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 ©2002 There are basically three ways that cultures maintain and enforce their group values. One is overt coercion, the threat or use of physical force, incarceration, punishment, or death to limit those who might transgress the values of a group of people. Knowledge of the rules, and the resulting punishment, keep people
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