NLP Nested Loops NLP Nested Loops is a technique that creates trance and enhances the hypnotic phenomena. It helps you to bypass the conscious mind and access the unconscious mind more easy. In this article you learn what NLP Nested Loops are, what techniques are at your disposal and how to create your own hypnotic, spellbound story that will bind your audience to your story. Let’s get started! A short introduction about NLP Nested Loops and Storytelling. Stories are essentially vehicles that allow you to express hypnotic ideas in different forms. This article is about making your ..read more

NLP Representational Systems NLP Representational Systems - Five Senses Our Five Senses We as Humans have five senses. We see, we hear, feel, smell and we taste. We use these senses to decode all the information that is coming to us in daily life. What do you sense? When you are talking, which words do you like to use? In other words, what kinds of representational system words do you use? Are those visual, auditory or kinesthetic words? Or maybe even olfactory or gustatory? In the NLP Representational Systems breaks down into five major chunks: Visual – Seeing, creating pictures, remem ..read more

NLP Submodailities In NLP Submodalities, the special sensory qualities perceived by each of the five senses. For example: visual submodalities include color, shape, movement, brightness, depth etc., auditory sub-modalities include volume, pitch, tempo, etc., kinesthetic sub-modalities include pressure, temperature, texture, location, etc. Examples First of all to start with, some example properties of each modality out of the Representational System. Visual: picture, slides or movie, bright or dim, size (relative to life), near or far, focussed or unfocussed etc. Auditory: left or r ..read more

NLP Meta Model and Rapport Guess what, usage of the NLP Meta Model and Rapport can be dangerous! The Meta-Model can easily reduce or break rapport. Actually it requires that the subject you are talking with break or reduce rapport with you by themselves, by tuning out the world and searching in their minds. By tuning out the world, they are reducing sensory contact with you while they do lots of deeper and deeper searches through their internal experience to answer your questions. Your aim in working with clients is to make the information they output verbally complete. Remember that w ..read more

NLP Olfactory In NLP Olfactory is one part of the Representational System. An example is: “Smelling how great that apple-pie smells!”. Or maybe a more nasty one: “It smells like dogshit!”. There are legions more. Just say only think about food and the smell of it and a legion of examples will popup.Olfactory is relating to smell or the sense of smell. Olfactory events, smell you experience are accompanied most of the time with Kinestethic events. The smell of a specific product will give you a specific feeling. Therefore Olfactory breaks down into two parts: Internal and External ..read more

NLP Kinesthetic In NLP Kinesthetic is one part of the Representational System. In NLP Kinesthetic break down into two general parts; Internal and External. Examples of Internal feelings are feeling happy, grateful and joy. In conclusion you will find legions more. Examples of External feelings are; feeling the wind on your skin, feeling the sun on your skin. So every feeling that comes from the inside is called Kinesthetic Internal and every feeling that comes from the outside, we call in NLP Kinesthetic External. Some Explanation Now, a lot of articles associate the Kinesthetic p ..read more

NLP Syntactic Ambiguity In NLP Syntactic Ambiguity is unexpected vague and does not ‘follow the rules’. Improper pauses, rambling sentences and incomplete sentences. All of which ultimately force the listener to ‘mind read’. “Hand me your watch … how quickly you go into a trance.” So, Syntactic Ambiguity is where the function (syntactic) of a word cannot be immediately determined from the immediate context. Take a transitive verb, add “ing” after it and place it before a noun. They were milking cows”, “They are visiting relatives“, 
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NLP Rapport In NLP Rapport is the presence of trust, harmony and cooperation in a relationship. Rapport is created and maintained on different levels. Guess what, the usage Rapport can be dangerous! Asking the wrong questions can easily reduce or break rapport. We already explained in some other posts how to train yourself in utilising the same representational system as the partner you are having a conversation with. Actually it requires that the person you are talking with break or reduce rapport with you by themselves. By tuning out the world and searching in their minds. By ..read more

NLP Phonological Ambiguity In NLP Phonological Ambiguity is best described as words that sound the same but have a different meaning. Utilising Phonological Ambiguities forces the brain to think for a moment. It needs to interpret the contect of the sentence and place the ambiguity of the Phonological Ambiguity in the right contect. As a result the sender of the message made the receiver of it think for a second or so. Take the following example sentence: “I watch you which maybe is a good thing.”. Several things happen in this sentence. Let’s do a little bit of disecting this sentence. I ..read more

Responsible use of the Meta Model Responsible use of the Meta Model is one of the foundations we learn people in our Trainings. As NLP as a technology constantly develops and evolves, we constantly update our knowledge by training at least once a year directly with the Society of NLP. It is critical to know the difference between asking questions to clarify your own understanding of someone else’s model, and asking questions to challenge their model. Even if I do, I always want to know when I have moved from one to another. Even if the line seems very gray, you can tell when you have mad ..read more