Apparently we now heading into the season where a lot of people start suffering from SAD or seasonal adjustment depression or something… Nothing like a nice positive suggestion is there? (Notice how no one ever tells us when the most contented day of the year is?) So, in order to combat this supposed malady I [...] Read more »

I have been writing this blog for just over a month now and I find myself wondering if anyone is actually reading this! If you are please leave a comment, a short “hello” will do, just so I know you are there! ______________ “By a man’s finger-nails, by his coat-sleeve, by his boots, by his [...] Read more »

It was our regular monthly practice group last night and what a fantastic turn out! The practice group is really going from strength to strength and I must thank Bob for doing a fantastic presentation on “Who Dares Wins – Breaking Through Limiting Beliefs!” with his usual style! For more info on Bob’s work go [...] Read more »

One of the principle presuppositions of NLP is that “it is more often valuable to change the structure of an experience rather than the content of that experience”. Or in other words NLP is interested in HOW we do something and not WHY we do it. Traditional psychology (in particular psychotherapy) works on the principle [...] Read more »

NEVER do a psychometric test. Refuse to do them on religious grounds or something! Just don’t do them!! I despise this whole culture we are moving towards that we can pigeonhole everyone into these tiny arbitrary headings or definitions after getting them to fill out 25 questions. Really think about it, how ridiculous is that? [...] Read more »

Do or Do not. There is no Try! I believe I have just paraphrased Yoda there. But the little green fella had a point whether you are Star Wars fan or not. There is no such thing as TRY! Ban the word form your vocabulary immediately! You see, “try” suggests failure. If I say “I [...] Read more »

One of the reasons I took to NLP so quickly was it a was a practical tool that reinforce my own personal beliefs and gave me a way of expressing and utilising those beliefs. What am I am on about? Well, for about 10 years I have been a Buddhist. It all start way back [...] Read more »

The major basic premise of NLP is that reality is actually subjective, i.e., we create our own reality and therefore are responsible for that reality, but also we can change that reality if we know how. That is really what the essence of magick is. Creating reality to our will. Or as Dr Christopher Hyatt [...] Read more »

Well, I’m back! I have been busy for some time, running round sorting things out ad hopefully al to f that will come to fruition soon, that I will be able to share with you. That is the odd thing about doing this for a living, it forces you to be more altruistic.! If I [...] Read more »

Words can be a prison or a paradise. We create the world in which we live largely by the language we sue to describe it. This is the “linguistic” part of Neuro-Linguistic-Programming. One of the most common language “traps” that we fall in to is a “nominalisation”, this is when we turn a verb into [...] Read more »