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How we programme our own moods

How we interpret events and then have feelings as a result of our own interpretation is the main topic in today’s Pegasus NLP Newsletter.

The article takes a look at how we attach meaning to what is happening around us and how the meaning which we attach then determines how we feel.

The NLP Meta Model

The process has traditionally been called “Complex Equivalence” in the wonderful NLP Meta Model. (Here in Pegasus NLP, in our quest to make NLP more user-friendly and jargon-free, we opt for the more descriptive title “Attaching Meaning” because this actually describes what is happening.

An ‘automatic’ process

Because we do it so quickly – and unconsciously – we rarely recognise that the significance which we attach to an event is often quite arbitrary. And, since we’ve been doing it like this for years, we rarely  consider what other possible meanings or interpretations we might attach to the event – unless, of course, we use the Meta Model to monitor our thinking.

This month’s Pegasus NLP Newsletter is about how Grand New Starts, such as new year resolutions, begin with lots of enthusiasm and then quickly fizzle out.

Why does this happen? Frequently because big changes can are so disruptive of our own lives and the lives of those around us that the drive for normality soon undermines our new resolutions. Read the rest of this entry »

This months Pegasus NLP Newsletter arose out of observing the differing approaches and styles of different NLP Core Skills groups when doing the Spiders Web challenge on the Low Ropes course – and afterwards reviewing their experience with them.

The Spiders Web challenge is web a made of light rope and is about 2 m square. The challenge is to get a group 6-9 people through the web without touching the ropes and only allowing one person to go through each hole.

This means that the activity does requires a degree of careful planning.

And most groups, at this stage, tend to polarise into two camps: the let’s plan this carefully and the let’s just get on with it! groups – something which, when they are later using NLP to review and learn from their Ropes’ experiences, produces some hilarity and lots of personal insights!

The newsletter explores how neither approach is the absolute right one – but that the let’s just do it approach tends to produce (1) more failures and therefore (2) more successes and definitely (3) more learning and experience.

This Pegasus NLP Newsletter article is online here: http://www.nlp-now.co.uk/nlp_newsletter_current.htm