What a great start to the new year; the Memory Palace Technique that we practiced during our January practice group session was an unbelievable success, we all knew we would be able to pick up the technique using VAKOG and Visualisations and I would add that none of us realised the results using this technique would bring
If you missed this session, come along to the February practice group session. Below you will find a link to a great NLP website and magazine:
ANLP is The Association for Neuro Linguistic Programming, a Social Enterprise (Community Interest Company) which exists to represent an impartial and independent voice for NLP. Our aim is to maintain standards and encourage best practice amongst NLP Professionals and inform the public about the benefits and applications of NLP.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
Memory Palace
The Memory Palace is one of the most powerful memory techniques available. It is easy to learn and fun! The Memory Palace technique is based on the fact that we remember the details of the places we know; our home, palace of work or local street, etc. You can use the memory palace to remember a wide range of subjects.
Memory Palace Technique
1. Choose Your Palace – a place you know well this could be a building or street
Pick a palace you know well, you have to be very familiar with this place as you need to be able to walk around your palace in your minds eye, feeling associated, seeing it from your eyes as if you were there now.
Start from the beginning of your palace and walk around it taking a specific route, recalling everything you can see; a painting on the wall, a chair, etc.
2. List All The Distinctive Features
Start again, noticing all the details of your palace; what is the first thing you can see (a door as an example – what color is the door, where is the letter box? Etc) what can you see next? As you walk into new rooms, it is good to follow a pattern, as an example looking through your room from left to right.
What do you notice first as you enter each room, what stands out? Make a mental note of everything you see.
• It is good to physically walk through your real palace to take in all the detail of each room.
• Once you have finished, go over it one more time as you need to have the palace clearly in your mind
3. Associate
Using a “memory peg” (a feature from your memory palace; example door, picture etc) and combine it with the element you want to memorize; make this as crazy and unusual as possible use all of VAKOG for each item you want to remember.
As an example, if you wanted to remember a list of tasks/chores to complete, using 'your house' as your palace; you may look at your front door as see a giant bra stapled to the door blowing in the wind, as the wind blows the bra, it slaps you in the face and you can feel and hear the wet slap as the bra needs to be dried out (hang the washing out) as you walk into your house you feel something pushing against the door, as you walk in you are met by a giddy wheelie bin panting and jumping up and down like a puppy wanting to go out for a wee (take the bin out), etc.
4. Visit Your Palace
Repeat the journey a couple of times (especially if you're new to this technique), starting from the same point each time, paying attention to your memory pegs. Once you have finished, re-walk the route starting from the end (your last memory peg) and walking all the way through your palace until you end at the beginning.
Memory Palace Technique
1. Choose Your Palace – a place you know well this could be a building or street
Pick a palace you know well, you have to be very familiar with this place as you need to be able to walk around your palace in your minds eye, feeling associated, seeing it from your eyes as if you were there now.
Start from the beginning of your palace and walk around it taking a specific route, recalling everything you can see; a painting on the wall, a chair, etc.
2. List All The Distinctive Features
Start again, noticing all the details of your palace; what is the first thing you can see (a door as an example – what color is the door, where is the letter box? Etc) what can you see next? As you walk into new rooms, it is good to follow a pattern, as an example looking through your room from left to right.
What do you notice first as you enter each room, what stands out? Make a mental note of everything you see.
• It is good to physically walk through your real palace to take in all the detail of each room.
• Once you have finished, go over it one more time as you need to have the palace clearly in your mind
3. Associate
Using a “memory peg” (a feature from your memory palace; example door, picture etc) and combine it with the element you want to memorize; make this as crazy and unusual as possible use all of VAKOG for each item you want to remember.
As an example, if you wanted to remember a list of tasks/chores to complete, using 'your house' as your palace; you may look at your front door as see a giant bra stapled to the door blowing in the wind, as the wind blows the bra, it slaps you in the face and you can feel and hear the wet slap as the bra needs to be dried out (hang the washing out) as you walk into your house you feel something pushing against the door, as you walk in you are met by a giddy wheelie bin panting and jumping up and down like a puppy wanting to go out for a wee (take the bin out), etc.
4. Visit Your Palace
Repeat the journey a couple of times (especially if you're new to this technique), starting from the same point each time, paying attention to your memory pegs. Once you have finished, re-walk the route starting from the end (your last memory peg) and walking all the way through your palace until you end at the beginning.
Friday, 3 December 2010
December Practice Group Session
After having a chat with some of our regulars last month, we have decided that in the spirit of the festive season we would like to hold our December practice group in the comfort of a nice warm pub where we can clink glasses and enjoy a nice 'round the table' chat about our favourite subject - NLP!!!
So, on Wednesday 8th December we shall be meeting in the Elizabethan pub, Heaton Moor at the earlier time of 6pm.
The Elizabethen Pub
33 Heaton Moor Road,
Heaton Moor, Stockport,
Greater Manchester
SK4 4PB
So, on Wednesday 8th December we shall be meeting in the Elizabethan pub, Heaton Moor at the earlier time of 6pm.
The Elizabethen Pub
33 Heaton Moor Road,
Heaton Moor, Stockport,
Greater Manchester
SK4 4PB
Monday, 1 November 2010
Circle of Excellence - technique two
The Circle of Excellence is one of the most popular NLP techniques taught on the NLP practitioner course. How would it feel to really master this fantastic NLP technique? Would it benefit you or your clients to be an expert at anchoring positive emotions? If you could instantly access confidence or any other positive emotion, how would this improve your life, career or even your delivery of presentations?
For the members who have been around since the beginning of the practice group, you will remember that we have practiced CEO previously, this month we will use a new version of the CEO to add extra tools to your NLP belt.
The C.O.E. can be used to summon up the confidence to perform a skill of task to the very best of your ability. You can use it if you have a fear of public speaking, before an interview or important meeting, to play your best shot in sport and in many other instances.
Practising the Circle of Excellence.
1. The Situation. First think of a situation when you would like to feel your most resourceful self, for example, when giving a group presentation, when attending an important interview or when being a guess speaker.
2. The Circle. Draw an imaginary circle on the ground in front of you.
Ask:
• How thick is your circle?
• What colour is your circle?
3. Relive Confidence. Stand up and let yourself go back in your memory to a time when you were feeling very confident (or any other positive state). Get back to it strongly; see what you saw and hear what you heard. Notice what you are feeling and how good it feels reliving that moment...
4. Project the feelings into the circle. Imagine that you could take all those positive feelings from inside you and project them into the circle. How will you be able to do that? How would it look if you could project your feelings into the circle? Take your positive state and project them into the CEO.
5. See your state. As you look at the CEO, visualise your state, what does it look like? How is your state symbolised? What colour is it? Does it move? In which direction does it travel? At what speed does it travel? How does your state sound? It you could smell the state, what does it smell like? Does it have a taste? Is their a temperature to your state? Be aware of everything you need to know about your state.
6. Build the state up. Build up the state, make the colours more intense, brighter and stronger, see the speed of your state increase, and notice how the smell and taste becomes stronger, hear the sound of the state clearly. Once your state is at its peak, step into the COE and feel the power of the emotions as they surround you, breath it in and let this strong emotion run through your body. Notice the feeling running through your body making you more confident- enjoy this feeling fully.
7. 2nd Anchor. Enjoy this feeling, if you could describe this feeling with a word, symbol or even a facial expression or gesture, what would it be? Before the strength of the state reduces, step out of the COE living the positive feeling in the CEO, remembering the Anchored word, symbol or expression/gesture.
8. Break State. Shake off and break state.
9. Adding new states. To make the CEO stronger, repeat the exercise steps 3-6 two more times each time notice how much stronger and more powerful the CEO becomes. You can also use and add new emotions and states. As you step into the CEO for the second and third time, you will see the colours, smell and speed, etc, of the positive emotions. Remember your anchors; the words, symbols or expression/gestures.
10. Future use. Think about a time in the future, when you could use the CEO, See and hear what will be happening just before you want to feel confident. How will the scene unfold? What is the cue to knowing that it is nearly time to step into the CEO?
See yourself from your own eyes, from the future you, see the COE on the floor, noticing all the elements of the CEO and step into it, as you feel the emotions running through your body, notice how well you are performing; feel good as you see everything going as well as it could possibly go - better then you believed it could be.
11. Break state repeat as many time as needed.
For the members who have been around since the beginning of the practice group, you will remember that we have practiced CEO previously, this month we will use a new version of the CEO to add extra tools to your NLP belt.
The C.O.E. can be used to summon up the confidence to perform a skill of task to the very best of your ability. You can use it if you have a fear of public speaking, before an interview or important meeting, to play your best shot in sport and in many other instances.
Practising the Circle of Excellence.
1. The Situation. First think of a situation when you would like to feel your most resourceful self, for example, when giving a group presentation, when attending an important interview or when being a guess speaker.
2. The Circle. Draw an imaginary circle on the ground in front of you.
Ask:
• How thick is your circle?
• What colour is your circle?
3. Relive Confidence. Stand up and let yourself go back in your memory to a time when you were feeling very confident (or any other positive state). Get back to it strongly; see what you saw and hear what you heard. Notice what you are feeling and how good it feels reliving that moment...
4. Project the feelings into the circle. Imagine that you could take all those positive feelings from inside you and project them into the circle. How will you be able to do that? How would it look if you could project your feelings into the circle? Take your positive state and project them into the CEO.
5. See your state. As you look at the CEO, visualise your state, what does it look like? How is your state symbolised? What colour is it? Does it move? In which direction does it travel? At what speed does it travel? How does your state sound? It you could smell the state, what does it smell like? Does it have a taste? Is their a temperature to your state? Be aware of everything you need to know about your state.
6. Build the state up. Build up the state, make the colours more intense, brighter and stronger, see the speed of your state increase, and notice how the smell and taste becomes stronger, hear the sound of the state clearly. Once your state is at its peak, step into the COE and feel the power of the emotions as they surround you, breath it in and let this strong emotion run through your body. Notice the feeling running through your body making you more confident- enjoy this feeling fully.
7. 2nd Anchor. Enjoy this feeling, if you could describe this feeling with a word, symbol or even a facial expression or gesture, what would it be? Before the strength of the state reduces, step out of the COE living the positive feeling in the CEO, remembering the Anchored word, symbol or expression/gesture.
8. Break State. Shake off and break state.
9. Adding new states. To make the CEO stronger, repeat the exercise steps 3-6 two more times each time notice how much stronger and more powerful the CEO becomes. You can also use and add new emotions and states. As you step into the CEO for the second and third time, you will see the colours, smell and speed, etc, of the positive emotions. Remember your anchors; the words, symbols or expression/gestures.
10. Future use. Think about a time in the future, when you could use the CEO, See and hear what will be happening just before you want to feel confident. How will the scene unfold? What is the cue to knowing that it is nearly time to step into the CEO?
See yourself from your own eyes, from the future you, see the COE on the floor, noticing all the elements of the CEO and step into it, as you feel the emotions running through your body, notice how well you are performing; feel good as you see everything going as well as it could possibly go - better then you believed it could be.
11. Break state repeat as many time as needed.
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Reminder: Come and Share your practice experiences with us on Facebook!
Dear all,
We've joined facebook - Come and join us there!
Look us up 'Manchester NLP Practice Group'
or follow the link..
Facebook
Sandie
Posted by NLP practice group at 15:41
1 comments:
NLP practice group said...
Each month in between Practice Groups, we will be reminding members via email to update our Facebook wall with their practice feedback and experiences. We all agreed at the last session that the main reason for the practice group is to become confident and experienced in using NLP techniques successfully, so we encourage you to keep practicing whenever an opportunity presents it's self! Good look and we look forward to hearing from you on Facebook! Sandie :-)
14 October 2010 01:29
We've joined facebook - Come and join us there!
Look us up 'Manchester NLP Practice Group'
or follow the link..
Sandie
Posted by NLP practice group at 15:41
1 comments:
NLP practice group said...
Each month in between Practice Groups, we will be reminding members via email to update our Facebook wall with their practice feedback and experiences. We all agreed at the last session that the main reason for the practice group is to become confident and experienced in using NLP techniques successfully, so we encourage you to keep practicing whenever an opportunity presents it's self! Good look and we look forward to hearing from you on Facebook! Sandie :-)
14 October 2010 01:29
Saturday, 9 October 2010
The Power of Metaphors
Welcome back to the NLP Blogspot!
This month we will be exploring and practicing working with Metaphors.
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that denotes a certain object or idea is applied to another word or phrase to imply some similarity between them. When using metaphors we can discuss our experiences in creative and imaginative ways to allow easier understanding for another to grasp what the experience was actually like for us.
Here are a few exercises to get you thinking in terms of Metaphors:-
Exercise One
We often use Metaphors without even thinking about it. A few examples are: 'I feel like everything is getting on top of me', 'I feel like I could sleep for England', 'You smell as sweet as a rose' , 'I will cross that bridge when I come to it', 'I feel like my head is spinning'.
Ok, now have a go at describing how you are feeling today, using a metaphor.
Today I feel......
Now, using that Metaphor, ask a question to explore the Metaphor in greater detail.
Example
A. "I feel like everything is on top of me"
Q. "Does it feel heavy or light?"
Explore and gather more information regarding this metaphor so that your metaphoric concept can be fully understood. Remeber you control your thoughts; using your unlimited imagination you can create fantastic outcomes and get yourself in peak mental states.
Exercise Two
If you had to describe yourself as an animal what animal would you like to be compared to?
Q. Why have you chosen that particular animal?
Q. How does this animal represent you?
Q. Where do you see yourself - Where are you?
Q. What are the benefits of being this particular animal? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
Exercise Three - Creating a metaphoric story.
Working with a Partner
Ask your partner to think of a situation or a personal goal that they would like to handle using all their personal strengths. Explore the situation to get a more information how your partner would ideally like the situation to unfold.
Q. What resources or personal strenghts does your partner want to tap into?
Now, using your metaphoric imagination, create a story line that will represent the situation you have in mind. Use Metaphic content, for example; will you use people, animals or objects in your story? NB: Milton Erikson once used the character of a tomato plant to stand in for a man with terminal cancer.
Provide a solution to the story if possible or needed
Add a future pace
Present situation
A young man gets stressed at work due to the large amount of work he has to do; he looks at his list of tasks and starts to feel overwhelmed. He will start several tasks at the same time and not get many completed, leaving him feeling unmotivated.
Desired outcome
To be able to start and finish all his task on time. To complete all his task.
To be able to see all the task as individual tasks and to start one task at a time, to 'see' that he is getting through his work load
The Story
Many moons ago lived a strong man who had recently started a new job in a quarry. His job that day was to move a large pile of rocks from one part of the quarry to another. The rocks were largenand he was to carry them in his hands. When he came to work on the first one, he noticed how many rocks he had to carry and thought 'there is no way I can move all those rocks, not in one day', then he had an idea. 'I am super strong; I will carry four rocks at a time'. As he tried to pick up the rocks and balance them in his hands, the rocks kept falling off and he wasn't able to move any of them.
He then thought if I can't carry four rocks, I will try three. As he picked up three rocks he tried to carry them over to the other side of the quarry. As he got half way, his arms tired and he dropped the rocks and they all smashed into tiny pieces.
He went back to the massive pile of rocks and tried to carry two at a time, as he struggled across the quarry he noticed again just how heavy the rocks were and how slow they made him walk. Eventually he made it to the other side but not without realising that it had taken him three times as long to carry two rocks as it would to have carried just one.
Solution
He went back to the rock pile whilst trying to figure out the best way to complete the mission. Then it dawned on him. He got straight to work carrying just one rock at a time. This time he could walk fast and he didn't drop a single rock until he had got them all over to the other side of the quarry. He had noticed that by carrying each rock individually, he could see the rock pile getting smaller and smaller and this had kept him feeling really motivated.
Future Pace
A couple of weeks later the quarry foreman came over and told him how pleased he was with his work andion. The foreman was impressed with his dedication and motivation, so much so that he gave him a payrise and promotion.
Now create your own metaphoric story.
See you on Wednesday!!
This month we will be exploring and practicing working with Metaphors.
A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that denotes a certain object or idea is applied to another word or phrase to imply some similarity between them. When using metaphors we can discuss our experiences in creative and imaginative ways to allow easier understanding for another to grasp what the experience was actually like for us.
Here are a few exercises to get you thinking in terms of Metaphors:-
Exercise One
We often use Metaphors without even thinking about it. A few examples are: 'I feel like everything is getting on top of me', 'I feel like I could sleep for England', 'You smell as sweet as a rose' , 'I will cross that bridge when I come to it', 'I feel like my head is spinning'.
Ok, now have a go at describing how you are feeling today, using a metaphor.
Today I feel......
Now, using that Metaphor, ask a question to explore the Metaphor in greater detail.
Example
A. "I feel like everything is on top of me"
Q. "Does it feel heavy or light?"
Explore and gather more information regarding this metaphor so that your metaphoric concept can be fully understood. Remeber you control your thoughts; using your unlimited imagination you can create fantastic outcomes and get yourself in peak mental states.
Exercise Two
If you had to describe yourself as an animal what animal would you like to be compared to?
Q. Why have you chosen that particular animal?
Q. How does this animal represent you?
Q. Where do you see yourself - Where are you?
Q. What are the benefits of being this particular animal? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses?
Exercise Three - Creating a metaphoric story.
Working with a Partner
Ask your partner to think of a situation or a personal goal that they would like to handle using all their personal strengths. Explore the situation to get a more information how your partner would ideally like the situation to unfold.
Q. What resources or personal strenghts does your partner want to tap into?
Now, using your metaphoric imagination, create a story line that will represent the situation you have in mind. Use Metaphic content, for example; will you use people, animals or objects in your story? NB: Milton Erikson once used the character of a tomato plant to stand in for a man with terminal cancer.
Provide a solution to the story if possible or needed
Add a future pace
Present situation
A young man gets stressed at work due to the large amount of work he has to do; he looks at his list of tasks and starts to feel overwhelmed. He will start several tasks at the same time and not get many completed, leaving him feeling unmotivated.
Desired outcome
To be able to start and finish all his task on time. To complete all his task.
To be able to see all the task as individual tasks and to start one task at a time, to 'see' that he is getting through his work load
The Story
Many moons ago lived a strong man who had recently started a new job in a quarry. His job that day was to move a large pile of rocks from one part of the quarry to another. The rocks were largenand he was to carry them in his hands. When he came to work on the first one, he noticed how many rocks he had to carry and thought 'there is no way I can move all those rocks, not in one day', then he had an idea. 'I am super strong; I will carry four rocks at a time'. As he tried to pick up the rocks and balance them in his hands, the rocks kept falling off and he wasn't able to move any of them.
He then thought if I can't carry four rocks, I will try three. As he picked up three rocks he tried to carry them over to the other side of the quarry. As he got half way, his arms tired and he dropped the rocks and they all smashed into tiny pieces.
He went back to the massive pile of rocks and tried to carry two at a time, as he struggled across the quarry he noticed again just how heavy the rocks were and how slow they made him walk. Eventually he made it to the other side but not without realising that it had taken him three times as long to carry two rocks as it would to have carried just one.
Solution
He went back to the rock pile whilst trying to figure out the best way to complete the mission. Then it dawned on him. He got straight to work carrying just one rock at a time. This time he could walk fast and he didn't drop a single rock until he had got them all over to the other side of the quarry. He had noticed that by carrying each rock individually, he could see the rock pile getting smaller and smaller and this had kept him feeling really motivated.
Future Pace
A couple of weeks later the quarry foreman came over and told him how pleased he was with his work andion. The foreman was impressed with his dedication and motivation, so much so that he gave him a payrise and promotion.
Now create your own metaphoric story.
See you on Wednesday!!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
