April 2009

I Don't Understand What The Problem Was - by Steve Crabb

Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem "IF" begins:

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

Here is an alternative version:

If you can keep out of your head when all about you

Are losing theirs …maybe you don’t really understand what th

Basic Hypnotic Language Patterns 2: Implied Causative - by Matthew Wingett

An Implied Causative is a sentence that puts together two ideas into one sentence in such a way that, somehow, you conceive of the second idea as having been caused by the first idea. The first idea doesn't actually cause the second, it's just that there's something in the way the sentence works that implies that it causes it.

TURN ON, TUNE IN, TURN ROUND - by James Moore

Prosperity for all?

The Miracle That Nearly Didn't Happen - by Matthew Wingett

Matthew Wingett discusses how telling a well-known metaphor using the right subject matter can get others to see things from a new perspective.

Although this article is about using a metaphor, it is also a true story. A friend of mine regularly uses her NLP skills in her work with troubled young people whom she takes on residential personal development courses. One day, she was working with a group of kids who had been brought to her by a Church organisation.

The Affair of the Roast Chicken - by Matthew Wingett

Sometimes arguments can be silly. Very silly. And they can get even more silly when they're with someone you love and care for, and who you also, by the way, just happen to live with. When you live with someone, you don't have to dress up in your Sunday Best for them all the time. Meaning that they get to see you early in the morning looking dishevelled after a late night out, or feeling sorry for yourself with a cold - and pretty soon realise that sometimes you aren't quite the perfect human being that you like to pretend to the rest of the world that you are.