NLP Articles

Dear friends and colleagues, 
 
This September, I'm excited to bring out my first U.K and US. published book in 10 years, GET THE LIFE YOU WANT: The Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming. 
 
You have all noticed that the state of the world is a bit tenuous at the moment - to say the least. People are running around like chickens without heads about jobs going away, love lives crumbling, and subsequently watching their health deteriorate. 
 

I specialise in helping couples with fertility issues.  In my private practice I often find that my client’s problems stem from beliefs they have, many of these they have been persuaded to accept by others.  The persuaders often think that they know best and express their views from a position of authority, and in some cases truly believe they are helping.  Their suggestions are accepted without question, you could say they are hypnotised into their belief.  And yet many of the people who take on these suggestions are the very people who are sceptical about hypnosi

 For whatever reason, when I first learned NLP I wound up seeing a lot of clients who had 'panic attacks'. The structure of a panic attack is an interesting thing. In nearly every case I came across, there was a defining incident - a time where things had been truly painful on the inside. It might have been a time of being out of control or when the person felt as though something was happening to their body and they had no control over it.

 "All of us have good and bad experiences; how we think about them is often what makes the difference between them."

-Richard Bandler

When I first began studying NLP, in the late '80's, it was generally taught as an eclectic set of therapeutic techniques. Despite the fact that I was simultaneously training to be an actor, it somehow made sense to me to become an NLP therapist as a way of putting what I was learning into practice. After eighteen months of foundering, it dawned on me that I really didn't want to be a therapist, but I still wanted to use what I had learned, particularly with friends and family.

NLP is becoming more and more popular within the NHS.

Doctors are using the techniques to communicate more effectively with patients and colleagues. Managers within the NHS are using NLP to improve leadership skills. Patients are being taught NLP to motivate them to take care of their own health, for weight reduction and smoking cessation.

There are a uniquely diverse range of problems within the NHS which are already being minimised by the use of NLP. 

Since I began my studies in Psychology and NLP almost 15 years ago, my focus was how I could become happy, successful, charismatic and make a real difference to the world. I started with this focus and now as I look back at what I have learned I understand that there are many vital lessons that teach us about how all of that is possible.