Manzanita Village Retreat and Five Changes Coaching (Warner Springs and Los Angeles)

Caitriona Reed & Michele Benzamin-Miki

PO Box 67 Warner Springs, CA 92086 phone: (760) 782-9223

What is NLP anyway?

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Monday, June 08, 2009
People have been asking us about our ten day NLP intensive July 8-17. So here are a few thoughts about NLP.

Neurolinguistics (NLP) has been around for nearly forty years. It evolved from the work of some of the most brilliant innovators in psychology, personal change, cybernetics, and linguistics - though it transcends all those fields.

Like any creative discipline, it continues to evolve. It is a lens that can sharpen your understanding and practice of any number of other disciplines. And it also brings the latest perspectives in neuroscience and quantum physics into the realm of the practical, while being entirely complimentary to time-honored spiritual disciplines such as Buddhism and Yoga, prayer and meditation.

It’s not so much about techniques - though there are simple techniques that are truly astonishing in their effectiveness, and can bring about profound lasting change - in yourself or others. It is perhaps, above all, a way to tap into the recognition that such change is possible. It is a way to step aside, to let the magic of change happen.

A simple example: there was a time when it was considered that it should take weeks, if not months, to cure a phobia or certain addictions. Now such things can be accomplished in a matter of minutes. Does that sound unbelievable? NLP has been tried and tested for forty-years. And in other forms perhaps it’s been for as long as minds have been curious. It is an exploration of the change that lies at the heart of change, and of the ‘difference that makes a difference’.

And if phobias and addictions can be transformed in a few minutes, what can be done with negative patterns of thought and emotion - which may be little more than internal addictions?

Some people consider this to be the closest thing we have to magic.

Ten Day NLP Training

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