©2001 Introduction These three processes all divide our experience in different ways, fragmenting us into warring parts and interfering with our full enjoyment of living. Grief separates us unnecessarily from the rich and resourceful feelings that we have had with someone we loved, but who is now lost to us. Grief also divides us internally, between a […]
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Steve Andreas (From Transforming Your Self; becoming who you want to be, Chapter 13, 2002) External Boundaries So far we have been working with the content and processes that we use to describe ourselves, the inner workings of our self-concept. Now I want to turn to a very different aspect, our boundaries, which define the extent of our self-concept.
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by Steve Andreas©2000 Fairly often people object to having newly-minted NLP Practitioners doing therapy (even if they call it “counseling,” or “personal change,” or something else). Typically there are two kinds of concern: 1. “How well can someone be helped?” and 2. “What is the danger that someone might be harmed?” by an inappropriate method, or
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(at a few of the bends and dips in the road)*by Steve Andreas©2000 “I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning the day difficult.”—E.B. White From a very early age I have been blessed (and cursed) with a penchant for
by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.~A methodical approach to spontaneous change A friend of ours once told about a couple who had survived a fiery plane accident a few years ago. They both experienced the horror of the crash and the flames, the pain of serious injuries, the struggle to escape, and the relief
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by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D.first published in The Vak,Volume X, No. 1, Winter 1991-92, p. 1. Seminar participants often ask how a particular NLP pattern evolves. If we can track how new patterns evolve, we can help point the way to further useful discoveries and developments. Every pattern has many antecedents, and most patterns
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by Connirae and Steve Andreas Seminars and training are a way to gain many skills, abilities, and attitudes well worth learning. Since training is a significant investment of your time and money, it’s important to know how to identify excellent training as soon as possible, and to spot mediocre training in advance. We suggest being
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by Steve Andreas In recent years, Carmen Bostic St. Clair and John Grinder have proposed a number of distinctions and characterizations of modeling. A recent article (38) proposed that their kind of unconscious, second position, behavioral modeling is the only true NLP modeling, and that all other NLP modeling is of lesser value. Their book Whispering
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by Carmen Bostic St.Clair and John GrinderReviewed by Steve Andreas©2003 This book states, “Our intention is to provoke a professional high quality public dialogue among the practitioners of NLP, as an integral part of these developments,” (p. 348) and it is in this spirit that I write. I hope this can begin a fruitful and ongoing
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by Steve Andreas©2006 The Model Magazine, Spring, 2006 In a recent article, Robert Dilts introduced a statement by Carmen Bostic St. Clair and John Grinder proposing a distinction between “NLP modeling” and “Analytic Modeling.” Every field progresses by making new distinctions, so it is always interesting to examine them to find out what they can
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