One minute the PC was working fine and the next minute it was as if an alien force had taken it over. Place the cursor over an e-mail in the Outlook Inbox and suddenly it would speedily scroll down through every header in the inbox! My immediate thought was that some malware had slipped through […]
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The NLP Master Practitioner Programme finished on Thursday – 18 great days of NLP in three modules from February through May. And, as the weather was great, we had a High Ropes session on Thursday. The High Ropes is a feature of many of our NLP courses including 5-day in-depth NLP Core Skills. When taking
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Many years ago, in my pre-NLP days, I was struggling to free myself from nicotine addiction. So I went to see a South London hypnotist who said he could ‘make me’ stop me smoking. He was a lovely elderly gentleman by the name of Lt Col. Crook and, funnily enough, his one session worked. And,
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‘Teamwork’ in The Apprentice Reading time 2 mins Last night’s episode of the BBC’s The Apprentice didn’t do any of the participants any favours – other than to make them better known to the millions of viewers. We again had a group of ruthless wannabe’s trying to prove their ability as managers, to a millionaire
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The BBC launched a new series of The Apprentice last evening here in the UK and so, over the next three months, 12 precious hours of my life will be devoted to watching it. I did try to ignore it last year but succumbed after, I think, the third episode and was once again hooked.
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We’re into Day 2 of the current NLP Core Skills programme. It’s a great group, as always, and as part of today’s schedule we have been exploring NLP and Rapport. And discussing how many NLP books and NLP trainings still offer the ‘matching body language’ technique as a method for creating rapport. This technique has
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Doom & Gloom (Part 2) – our unbiased BBC. Part 1 is here The BBC is internationally recognised as being a reliable, respected and unbiased source of information on what is going on in the world and particularly in the UK. Here in the UK every morning, Monday through Saturday, some 7,000,000 people tune in
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The end of the world is nigh (again) This month’s Pegasus NLP Newsletter explores, through NLP eyes, how the new media is reporting the current international financial difficulties. Using the NLP method of seeking the ‘intention’ or purpose or motivation behind that behaviour, we explore the possibility that the news media (newspapers, radio and television)
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I’ve just been to the annual NLP Conference in London. The conference has been running for about 20 years but this was my first visit after about 14 or more years and what a delightful and encouraging experience!
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This Toxic Relationship Game is about status. The expert player has a range of tools for putting you in your place (which is in a lower status to them) and all are based on knocking you down and then building up again in a way which makes you feel appreciative of their friendship and support!
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Looking for fans People who run the ‘Tell me I’m wonderful’ pattern or programme are looking for fans rather than friends. They regale you with tales of their exploits and successes and deals. The hint at their charm and charisma And they are very insistent that you listen to and appreciate every little detail –
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Like a lot of people I’d been taught at home and at school that you treat others as you’d like to be treated. And that, as a result, they’ll treat you well.
What I wasn’t taught is that this is an ideal – and that some people don’t buy into it.
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Looking back I don’t why I did it. Over mothered? Dropped on my head at birth? It doesn’t really matter, the point is I was prone to the odd tantrum. It is possible, painful though it is to admit, that I actually enjoyed it; wearing a little hurt on my sleeve as I bravely ‘soldiered’
NLP robbed me of my sulk! Read More »
NLP in Plain English? NLP has been around since the early 1970’s. And, among other things, NLP has always sought to improve the quality of interpersonal communication. Except, perhaps, in one area – the teaching of NLP, itself. Even in the early days would-be NLPers had to wrestle with a wonderfully obscure terminology including such
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Hold on to that negative mood… … at least for a few moments more. Negative moods are useful. They are, quite rightly, a target for most positive living approaches, including NLP. After all, remaining in an angry, depressed, or panicky mood isn’t much fun and there are lots of better ways of feeling. If you’re in a
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That NLP Lie-Detector myth (1) Reading time 3 mins Does NLP have a lie-detector technique? Can you use NLP to tell if someone is lying? No, you cannot! Yet this is one of the common myths about NLP i.e. that you can use it to tell if someone is lying – simply by watching their
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This week’s Pegasus NLP Newsletter discusses how we don’t need an holistic or mind-body NLP because real NLP is holistic – hence the name Neuro-Linguistic Programming. The Neuro part of the name refers to how NLP explores the the way our neurology and physiology impacts on our daily lives. The Linguistic bit refers to how
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Hot Buttons or Anchors Reading time 4 mins We did an online poll some time ago asking ‘what make you angry – what presses your Hot Buttons?. It ran for a few years and top spot for irritability – for people’s ‘favourite’ negative anchors has always been “being spoken to in a patronising manner”. Recently
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