner rather than later. I think I might explode if I don’t find out some more soon. I can feel the difference in myself already by changing small things in my personal and professional life. What else can I achieve by learning more about NLP? My journey continues …

Posted by Claire Sweeney at 13:39

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2011/02/my-nlp-journey.htm

After working with the Copy Advice team at the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for a number of weeks, ANLP has today published Guidelines for Members regarding the recent changes to the Advertising Standards Authority remit, which now covers websites as well as broadcast advertising.

Click here for general information regarding ASA Guidelines

Click here for specific ASA guidelines for ANLP Members

Posted by Karen Moxom at 16:51

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2011/07/anlp-publishes-asa-guidelines.htm

ANLP have, for the last few months, been working with the other UK based membership organisations to put together a definitive list of NLP trainers who are recognised as being able to deliver NLP Trainers Training.

The results can be found on our NLP Trainers Training page.

With the publication of this list, it will, in future, be much easier for potential students to run their due diligence checks BEFORE they undertake NLP Trainers Training.

If you are planning on taking an NLP Trainers Training course, we would encourage you to check this list FIRST, especially if you are investing in your future career.

Posted by Karen Moxom at 16:47

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2011/08/nlp-trainers-traininga-step-forward.htm

As the professional Association for NLP we were delighted on Wednesday when we were the first port of call for BBC TV looking for an NLP spokesperson.

They wanted our views on a new innovative app being launched. The new app released today “measures the sound you make with your voice and tells you what emotions you are projecting” very interesting areas for those of us passionate about NLP.

Watch it now

The call came in around 6.30pm Tuesday and Dee Clayton our Marketing Director was invited to the studios opposite the House of Commons Wednesday morning. Of course Dee’s interview was edited down but we were pleased to have the opportunity to raise the awareness and credibility of both NLP and the ANLP.

As a professional organisation the ANLP has a passion for the public and our members to continually develop their communication skills so we always welcome new tools and processes that make this journey even easier when they are used responsibly and with the best of intentions.

Take a look at the piece which aired on BBC South East news 6.30pm 12th October 2011

We haven’t downloaded the app yet – called EngageM8 so please let us know your views.

More information on the app can be found on the EngageM8 Facebook page

Posted by Karen Moxom at 16:47

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2011/10/bbc-interview-anlp-marketing-director.htm

The NLP Professional (£12.99, Ecademy Press), by our very own Karen Moxom, is published today.

The NLP Professional is about considering the field of NLP as a professional one. It is about making the connections between your actions as a practitioner of NLP, and considering how these can impact on your business.

This book questions some of the current practices in the field, and challenges whther these are ultimately useful if the desired outcome is to raise the profile of NLP and create a profession which has credibility, respect and recognition.

What others say…

“Karen Moxom has one of the most balanced and objective views of the current NLP Community” Joe Cheal, NLP Master Trainer

“The NLP Professional is a vitally important contribution to the future of the field of NLP” David Shephard, NLP Master Trainer and President of the American Board of NLP

“There are hundreds of books on NLP, but this is the first written to support NLP Professionals” Judy Apps, NLP Trainer and Author of ‘Voice of Influence’

Posted by Karen Moxom at 14:47

Article source: http://www.anlp.org/blog/2011/10/the-nlp-professional-is-published.htm