Changing people in 10 minutes

This morning I travelled to Hull to a breakfast meeting where I did a presentation on NLP and a demonstration with two people who experienced a change in their thought processing and how by playing with memory framework, it's possible to 'set the feeling' differently for a context or circumstance that is traditionally challenging.

A fascinating topic

It's great having such a fascinating topic, like NLP, to discuss and 'make it real' for people who have not experienced NLP previously but upon having that experience, become interested in what could be achieveable.The possibilities are endless.

Upon the volunteers coming forward, both male, I explained the process we were to go through. It was agreed that they would both at some point close their eyes to remember an event that they would choose and upon listening to my questions, they would answer accordingly. Not needing to know about the 'content' of the chosen situation or a requirement of the subject to 'poor your heart out' (that's the beauty of the techniques) they each selected a challenging context and answered questions about their memory of it. I then gave them further instruction to make some changes to how the memory is structured and after issuing further instructions based on their answers their verbal description of how they 'felt' shifted from 'nervous to 'calmer' in one instant and the other too had a positive shift. Both agreed that they 'preferred' the way they thought post changes.

Your future 'vision'

In understanding that the memory framework is changeable, it is valuable if you're into personal development, to know that in the creation of your future 'vision' you can also tie 'preferred' feelings to situations that may occur. For example, public speaking and cold calling or a tough meeting where the right behaviour and qualities would enahance your chance of success - as these events all happen in the future, you can 'create' a behavioural strategy for that situation and have the qualities you want to have at that time. As NLP has, according to some, become synonymous with 'therapy' and it is not often seen as a tool that enhances performance of existing qualities and skill levels.

Increased personal performance!

If you were to think about how your own performance rates right now, where and what is it you could improve and knowing now how you are able to go about tackling those tough parts of your job with pre-chosen behaviours, then and only then do you realise what might be possible and what realising your potential might really be like?