NLP

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I'm always on the lookout for good resources for NLP, and these are the best I've seen so far:

The User's Manual for the Brain (Vol 1)

User's Manual for the Brain, Vol. II: Mastering Systemic NLP

With these books on my shelf, I don't really need any other basic NLP books. They are a comprehensive summary and reference for the same NLP concepts, methods and techniques that you cover in your training classes. I like the way they are laid out and the information in them is excellent.

Salespeople, administrators and managers routinely take workshops where they learn neuro-linguistic programming techniques that trigger trust and compliance in their customers and co-workers. The purpose of this blog is to give you methods that you can use to stand your ground (without seeming to be in any way oppositional) when you are confronted with the aforementioned techniques. Following the fictional example below will be three combinations of methods that you can use to sidestep the specific sales and management techniques covered in the example.

Example:
Let's say the person using the management techniques actually is your manager, and her name is Ms. Jane Smith-Doe. Her goal in the interaction is to have you say, "Yes" to becoming chair of the conflict-fraught Committee for Relations Overview and Cooperation Know-how.

Ms. Smith-Doe's first move is to ask you how you are and put out her hand. Now, this seems innocent enough, and even cordial, and perhaps it is. On another level, however, it follows the principle that a neutral response is halfway to a "yes" response, and the easiest neutral response to trigger is an automatic one.

If you have Internet access and a computer at your office, some of the best hours you can invest for your business are hours blogging, updating your web site, learning and getting familiar with the industry online resources, and connecting with other hypnotherapists around the world via the Internet.

That's why for my contribution to the AAPH blog, I'll be aiming to bring you Internet places to see, ideas to blog about, and methods & resources to build your professional indentity on the Internet.

Of course, there are thousands of resources available on the Internet, and more new ones everyday, so a little bit at a time is good approach (which is another reason why blogs are so helpful: short, informative, and ongoing periodic little chunks.) I look at it not so much that there is far too much information for me to ever see, but more that the journey I take and the places I frequent on the Internet are what contribute to the uniqueness that is me and my offer to my clients.