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Dr. Bernie Siegels best-selling book Love, Medicine and Miracles grew out of what he had learned from his exceptional patients; those who lived much longer than expected, or who even became completely free of so-called terminal illnesses. He learned how some people were able to transform their lives to become free of disease.
In the same way, Neuro-Linguistic Programming has grown out of the study of the mental processes of those who can do something exceptionally well, or who have completely recovered from some difficulty. Most of us were taught to think of exceptional skills as the result of inborn abilities, traits, or talents. NLP demonstrates that by thinking about our abilities as learned skills, we open the door to understanding them more easily and teaching them to others.
The field of NLP is based on the realization that we create much of our experience by the specific ways that we see, hear, and feel things in our mind/bodywhat is usually lumped together and called thinking. This is how it is possible for one person to feel terrorized by a simple task like public speaking or asking someone for a date, while someone else will feel energized or excited by it.
Whats really new in NLP is that now we know how to explore a persons thinking in a precise way that actually allows us to take on that persons skills and abilities. When we really learn how to think about things the way someone else does, we automatically have similar feelings and responses. In problem areas in our lives, this ability to explore our thinking and feelings offers the keys to finding solutions.
In this book we give you a front-row seat, so you can experience examples of how NLP works with people to make their lives better. All the cases we present to you were either participants in our seminars or private clients, and all names and identifying information have been changed, except for people who also appear in our videotapes.
In each case we point out the major features of what we are doing, and present some of the major ideas and techniques that guide our work. However, we will not be teaching in detail. While we encourage you to experiment with what you learn here, we also ask you to be very cautious and gentle both with yourself and others. NLP is a very powerful set of methods, and anything so powerful can be misused. If you decide you want to learn to use NLP methods, we urge you to get thorough hands-on experiential training before becoming too ambitious.
We have three major goals in presenting the cases in this book. The first one is to provide a message of hope, by offering glimpses of the wide range of problems that NLP can often resolve quickly and easily. Like so many things, change is only hard and slow when we dont know what to do.
Our second goal is to present examples of the different kinds of interventions that can be used to resolve problems and make a more satisfying life possible for you. Some of these interventions did not exist a year before this book was written, and by the time this book is published, even more methods will have been developed.
Our third goal is to offer you a new way of thinking about how minds work, and show you how you can use this information to guide your thinking and make life more enjoyable and satisfyingand probably longer, too.
Steve and Connirae Andreas
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