Archive for July 2010

NLP and Sensual Understanding, the 3rd dimension in Coaching?

Peter July 29, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Open yourself up to the possibility…. In the course of my sports coaching I teach cricket to primary school children in curriculum time. Now, not all the pupils are going to view learning cricket with much enthusiasm for a variety of reasons – from not ...

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Extra-ordinary rewards.

Peter July 27, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Someone asked me recently which I preferred – coaching or therapy. And I found it particularly difficult to give them a straight answer. Each involves communication, rapport, understanding, influence, instruction, guidance, correction, revelation, patience, humility, honesty, clarity….well, I could go on for there’s a lot ...

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So what was it you wanted to see me about?

Peter July 25, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This is Part 2 of my initial interview with the client who writes and performs comedy. ….having pointed out to this client that unbeknownst to her she is a ‘hypnotist’, she ploughed on with her journey of discovery! “So what is NLP?” was her next ...

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Consciously, everything is an altered state – isn’t it?

Peter July 25, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I met a new client who is a comedy writer and performer. This blog is what happened in Part 1 of my initial interview with her. In the course of chatting with her I asked if she’d ever had hypnotherapy and if so how was ...

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What happens when we have too much choice?

Peter July 24, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

This is a great and meaningful TED talk by Barry Schwarz on the paradox of choice. http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_choice.html In essence he concludes that the more choice we have, there is a finite point beyond which we actually become miserable and disaffected by this so-called “freedom to ...

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Not really a re-launch!

Peter July 21, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’m on something of a publicity drive on my book “Don’t Think of a Black Cat” at the moment. It’s not really a re-launch though, more (in recorded music industry parlance) along the lines of re-issuing “back catalogue”. What’s different? Well the price of both ...

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Did I get what I wanted with NLP?

Peter July 21, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

Normally my interaction on sundry forums involves short posts, but occasionally I am more expansive. Recently, on NLP Connections, there was a thread which questioned “Did you get the results you were after when you first connected with NLP? Were you overjoyed – disappointed – ...

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The Meaning, the Words and Music

Peter July 4, 2010 Post Comment Uncategorised

An online friend posted this quote today which got me musing and contemplating:- The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you ...

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