by Connirae Andreas, Ph.D. and Tamara Andreas, MM, ©1991 first published in Anchor Point, Feb. 1991 (Vol 5 No 2) – with minor edits April 2006 “Perceptual Positions” has been an important and useful distinction in NLP, one that can be used to enhance our flexibility, wisdom and resourcefulness. There are three major perceptual positions: […]
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by Steve and Connirae Andreas ©2000 Introduction Over 200 years ago, Robert Burns wrote the following (in modern English): Oh, would some power the gift to give us, To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion. The ability to experience ourselves as someone else does
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by Steve Andreas & Connirae Andreas, Ph.D. One of the fundamental presuppositions of NLP is that “There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.” That’s a nice thought, and it points in a very useful direction. However, for a majority of people it’s just a cute sentence that doesn’t automatically change their experience or
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by Steve Andreas ©2004 “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” — Shakespeare (Hamlet) Introduction In English, there are two basic meanings for the word “judgement.” One meaning is clear thinking–to be able to perceive a situation, gather information, assess it, and come to a conclusion or decision, as in
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By Steve Andreas NLP can help you do the ‘briefest’ therapy Published in: Psychotherapy Networker, November/December, 2007, pp. 63-67 Recently I watched a public demonstration at a large psychotherapy conference conducted by a celebrated therapist with a female clinician in her forties. The therapist connected quickly with full attention, warmth, humor, understanding, and many other
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by Steve Andreas ©2002 This is chapter 11 of Steve’s book: Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be. An earlier version was published in Anchor Point, Vov. 16, No. 7, July, pp. 4-13 When people speak of a “negative self-concept,” what they usually mean is that someone has a self-concept that is negatively-valued.
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by Steve Andreas ©2002 Excerpt from the book, Transforming Your Self: becoming who you want to be We have been exploring the impact and the interaction of both process and content variables in making a quality of your self-concept durable and responsive to feedback. We have also explored the importance of integrating counterexamples, and
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by Steve Andreas ©1998 Introduction In their recent Anchor Point article (September 1998, pp 33-37), Michael Hall and Debra Lederer present a procedure which they call “The Kinesthetic Swish Pattern.” I am sure that the pattern they present is useful to clients, since it includes the following elements or patterns: 1. “At least” four spatial
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by Steve and Connirae Andreas ©2002 “I had just learned your grief process in 1990 when my father had a heart attack. I was with him in the hospital for three days until he died. He was already brain dead when I arrived at the hospital, and the process of his death…I’ll simply describe as
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