NLP - What It Did For Me - What It Can Do For You, Part 2 - by Rosemarie Blackthorn
In part 2 of her article about NLP, Rosemarie Blackthorn continues writing about her personal experience of what NLP did for her.
Rosemarie Blackthorn, attended the April/May 2011 NLP Practitioner
In last month's issue of NLP Life, Rosemarie Blackthorn wrote about the changes NLP made on her. This month, she goes on to discuss the further effects of NLP on her family and her life generally.
Since doing the NLP Practitioner training in April 2011, there's no doubt that my attitude has changed. I’m in the driving seat of my Life; I’m far more emotionally self-sufficient, than I’ve ever been. I trust my reality inner voice, now.
"...Six months after I did my Prac training, my 17-year-old son and I attended the Get the Life you Want Weekend with Paul McKenna and Richard Bandler..."
There have been times in the past when I would describe myself as suffering from depression, while I’ve been struggling with life events. My energy levels have been low. My household has ground to a halt. Now, I process things much faster. I now decide to moulder and then when I’m finished, I change my state and go and do something else. If I have an off day, it’s an off day. Before I go to sleep I think about how I want to feel. And when I wake up, I’m enthusiastic and ready for it.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that NLP was born in the States. It has that spirit of enterprise, the can-do attitude that the Americans I’ve met seem to have so effortlessly. It’s all about what you can do to create the opportunities that will improve your circumstances.
Six months after I did my Prac training, my 17-year-old son and I attended the Get the Life you Want Weekend with Paul McKenna and Richard Bandler at Wembley. I confess I struggled with some of the exercises that involved bringing back a negative memory or emotion in order to banish them. After my training on the Prac course, it was nigh on impossible for me to drag back all the shit. I hadn’t realised how much I’d packed away and put up in my mental loft. The negativity had just dissipated. There really wasn’t anything to look at.
If you ask me about the NLP techniques and strategies I employ in my day to day life, I’m going to struggle. No, I’m not thinking about swish pattern or anchors or Milton Model trance inductions. But the NLP has brought about a fundamental internal shift in how I live my life. I’m firmly rooted in my present, I’m making better decisions, my boundaries with other people are much better.
I will say the friendships I have now are much stronger. I confess that a few ‘friendship vampires’ have hit the road and we don’t miss each other. I’m inspired more by people, words and the world around me.
I’m currently single and NLP has helped me identify the time wasters, bullshitters and no-hopers and take positive evasive action.
At the moment, I’m taking some time out and I’m enjoying the peace of mind. That’s a huge difference; I value the peace of mind I get by being on my own and deeply resent intrusion of someone else’s mess. If I’m going to have thoughts of another running around in my head, well what can I say? They had better be worth it.
Because I know I am. 
