The field of self help is surrounded by so many people that are looked up too as gurus so anytime I see a clip that is making fun of that then I like to take my time to enjoy it. This clip is obviously a spoof of a gentleman that I met a long time ago. I am impressed how they got his mannerisms and his language patterns down pat.
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Tony Robbins in my opinion is the Bruce Lee of NLP. What I mean by that is that just as Bruce Lee didn't create the Martial Arts of Kung Fu for that matter he did do a lot to introduce them to the general public. Tony has done much to fill this role. The entire personal development industry, personal coaching, etc... would not be what it currently is without his influence for better or for worse. It was from reading his first book, Unlimited Power that I first got into studying NLP. Sure I had heard of Hypnosis before but I had never heard of individuals such as Milton Erickson. So with that in mind I credit him with much. I will say this though the Tony Robbins of the 1980's and 1990's I never really much cared for. The Tony of present day... I like him a lot. He just seems more real to me. That's just my preference. Just real quick before I end this post I would like to draw your attention to Tony's use of language for state elicitation in this clip. David Gordon was one of the original core group from UCSC during NLP's inception. He was instrumental in modeling strategies such as how Erickson utilized Metaphors with clients, Behavioral Tasking and in later years he created along with Graham Dawes . The experiential array is a format that practitioners may use with relative ease in order to modeling experience. It's an interesting simplification of the infinite complexities of modeling excellence. The video clip below is from the DVD set that accompanies Gordon and Dawes' book on their modeling method entitled, Expanding Your World: Modeling the Structure of Experience. Enjoy! A long time ago I very into the Meta-States Model because from what I could tell it was one of the few models that attempted to teach the practitioner how to do what when with regard to working with people. When you first get into NLP the Practitioner Certification is suppose to be about teaching you the basics of the skills set. And the Master Practitioner Certification is where the training wheels are suppose to come off. This does not always turn out to be the case. More times than not in my experience I've witnessed individuals sign up for NLP Trainer Certification in efforts to find that one piece that they felt that they were missing. Even after Trainer Training I've seen quite a few people still walk out feeling as if they don't know what to do when. Based on these experiences that why I was drawn to the Meta-States Model. These days I'm not as big of a proponent as I was in the past given that I've come across other models and research that better explains the questions that I have been asking. However I will say that given a field that too often the training courses are reduced so significantly so as to practically render competency building a practice that never gets an opportunity to take place. Hall's trainings are a place that I would consider attending. In my dealings with him he has always been forth right and honest. And I do appreciate his constant focus on self actualization. This seems to be a very useful frame that he has set around his work. Years ago Richard Bandler developed something he called his, 'Drug of Choice' pattern. This pattern enables the users to recreate any 'Drug' state without any side effects. After the state has been elicited Brown does take some poetic license with the pattern. Essentially is the pattern to put their physiology in to a similar position as when they ingested the substance and then to notice the first place they notice sensations when they ingest the substance and then the next and the next and so on and so forth until it reaches a threshold where the feeling is fired off. You then look the feeling in efforts to intensify the state. In NLP it's not uncommon for people to be taught to separate positive intention of something from the behavior that someone is engaged in. For example in the case of a parent beating a child when you examine the positive intention you can find things out such as what was the parents intention in engaging in the behavior that they did. Sometimes the intention is something like they wanted to teach their children that they world can be a harsh place. The intention itself is kind of benevolent and yet the behavior that the intention is manifested is pretty crappy. I came across this commercial on you tube for a 'swear jar'. Typically I'm sure many know that a swear jar is meant to curb swearing however in this commercial it is actually encouraging it. lol In life we take the facts as we come across them but often times there can be more than meets the eye. It's always way to easy though to make snap judgments and they can turn out to be incredibly incorrect. As this clip below so aptly illustrates. Nobody likes to fail in fact I can honestly say that I have never come across anyone that relishes that experience. It’s painful. It sucks. It makes people doubt themselves and their abilities. It’s a horrible experience if the particular failure that someone is dealing with is horribly bad. Though like a phoenix rising from the ashes most of the time people get a second chance. And if they are smart and they learn from their second chance their next experience is absolutely less painful actually quite frankly most often their next experiences are pleasurable. Just as in the last Batman movie it was it was said, ‘It’s always darkest before the dawn’ the worst always comes before the best. But things do pass and if you fail well enough you learn to learn a great deal from your failures. And that’s a wonderful thing. Everyone fails, everyone does from time to time. You as a person just have to decide what kind of failures you’re willing to tolerate… the ones that are few and far between or the ones that happen more often. If there was one road that I could wish that anyone would take it would be the road of experiencing failure as often as possible because to me if you’re not failing and making mistakes then you’re not doing anything worth while. If you don’t want to make any mistakes then don’t do anything. The road of embracing failure is the road that is less traveled. Often it’s a painful and lonely road. But I’ll say this it’s the most fulfilling because as you are setting out to make mistakes you are not only learning from them but you are being who you are. Because failure is not always thought well of I’ve decided to include in this post a happy song to keep everyone’s spirits up. I came across this video clip from a fellow facebook buddy i'm afraid of publishing this technique because i'm afraid that it will become the next hottest thing taught (by unscrupulous) in NLP and Hypnosis trainings world wide. I can see it now this technique being taught in Persuasion, Seduction and Therapy circles world wide and passed off as a legitimate technique too boot!! To me primal scream therapy has got to be one of the weirdest forms of therapy that I have come across. Given my experience training in so many therapeutic modalities and meeting so many different therapists from across the world I still find it hard to believe that people still use this form of therapy. Oh, well I guess I shouldn't be surprised from what I hear some people still use Psychoanalysis. |
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