The Five Ways To Improve Relationships There are five things you can do right away to change the way you behave in relationships. Stop trying to read minds Most relationship problems and associated social anxieties start with bad communication, which in turn leads to attempted mind reading. Mind reading occurs when two people assume [...]
Why is it so difficult? So many of us find it a challenge to say NO. Even when we know in our hearts that we are going to make life difficult for ourselves we still say YES or OK. What is going on inside when we say YES? That feeling of being under pressure with [...]
Unconscious Triggers Most people respond unconsciously to trigger behaviours from others. Think of the last time a partner, parent or sibling criticised you. Did you take a deep breath and respond calmly? Or did you feel stress and REACT immediately before you had a chance to think? If you reacted, it's likely because of a [...]
If you want to communicate with confidence, develop a habit of being outcome focused. Often, people focus on what they hope won’t happen instead of what they want to have happen. But the unconscious mind cannot process negative thoughts. The more you concentrate on what you don’t want, the more you'll get what you so [...]
LifeStream 6: Spiritual In a story which some of our NLP students have heard, G. Bluestone tells of an ancient carp that lives in 'Mirror Lake', and when questioned about life in the lake by his grandchildren he says: 'True knowledge is to know the wholeness of the lake rather than the merely the things [...]
LifeStream 5 Relational How many relationships have you created? Relationships are central to the human experience. Over the course of a lifetime, you’ll develop relationships with more people than you realise—your family and friends, casual acquaintances, co-workers and supervisors, business customers, your children’s friends and teachers, even strangers you interact with on the street, in [...]
LifeStream 4 Educational Curiosity is the desire for knowledge that motivates individuals to learn new ideas, eliminate information-gaps, and solve intellectual problems (Berlyne, 1954; Loewenstein,1994). Berlyne described curiosity as a uniquely human ‘drive to know' that motivates inquisitiveness and experimentation, and that underlies intellectual development achievement (Berlyne, 1966, 1971). They suggest that these tendencies are [...]
LifeStream 3 Financial Who couldn’t use more money? It goes without saying that you want to improve your financial situation and it’s not as easy as setting your mind up to increase your cash flow—or is it? You may be surprised to discover how quickly you can improve your finances with NLP. Most of us [...]
