Become A Pattern Recognition Machine

Become A Pattern Recognition Machine: Learn Neurolinguistic Programming Do you want to cut to the chase and become a mastermind of you-know-you? Then, it’s time to become a pattern recognition machine. Picture yourself as your cheerleader, strategist, and therapist all rolled into one. How can you achieve this? Master the art of pattern recognition. What … Read more

Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind

The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind in Neurolinguistic Programming Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) delves deep into the intricate interplay between language, behaviour, and thought patterns. As we navigate through life, understanding the prime directives of the unconscious mind becomes paramount.  Whether you’re a coach, a leader, or an individual on a journey of self-discovery, gaining … Read more

The PTSD and Cortisol Connection

The PTSD and Cortisol Connection

Unravelling the PTSD and Cortisol Connection: Understanding Trauma, Mental Resilience, and the Path to Healing In the intricate tapestry of human physiology, cortisol plays a pivotal role as the body’s primary stress hormone. While cortisol is essential for survival, its excessive release can have profound consequences on mental health and resilience. Recent research, including a groundbreaking … Read more

10 Reasons To Befriend Your Emotions

10 Reasons To Befriend Your Emotions

When we befriend our emotions, we create a headspace where it’s safe to feel rather than distract ourselves with thoughts or external stimuli. When you feel emotions without judgement, you can develop a healthy relationship with them and learn to understand and manage them. If you choose this approach, you can benefit from improved emotional … Read more

The Many Faces of OCD

Many Faces Of OCD

OCD: The Unmasking of a Complex Psychological Compulsion When you hear the term OCD what happens in your mind? Does it conjure up an image of someone washing their hands repeatedly, constantly checking if a door is locked, or lining up their belongings on a table? In this article, I’ll be discussing the many faces … Read more

The Relationship Between Commitment and Disappointment

Relationship Between Commitment and Disappointment

When we make a commitment, we promise to fully engage in the experience, to be fully present now, and to trust that we can achieve what we want. Whether we’re making a commitment to another person, a job, our own business, or something else, our ability to follow through is dependent on the outcome we’re … Read more

Disease Starts From Your Emotion

Disease Starts From Your Emotion

In Japan, every school child is taught the phrase 病気は気から, pronounced byoukiwakikara which translates to ‘Every disease starts from your emotion’, or more simply, ‘Disease is of the mind.” This idea comes as no surprise. When I learned to teach the Japanese art of energy healing (Reiki) 20 years ago, I discovered the Japanese kanji for Reiki … Read more

Benefits of Supervision In NLP Coaching

Benefits of Supervision In NLP Coaching

Supervision in the coaching arena is yet to be a best practice requirement, as it is in the early careers of professional counsellors, clinical hypnotherapists, or psychologists. Personally, I believe the benefits of supervision in NLP coaching are numerous. What Is Supervision? Working under supervision means that a coach uses the services of another more … Read more

What’s Love Got to Do With NLP?

In NLP we position love as the only true emotion and every other emotion as an illusion.  It’s a beautiful idea, and yet if you find yourself in the depths of despair, it’s a challenge to believe! This video explains how everything comes from love.  In fact, fear comes from an over attachment to love.  … Read more

Non-Mirror Image Reverse in Neurolinguistic Programming

Non-Mirror Image Reverse In Neurolinguistic Programming

In training courses we often refer to the non-mirror image reverse in Neurolinguistic Programming.  Funnily enough, we don’t always consider what it means and what it refers to. The explainer video below gives you a 15-minute insight into the 2 main areas relevant to this subject.  The non-mirror image reverse relates to emotions, quantum linguistics, … Read more

Entering The First Platinum Age

Entering The First Platinum Age

Are We Entering The First Platinum Age? We do love to categorise eras using metals, don’t we? I cannot help but wonder if we are entering the first platinum age in the history of humanity. This idea amuses me since it could represent the first-ever balancing between our masculine and feminine energy (represented by gold … Read more

Brainwave Patterns 101 For NLP Students

If you’re already learning about NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming), Time Line Therapy® or hypnosis you’ll appreciate that much of the language work facilitates an expansion or a contraction of a client’s belief frame. The specific purpose being to ‘blow the boundaries’ on a pattern of thought, allowing the client to forge new neural connections and expand … Read more

5 Ways To Let Go Of Victim Mindset

Everyone Experiences The Feeling of Being A Victim At Some Point Anyone who embraces life with an open heart will sometimes feel like a victim. We all go through different aspects of being a victim in our life. It begins in childhood when we feel vulnerable and dependent upon others. Later, it follows us into … Read more

Suicidal Thoughts Are Part Of Growth

Isn’t It Time We Removed The Fear And Stigma Associated With Suicidal Thoughts? If your mindset enjoys a clear delineation between right and wrong, or you’re prone to fearful thoughts, I recommend you STOP reading now.  Conversely, if you’re flexible in mind and fascinated by mind exploration you’re going to find this really interesting.  In … Read more

5 Reasons To Invest In Destination Training

Engage Your Inspiration

Destination Training Is Now More Important Than Ever We live in a world where online training is becoming increasingly available.  In fact, the last 12 months have expedited growth within the E-learning industry. According to this research study, the global E-learning Market is expected to reach USD 374.3 Billion by 2026, with a compound annual … Read more

Addiction Treatment Free From Restriction

Addiction Treatment Freedom From Restriction

The Addiction Business Is Big And It’s Poised For Dramatic Growth In February 2020, Reports And Data released this article [1] quoting Globenewswire.com “The global drug addiction treatment market is forecast to reach USD 31.17 Billion by 2027, according to a new report by Reports and Data.” To put that into perspective for you, it’s … Read more

We Can Focus On Connection More Than Separation

Focus on Connection

Can A Focus On Connection Reduce A Need For Defence & Futile Competition? When we focus on connection we have the ability to see similarity.  In addition, we can find compassion and we’re able to feel empathy.  Conversely, when our focus is on difference and separation we often reject people, ideas and behaviour.  Indeed, this … Read more

The Battle With Belonging

Battle With Belonging

The Internal Battle With Belonging Belonging is a powerful driver in our core values and belief system, and subsequently, our behaviour.  A feeling of whether we believe we belong or don’t belong to a specific group or clique, community or family can create an internal battle that doesn’t always feel great. Our sense of belonging … Read more

Embrace Loneliness And Find Happiness Quicker

Embrace Loneliness And Find Happiness

Loneliness Relates To Our Sense of Belonging Loneliness can grip your heart just as tightly when you’re surrounded by a bustling crowd as it can in the solitude of your own company. It’s a deep-rooted yearning to belong, to connect, or a sense of disconnection that’s at play. Instead of evading these unsettling emotions, consider … Read more

Teach Me How To Be Strong

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Teach Me How To Be Strong “I want to know how to be strong?” said the young man to the old hermit, breathless from climbing the mountain to reach the damp cave. “For what purpose do you want to know how to be strong?” asked the old hermit. “If I know how to be strong … Read more

Nine Reasons Why Crying Is Good For Your Health

You Were Born With Tear Ducts For A Reason Everyone cries, it’s not a gender-specific activity. Moreover, I’m going to give you nine reasons why crying is good for your health and how it can benefit you in a multitude of ways. It’s an important part of processing emotions and healing from traumatic experiences. Whether … Read more

Laughter And Happiness Are Good For Your Health

Laughter Trumps Earnest Every Time

Laughter And Happiness Improve Health – It’s That Simple! When Is The Last Time You Laughed Really Hard? In recent years we’ve spent a great deal of time talking about happiness.  We hunt it down, try to maintain it, and worry about losing it.  However, did you know that laughter and happiness improve health? If … Read more

Productive Coaching Relationships

Productive Coaching

Productive Coaching Relationships Are More Like Match dot Com Than Tinder! This week, when I was working with a new client, I was reminded of what it feels like to work with a coach for the first time.  It made me think about the difference between productive and unproductive coaching relationships. When you’ve experienced a … Read more

Connection To Our Values Can Make And Break Our World

Connection To Our Values

Connection To Our Values At Work And At Play Is The Seat Of Motivation I had an interesting reminder about the importance and the impact of values in the workplace earlier this week. Namely, I was talking with a client about the challenge he was experiencing in his work environment.  Connection to our values can … Read more

7 Ways Gestalt Therapy Influences NLP

7 Ways Gestalt Therapy Influences NLP

The Ever-Evolving Landscape of Psychotherapy If you are studying or interested in NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), you’ll know that Bandler and Grinder (the creators of NLP) cite the work of Fritz Perls as one of the key influences in NLP.  Specifically, the development of the tools and techniques of the Neuro-Linguistic Programming suite. In fact, in … Read more

Relationship Between Epigenetics And Trauma

Can we inherit the essence of our thoughts, feelings, and emotions from our forefathers?  Furthermore, can they pass down through DNA like physical characteristics?  That is to say, is there a relationship between epigenetics and trauma; either emotional or physical? In the last 100 years, the world population experienced vast amounts of emotional and physical … Read more

Is Our Need To Categorise Limiting The Buffet of Life?

need to categorise

An Interesting Made Me Question Our Need To Categorise Our need to categorise is driven by a need to know or a need for certainty. This week I saw a comment on a post about insomnia. It got me thinking about how a simple categorisation can limit our ability to be unique; to pick and … Read more

The Quiz Show Mentality Around ‘Need To Know’

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Needing to Know Is Prevalent In Culture Everywhere Before our obsession with reality TV and contrived celebrity, our Saturday night television viewing used to involve at least one quiz show or game show.  These shows present questions to the contestants. If the answer the contestant gives matches the answer on the card in the hand … Read more

Virginia Satir And Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Virginia Satir And Neuro-Linguistic Programming

What Links Virginia Satir And Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)? Considered to be the guru of family therapy, Satir was an obvious modelling choice for Bandler and Grinder, the founders of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).  In fact, her five distinct personality roles and her meta model questioning process connect Virginia Satir and Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) at a fundamental … Read more

The 14 Presuppositions of NLP Practice

14 Presuppositions of NLP

The Canvas On Which We Paint Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a collection of practical techniques, skills and strategies which can lead to a profound level of insight and understanding of self and others.  Even though it’s not a philosophy or religion, NLP draws from many different teachings.  Specifically, within the psychology field, it draws on … Read more

What is NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)?

What is NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming

What Is NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)? In simple terms, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) delivers you a dictionary for your mind. That is to say, it’s the life map you needed at birth and you didn’t get! So, what is NLP really? In summary, NLP is a collection of practical techniques, skills and strategies that are easily learned … Read more

Time Line Therapy® Glossary of Terms

Some of the language used in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and Time Line Therapy® training can sometimes seem a little complex. If you’re learning, this Time Line Therapy® Glossary of Terms gives you quick access to the key references, terms and phrases used in the techniques. What Is Time Line Therapy® Training? Time Line Therapy® … Read more

Time Line Therapy® And Emotional Release

Time Line Therapy® And Emotional Release

Time Line Therapy® and emotional release therapy is a powerful healing technique that uses time-tested processes to help people move through their emotional pain and suffering. Through this process, individuals can release old traumas, fears, and beliefs and create space for new possibilities in their lives. Time Line Therapy® Offers A Powerful Emotional Release For … Read more

Does our strength come from our vulnerability?

Even talking about vulnerability can seem a little exposing, even today, some 10 years after the lovely Brené Brown brought it out on the table.  Actually, our connection to our strength comes from the ability to accept and acknowledge our vulnerability. Observations From A Reality TV Show I was watching the UK talent show “X … Read more

Your Feelings Are Your Power

As a child, I was a huge fan of the original Star Wars trilogy.  OK so I had a crush on Harrison Ford, and yet the concept of the movie is incredibly powerful. In fact, it teaches that your feelings are your power. Films Follow The Human Psyche It always amazes me how much the … Read more

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