Would you like to be able to accomplish more? Are you looking for a way to work smarter, not harder? Could you benefit from learning new stategies to make changes, learn better and adapt faster?

NLP New Code brings together proven techniques for learning and communicating more effectively.  In this audio recording you’ll learn to read the signs and develop a new love for the process of building achievments and developing personal and business relationships.

Discover how to recognize the signs of success and allow them to direct you to the next level of peace, prosperity and productivity. Travel with Master NLP Practitioner Chris Keeler through NLP to a life of peak performance and new satisfaction.

Track 1: The wolf and the fool (metaphor)
Track 2: The Way to Excellence
Track 3: Recognize the Signs of Success
Track 4: Experience the Signs of Congruence
Track 5: Working with the unconscious mind
Track 6: Passing Roadblocks
Track 7: Characterlogical Adjectives
Track 8: Change really is easy

Signs - NLP Techniques
Author: Chris Keeler (NLP Canada Training)

The fact is that when people communicate they access a variety of different areas of the brain in order to create internal representations such as pictures, sounds and feelings.  Knowing how the eyes move can provide critical insights for sales people, relationship building and more.

NLP works from the presupposition that anything one person can do, another person can learn to do (providing it is something of which s/he is physically capable). The flip side of this presupposition is the idea that anything you can do successfully can become a pattern for success in new contexts.

As you consider this presupposition, you will notice that it contains other beliefs about human beings; it contains, for instance, the idea that we are resources for each other. Our world is more easily influenced because we are not alone in it. Not only do we learn from each other deliberately: we also pick up moods and states from each other.

The obvious way to use NLP to meet a challenge is to find someone who is successfully handling a similar challenge and model them – observe them with such acuity that you can do what they are doing and get the same result they are getting.

There is a catch. In order to model successfully, you will need to be able to identify with your model – to find ways in which you can think, feel and act alike. This is hard to do unless you are feeling resourceful. Too often, we look at models from the depths of our anxiety and stress and feel the gap is much too wide to cross. It’s not. But it does lead to the first step in the NLP strategy for handling challenges.

Begin by gaining access to more of your strengths, skills and capabilities. If you are not feeling resourceful, you are unlikely to be resourceful. Without strength, flexibility, innovation or a sense of fun, you are also unlikely to meet your challenge successfully. In order to become more resourceful than you are feeling, you will probably need the assistance of someone who is already feeling resourceful. A coach can do this for you – so can anyone who is having a really good day and is willing to make a connection with you.

Once you are beginning to feel better, work the good feelings. Begin by moving: when you get your physical body moving with strength and grace, your mind is tempted to follow suit. Walk as though you were already on top of the world – and if you need help to stay there, then walk like a friend who has his/her stuff together.

Using anchoring, you can chain good states together and apply them directly to the places where you are feeling challenged. The key is to be so thoroughly engaged in your resourceful self that you make the challenges more manageable when you integrate the positive anchors. That’s why you should never begin with the anchoring process. Always wait until you have easy access to strong representations of positive states. Then enjoy playing.

Then begin to tell yourself the story of your success. Since it hasn’t happened yet, work with the real stories of challenges you have successfully overcome. You can be your own best role model. Stories are always most natural and most powerful when they have a listener. The key to this stage is to find someone to listen to your stories of success.

By this point, you might well find that you do not have a challenge: just work to do. If the challenge is really new or really big, you might need to go find new learning in order to meet it successfully. You are now ready to do what you need to do. Either get to work, or find a model who has one or more of the pieces you are missing.

You can thoroughly enjoy identifying with your model now. Just as you will thoroughly enjoy telling the story of how you met this challenge – with NLP!

About the author: Linda Ferguson, Ph.D. is a senior partner with NLP Canada Training Inc.,Toronto, Canada. NLP Canada provides intensive training in the practices and principles of NLP. Drawing on fields from the arts to business to neuroscience. Learn more at www.nlpcanada.com

Almost every class I train in NLP begins with the question: Can I do this for myself? The problem with running NLP processes on your own perceptions is that it is difficult to be two people at once. Most processes require one person to be completely engaged in a particular state and a second person to guide a change process. One person cannot play both parts simultaneously – at least not effectively.

Writing is one way to use NLP principles to transform your own perceptions. As you write, you can become fully engaged with a particular problem or obstacle. Once you have written, you can step away from the state you have created. You cannot be two different people at once, but you can stabilize one perception before stepping into a new perceptual position. Let’s imagine how this might work.

Think of a situation in which you were not at your best, a situation that is leading you to doubt your competence or self-management. You might pick a situation where you lost your temper, missed a deadline, or performed poorly on a test or presentation. Fully imagine that situation as if you were watching it happen now. You can pretend that you are watching a movie, or you can just position yourself in your imagination so that you can see someone who looks and sounds like you going through this situation.

Now describe the scene you have just watched. Like any writer of a good story, you will want to include enough sensory detail so that the reader can fully imagine the scene. On the other hand, it won’t be possible to fully describe this kind of situation: you will have to choose representative details to include. Aim for about three paragraphs and be aware of using short active sentences that contain visual, auditory and kinaesthetic information as you describe the setting, the people and the interaction in the scene.

Clear your head (and your state). Take a new sheet of paper. Now allow yourself to step into the situation again, this time imagining it as if it were happening to you now. Look out through your own eyes at the surroundings and the people. Feel in your own body the physical sensations and actions you experienced in the situation. Notice how quickly you can get back into the situation and stay there only as long as you need to identify all the details you will need to write a compelling description.

On your new sheet of paper, describe the scene in first person, as though it were happening to you. As a writer, of course, you are of two minds – the mind experiencing the scene and the mind choosing details and words. You can be curious about how accurately you can convey the experience without being caught up in the parts you did not like in the first place.

If the situation involved some kind of unsatisfactory interaction with another person, you might want to play the scene a third time, stepping into that person’s role and watching the scene unfold from his/her perspective. When you write it, use the pronoun “you” to describe the person who looks and sounds like you.

Now, this process might seem like a lot of work and a lot of time. By now, you might have written three or four pages and spent somewhere between 30 and 150 minutes thinking, writing and clearing your state. Think about the problem you began with, how many hours it has been affecting the way you think and behave and how many hours it has cost you in lost productivity or bad decisions. Although an hour spent writing feels like a long time, it is really just a very intense, very effective way of gaining perspective and detaching yourself from a situation.

Take another look at what you have written. Notice that it is now entirely separate from you: because you own all three descriptions, no one of them represents you. You now have choice: the choice to choose from among these perspectives or the choice to step away from all three (you can even throw the paper away if you’ve written on paper or delete the file on the computer) and choose a more balanced and resourceful perspective.

These practices – the ability to stabilize your representation, to view it from different perspectives, to dissociate in order to transform yourself, and to make new choices – are the practices of NLP. Writing slows them down a little, but it also frees you to make the changes you want for yourself and by yourself.

About the author: Linda Ferguson, Ph.D. is a senior partner with NLP Canada Training Inc.,Toronto, Canada. NLP Canada provides intensive training in the practices and principles of NLP. Drawing on fields from the arts to business to neuroscience. Learn more at www.nlpcanada.com