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Open Loops
Like many of the things he said back in the 80’s, Richard Bandler’s observation that people often use ‘just’ as a way of being unjust initially puzzled me. And, of course and as intended, it opened up a loop which my brain continued to puzzle at until I got my answer – weeks, or was it months, later.
(How do I know it was intended? Because the Open Loops process is a standard NLP process for eliciting a deeper level of learning. And we use the process in our own Pegasus NLP training programmes. The Open Loops process is very interesting and was wonderfully highlighted by Bluma Zeigarnik back in the 1920s. But that’s another story… and it’s also an Open Loop…) Continue reading
NLP is great, wonderful, amazing etc etc
It goes like this; you’ve been interested in NLP for a while and have found that it has made a difference in your life. You’ve used it to solve some problems and make a few valuable breakthroughs in how you think, feel and communicate. And you want to let other people know about it.
So you begin enthusiastically telling them about this wonderfully effective and powerful body of knowledge and how easily you can use to change your lie and so on and on and on!
Already you’re getting sceptical looks; you’re beginning to sound like a born-again convert to some cult or religion. Continue reading
Good NLP myths don’t die
Yep, it’s back yet again – the NLP Lie-Detector myth or lie. I’ve just come across a Google Alerts’ reference to this NLP lie-detector article from Alabama’s North Jefferson News.
What myth?? You know, it’s the one which says that you can tell if a person is lying by whether they look up to the right or to the left when you ask them a question.
The Myth
In essence it suggests that if you ask someone a question and their eyes move up and to their left they ‘should be’ remembering something they have already seen. And if they look up and to their right they ‘are’ creating or making up an image.
So if I ask you a question and you look up and to your right this shows me that you are making up the answer i.e. you are lying. Simple! And false.
(By the way, there’s a previous Pegasus NLP Blog article about the lie-detector myth published in February 2008.) Continue reading
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