So, what is NLP anyway?! The name Neuro-Linguistic-Programming may give us a clue. Richard Bandler maintains that he just made up the name, 2 alternative stories exists: 1) That he was driving down the highway in his S-Class Merc when he was pulled over for doing “about warp factor 9” (in his words!), when the [...] Read more »

Did you know that if you smile, even if it is a fake one, you trigger the neurochemicals associated with a good mood. And if you laugh, even if it is a fake one, then it is even more intense. Go on, smile! And feel your mood change. Might be useful when sat in all [...] Read more »

Man, as am I pootling about during the day going about my business I will think of 3 or 4 things I want to talk about here in my blog. Then, when I sit down to write they all goes straight out of my head. I will have to start making notes, or improve my [...] Read more »

I will have to be careful; if I start posting too regularly you will get spoiled… And you will just think I have no work to do. I have too much work to do! And I am not quite certain where to start, so taking my own advice from yesterday, I have taken a deep [...] Read more »

Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring. The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!” “Like this [...] Read more »

I am not saying that intelligent enquiry is bad, in fact I whole heartedly recommend it, but these closed minded aggressive “fundamentalist materialists” as Robert Anton Wilson calls them frustrate the hell out of me! (For the rest of this blog I am going use the example of psychic ability, for ease of writing) Sceptics [...] Read more »

I’ve been involved in NLP for about 7 years now, I started off purely and simply interested for my own person development (as I believe a lot of NLP “practitioners” are, very few actually see private clients) and then started to see a few clients. As I went on I decided to get a website [...] Read more »

Phew, has it been that long since I last wrote? Sorry! I have been soooooo busy. First up my ibook went kaput. I have an old G3 ibook that is brilliant (obviously it is an Apple – I am total Mac Evangelist…) but was having a logic board problem (not bad since it is over [...] Read more »