NLP: The Meta Model

The Meta Model is a pragmatic communications model used to specify information in a speaker's language. It is often contrasted with the intentionally ambiguous Milton Erickson inspired-Milton model. The meta model was originally presented in The Structure of Magic I: A Book About Language and Therapy in 1975 by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, the co-founders of neuro-linguistic programming

It is used for gaining specificity, gathering info, assisting people in enrichening their reality maps, and it's the structure of nitpicking! It cuts through the bullshit, and is particularly helpful in therapy, discussions, arguments and seeing through salesmen, politicians, media BS and attempts for manipulation in general.

1) Mindread
You don't like me - how do you know I don't like you?

2) Lost performative
It's bad to be inconsistent - who says, how do you know?
it's a good thing to - according to whom?

3) Cause & effect
You make me sad - how does what i'm doing specifically cause you to choose to feel sad?
he makes me angry - how does what he's doing make you choose to feel angry?

4) Complex Equivalent
challenge it, how does one thing mean the other, give a counter example

she doesn't like me, she's always yelling at me - how does she yelling at you mean that she doesn't like you? Have you ever yelled at someone you liked?
Have you ever not yelled at someone and hated somebody?

You have no respect for my time cause you're late - how does being late have anything to do with respect, have you ever been late and respected somebody, have you ever been on time and disrespected somebody?

5) Presuppositions
If he knew how much I suffered he wouldn't do that - how do you choose to suffer, how do you know he doesn't know, how do you know he wouldn't do that if he knew?

6) Universal Quantifier
generalizations which are mostly untrue

She never listens to me - never? once? (exaggerate) What would happen if she did?
Nobody likes me - nobody? not one person?

7) Mobile operator of Necessity
I have to take care, I should go to school

What would happen if you didn't? - Expands their model of the world

8) Model operator of Possibility
Can, can't will, won't, may, may not, possible, impossible

I can't tell him the truth - what would happen if you did? What prevents you?

9) Nominalisation
Take the noun and turn it into to a verb

There's no communication here - who's not communicating what to whom? How would you like to communicate?
My relationship is terrible - what's terrible about the way you're relating?

10) Unspecified verb
He rejected me - retrieve the missing info - how/who specifically?

11) Simple Deletion
I'm uncomfortable - about who or what are you uncomfortable?
He never listens to me - who/never?

12) Lack of Referential Index
They don't listen to me - who specifically doesn't

13) Comparative Deletion
better, best, good, worst, more, less, most, least
She's a better person - better than whom, she's the best, compared to who
Your offer is expensive - expensive compared to what

14) Pacing current experience
if they try to link a yes-set, break it into chunks

15) Double Bind
If given two or three choices, create your own

Would you like me to stop by on monday or tuesday - wednesday :)

16) Conversational Postulate
answer instead of acting

Can you close the door - yes I can, would you like me to?

17) Extended quote
the other day I met... who said - what does one thing have to do with the other?

NLP: The Milton Model

The Milton Model is a model for indirect interpersonal communications inspired by psychiatrist and pioneer of medical hypnosis, Milton H. Erickson. The model was created by linguist John Grinder and Richard Bandler, the co-founders of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).

It is described by the authors as the reverse set of the meta model. Whereas the meta model sought to specify distortion, deletions and generalization in a speaker's language, the Milton model intentionally utilizes those patterns.

It is general, ambiguous and metaphoric. The Milton model and meta model of NLP were the first two models of NLP. Bandler and Grinder met with Erickson on a regular basis, and modeled his approach and his work over many months.

The Milton Model lists the key parts of speech and key patterns that are useful in directing another person's line of thinking by being "artfully vague", and in principle the model states that larger chunks (more general use of language) can lead to more rapport, while smaller chunks, (more specific language) is more limiting and has a greater chance of excluding concepts from a person's experience.

The patterns of the Milton Model can be used to

• pace another person's reality to gain rapport.
• access unconscious resources of another person to gather information or to lead them into an altered state.
• distract the conscious mind.

You will find politicians and the media using these speech patterns a lot.
Unfortunately the names for the speech patterns are a bit overly complicated and silly, therefor I wouldn't advise you to try and learn them by their names, but just be aware of the patterns and perhaps try using them when it seems appropriate. These are taken from the wiki article and a Chris Howard training program.

1) Mindread
Claiming to know thoughts and feelings

I know that you're wondering
I think you would agree

2) Lost Performative
Valued Judgements with performer left out, not saying who says it

It's a good thing to wonder...

3) Cause and effect
If... then

As you go deeper into trance you feel more relaxed

4) Complex Equivalent

The fact that you're sitting there means that you can go into trance

5) Presupposition
Assumption

You are learning many things.
Before you go into trance, I'd like you to sit comfortably in that chair as we talk about your outcomes for today.
When you go into trance, you may discover many resources that you did not realize you had yet.

6) Universal Quantifier
Generalization using all, all the things, every, any, everyone,...

You can always improve your language skills with every conversation you have.

7) Model operator of Possibility

You can learn, one can learn, want to.

8) Model operator of Necessity

Have to, must to, need to,...

9) Nominalisation
Using nouns, process words, that are frozen in time, nouns that are no objects

Relationship, love,...

10) Specified verb
Unlinked verb
And you can, can you not?

causes you to wonder what the verb relates to

11) Tag Question
Question added after a statement to ease resistance:

and you can understand that, right?
you're coming, aren't you?
do listen, will you?
let's have a beer, shall we?
you're developing a deep state of relaxation, aren't you?

12) Lack of referential Index
Phrase that dosn't pick out a specific portion of the listeners experience

one can you know

13) Comparative deletion
comparison is made but not specified as to who or what it was made

more or less the right thing to do (compared to what?)
better to do it that way, would it be best if i come around 2 o'clock

14) Pacing current experience
verifiable experience described in undeniable way
yes-set

you're listening to the sound of my voice, and you're going through these audio series

internally they are going yes, you can include something plausible and because they're on a yes-track they accept the plausible statement

15) Double bind
statement that gives the illusion of choice

Would you prefer finishing this portion of the audio series now or later?
Would you like me to stop by on monday or tuesday?

Triple binds are less obvious

16) Conversational postulate (Indirect Suggestion)
Normally a yes/no response - causes person to take action

Can you close the door?
Can you just take a moment to take a deep breath and relax?

17) Extended quote
delivering message in form of a quote but inducing trance, displaces resistance

the other day I met... who said: 'you can understand this information easily

18) Embedding Questions & Commands
Rather than directly asking: "What are you thinking about?", one might state:
"I'm curious to know what you are thinking.", or
"I'm just wondering what you are thinking."

An embedded command is typically distinguished or marked out using a subtle shift in voice tonality or non-verbal cue.

You may begin to feel a sense of comfort, as you begin to develop these skills in your daily life.

19) Negative Command
Don't think of an elephant - what just happened, you probably thought of an elephant.

Don't go into a deep state of relaxation just yet, just sit down on that chair and get comfortable first.

20) Ambiguity
Homophones:
you're = your
merry = marry = mary

Oronyms:
ice cream = i scream
depend = deep end
the sky = this guy
delight = the light

21) Metaphors in general

Dedroidifying tip for the day

From Warren Ellis » Station Ident: Long Weekend

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How To: Recognize A Liar’s Body Language

From Healthbolt:

Really good liars are everywhere, but they can’t control what they don’t know they’re doing. Here’s some stuff that most people will automatically do when weaving a yarn.

1. If the liar actually believes they are lying, and that it is wrong, then watch for negative self evaluation gestures. These are usually touching of the nose or ears. Yes it sounds silly. Yes, we almost all do it. No, we don’t realize it.
2. Eye contact almost always weakens during the actually telling of the lie. Except if someone’s doing that “look in my eyes and tell me” thing. In which case eye contact is mandatory.
3. Most liars tell lies “palms down”. It’s a subconscious move that is defensive and deceptive. Showing someone your palms makes you feel vulnerable.
4. Most liars are also slouchers. Our backs naturally straighten when we are proud and confident. Liars faking confidence, are rarely either.
5. Humans eyes generally move up and to left if their brain is doing visual or audio construction. They will generally move to the upper right when doing recall. Just remember: Liars go Left, the Righteous go Right. (Remember the Visual Remembered and Visual Constructed Eye Movements from NLP Eye Accessing Cues post, though you have to know beforehand which side is which as it can be different, for instance in left and right handed people but other factors too)

None of these mannerisms on their own is a solid lock. But if you get someone presenting 3 or 4 of them, they’re selling you something you shouldn’t be buying.

Never take your assumptions for absolute truth!

Richard Bandler: 30 years of NLP

"I don't have patients, I have students, so far I haven't found anybody that's mentally ill. Been looking seriously for 35 years I haven't met anybody who's mentally ill, met a lot of people that are very stupid. Especially when I went to Washington DC, place is filled with 'em."

"A lot of people have accused me of being a Guru, I'm just not that fucking sociable. Excuse me. I go off and do stuff by myself and I report back, that's the way I do things. Lots of people wanna follow me but they discover that's really difficult to do."

"How do you deal with habits, you use the truth! That's how you do it. How do you get people to change, you tell them the truth, and then you give them only the alternative of remaining the same and going into unbelievable pain and discomfort. For example: You can keep your bad habit, but I always add 4 or 5 more with it, you wanna keep smoking? That's fine but you're gonna be impotent until you quit, you'd be surprised how many guys change the habit right away. Huhuhuh."

"They brought me into this mental hospital, this guy was into one of the dayrooms. He was walking around, acting pretty weird. But of course they gave him bad drugs to start with. If you want people to be sane don't give them bad drugs, Thorazine is never gonna help anybody to get a firmer handle on reality, it's not gonna teach you to be happy, it's an anti-happy drug. Elleville(?), takes all the highs and all the lows away...
If you want people to be happy, you get the drugs out of their system and give them something to be happy about. The first thing they have to do is to practice. Most of every single day, this is what I found out, all these years and all these clients I found out everybody's practicing everyday to see how bad they can feel."
Richard Bandler

Finally a download of good video and audio quality of Richard Bandler (after a few years of terrible barely incomprehensible uploads!). Thanks Mani!

The Radical Change Group

The Radical Change Group

Check out the Radical Change Group for inspirational podcasts, blogposts, etc!

The Difference Between NLP Dedroidify Therapy and Conventional Psychology/Psychiatry

With gracious permission of one of my clients, J. who I am helping out of a depression and making the shift from pessimist to optimist, to illustrate the difference he experienced between my NLP and conventional therapy:

"I've seen therapists for the last six years, but it's more of a listening session than anything else, therefore, no help at all."

This is what has motivated me to start NLP therapy, I felt I was good at it, and I haven't heard a single positive review of convential psychologists/psychiatrists, who charged a lot and are not helping their clients. Let's see how J. compares his former therapists to how I helped him:

"Whoa! You covered a lot in this session. Again, these are incredibly new therapies for me. Usually I'd go to a doctor and he'd just sit there and look at me, writing illegibly on some yellow legal pad. What great help that was. Did wonders. I'm kidding of course. The kind of lessons and ideas you present give me a kind of new paradigm to work with in my life."

I know psychologists and psychiatrists learn a lot of theory, and then when they start their practice, they basically have to wing it. Most of them make plenty of money, but little change, therapeutically they crash to the ground instead of soaring with that winging.

The difference between conventional talking therapy and Neurolinguistic Programming, is NLP actually modelled psychologists who knew how to do their job and effect change rapidly and effectively, like Virginia Satyr, Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson. On the difference Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP, hilariously said this:

"It's not a therapy group, it's a training session - if you want to go to therapy, well, we can recommend some therapists who are very reliable, why some of their clients have seen them for 20 and 30 years."
Richard Bandler

NLP is a sort of practical training. Often one session is all what it will take to get you confident enough to take care of your own consciousness from then on. I asked J. what the psychologists/psychiatrists he went to see for six years to no avail actually specifically suggested:

"As for my therapy sessions, they suggested once that I get angry. One doctor said, get angry, you should be mad, he told me. I said I wasn't very angry at anything, not very angry person. Then he dropped it. They tried to get me to date girls too, saying I needed someone to keep me "occupied". I wasn't having it."

"Get angry, do some random dating. Time's up, see you next week." Geez. How has this paradigm not collapsed yet? Another example:

"The hypnotherapy might be something of interest to me. I've never had that kind of experience. One of the methods of my former psychiatrists was to put me in a chair and tense up my muscles and then release the tension. He gave me a cassette tape with his voice relying instructions. I guess it was his way of recreating meditation practices. It didn't help very much.
This was a guy who when I was talking about my problems would literally yawn with his mouth closed. Ever seen anyone do that? It's really annoying, especially when your spilling your guts to some wealthy doctor (and he was, he owns like six houses and has five boats and red mercedes benz I see him cruising around town in). My mom went to see him too for a while. She did not like his methods and stopped. I have since stopped as well." J.

So this guy at least used a short yoga exercise and made a poor Hypnosis/Guided Meditation tape, instead of using the expensive time to actually do a personal session that would have been of some use. When you have six houses and five boats, who has the time to care about their clients?

What happens in Neurolinguistic Programming? Well it's not a listening session! The NLP therapist finds out the core challenges, motivates the client to use his/her own creativity in applying solutions, helps the client immediately to rearrange the inner world and experiencing, teaches the client an entire toolbox of techniques customizable to their own needs, and most importantly: applies everything that might help!

As for my own offered change therapy, I also teach anything what is of practical use and interest to the client, for instance the psychological use of meditation, practical psychology and much more. If you teach the client how the mind works, they can influence it themselves more succesfully. So when the therapy is over, the client has learned an entire range of new information and techniques that improve the rest of their lives and help them to realize they are the driver and not the passenger of their consciousness. As an incentive to people who are considering my therapeutic services, some more chronological kind words from J:

"Great first lesson."

"Thus far, it's been great."

"Tremendous insight. Very helpful, I appreciate it greatly."

"I must say I've read books on self-help and other philosophy oriented texts that have helped. However, I find this more helpful. It's probably because you can relate to my problems and put the solution in words I can understand and respect.
Thanks again for your time and your kind, inspiring words."

"Whoa! You covered a lot in this session. Again, these are incredibly new therapies for me. Usually I'd go to a doctor and he'd just sit there and look at me, writing illegibly on some yellow legal pad. What great help that was. Did wonders. I'm kidding of course. The kind of lessons and ideas you present give me a kind of new paradigm to work with in my life."

"I did the exercise five times and realized I am the one in control.
Thank you for your kindness and understanding. Great job thus far!"

"I'm glad I came to you. I"m very appreciative that you agreed to give me free lessons. "

"I'm looking forward to it. (Next Lesson)"

"I'm glad you took me on as a client. Regardless of anything, this has helped me tremendously. If you ever need a reference, or feedback, or anything along those lines, I'm your man. "

"Thanks so much again!"

Thanks to J again for his agreement to post this and the wonderful and fast progress he's making. E-mail me at Dedroidify at Hotmail dot Com for more information. If you have any challenges consciousness wise, I'm your man!

"There is nothing permanent or compulsive in your system
except what you believe to be so."
Moshe Feldenkrais

Eye Patterns (NLP)

Eye Patterns (NLP)

Eye Accessing Cues is fun stuff, part of the huge NLP toolbox. With knowledge of this, you can tell what a person is doing inside their head (including lying), and create more rapport using their sense preferences. I bring out this trick whenever, once I talked to a girl who literally tilted her head up and to her left to VR. "Oh I remember when..." and then totally shifted her head down and to her right to K "and that made me feel sooo..." hehe.

Dedroidify Neurolinguistic Programming Therapy!

Note: I am no longer offering these services

I have studied consciousness, NLP, psychology and hypnosis for years, used the techniques succesfully on myself and others, and now am venturing to help people professionally!

What is NLP? Neurolinguistic Programming is a method applied to psychotherapy and interpersonal communication. A theory of language, communication and an associated therapeutic method, derived from the study or 'modeling' how successful outstanding people in different fields obtain their results. It is a toolbox of very effective ways to change thought patterns.

For instance for psychotherapy, the work of notable Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton Ericson was modelled. NLP holds that people can improve the way they interact with the world by means of certain principles and techniques concerned with their use of language.

The name was coined by psychologist Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder to represent a theoretical connection between neurological processes (neuro), language (linguistic) and behavioral patterns that have been learned through experience (programming). NLP was originally promoted as an extraordinarily effective and rapid form of psychological therapy, capable of addressing the full range of problems which psychologists are likely to encounter, such as phobias, depression, habit disorder, psychosomatic illnesses, learning disorders, etc.

NLP helps to fulfil one's potential, through self-determination learned limitations are overcome towards well-being and healthy functioning. These skills can be learned by anyone to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally.

If you are interested, and want to really De-droid-ify, please e-mail Dedroidify at Hotmail dot com, we can start as soon as you want. You can donate whatever you want for the help. If you have a question just send me an e-mail!

What I am offering:

• Change Therapy
• NLP Session(s)
• Hypnosis Session(s)
• Meditation help & advice for beginners and intermediates.
• Anything else? Just ask.

What I can help you with:

• From Pessimism to Optimism
• Depression
• Re-Associating (Anything you like)
• Anxiety and Stress reduction
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Anger issues, general or specific, for instance: Road Rage
• Motivation
• Addiction
• Phobias and fears
• the 8 Circuit Model
• Meditation
• Anything else? Just ask

Method:

• Change Therapy: Daily follow up through E-mail. After understanding your core challenges, I will inform you on how the mind works specifically and practically for your situation. Several short and easy tasks and advice will be given each day to explore and fine tune your consciousness the way you want it. Teaching you information and techniques that you will be able to use for your own benefit and others for the rest of your life.
• NLP session: We will work specifically on thought patterns or reactionary habits you are willing to change, the set of tools learned to fit your specific requests will be able to be applied by you in the future for a wide range of other needs! This can be done through Instant Messaging or Skype.
• Hypnotherapy session: You will be guided through a process fine tuned for your specific needs, which will effect immediate change. Hypnotherapy requires you to be able to communicate with me through a mic online using Skype.

Communication:

• E-mail (Dedroidify at Hotmail dot com)
• Instant Messaging (MSN, etc)
• Skype (Microphone needed, no webcam necessary)

Credentials:

• Practical experience of succesful NLP and Hypnosis sessions. I helped people with Anxiety Attacks, Anger Issues, ADHD, Migraines, Stress and Pain Reduction, PTSD...
• NLP Master Practitioner Training through Chris Howard, Richard Bandler.
• Jungian Analytic, Integral, Transpersonal and Quantum Psychology.
• Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy: Milton Erickson, Dave Elman, George Estabrooks
• Expert in Leary/Wilson/Gurdjieff/Alli's 8 Circuit Model (Jung/Freud/Berne/Piaget)
• Immersed in NLP, Psychology, Consciousness, Philosophy, Spirituality for years.
• Linguistics: E-prime, Milton Model, Meta Model
• Meditations: Psychological, Vipassana, Mantra, Visualisation, Pranayama Breathing, etc.
• Hale Dwoskin's Sedona method
• Fluently Spoken Languages: English, Dutch, French.

Practically

To illustrate how one of my new clients is experiencing the therapy first hand and how much better he is off with it than talking (listening) therapy, see: The Difference Between NLP Therapy and Conventional Psychology/Psychiatry and NLP Testimonial from a satisfied client.

Relevant Motivational Quotes

"If what you're doing isn't working, do something different."

"Somewhere inside most people are the resources they need to overcome most problems. Therapy locates and then re-locates them."

"Problems have much more to do with process, with the way experience is organised and structured. If you can change the organising process, you can change outcome more easily, more quickly and more enduringly. Therapy means change."

"All Hypnosis is Self-Hypnosis."

Note: I am no longer offering these services

Milton H. Erickson and the Elevator

I don't know what pussy wrote this introduction on wikipedia, cause as a patient I'd take a shock like this any day, but here you go:

Erickson is famous for pioneering indirect techniques, but his shock therapy tends to get less attention, perhaps because it is uncomfortable for us to hear such uncharacteristic stories about an inspirational and gentle healer. Nonetheless, Erickson was prepared to use psychological shocks and ordeals in order to achieve given results:

"When the old gentleman asked if he could be helped for his fear of riding in an elevator, I told him I could probably scare the pants off him in another direction. He told me that nothing could be worse than his fear of an elevator.
The elevators in that particular building were operated by young girls, and I made special arrangements with one in advance. She agreed to cooperate and thought it would be fun. I went with the gentleman to the elevator. He wasn't afraid of walking into an elevator, but when it started to move it became an unbearable experience. So I chose an unbusy time and I had him walk in and out of the elevator, back in and out. Then at a point when we walked in, I told the girl to close the door and said, "Let's go up."
She went up one story and stopped in between floors. The gentleman started to yell, "What's wrong!" I said, "The elevator operator wants to kiss you." Shocked, the gentleman said, "But I'm a married man!" The girl said, "I don't mind that." She walked toward him, and he stepped back and said, "You start the elevator." So she started it. She went up to about the fourth floor and stopped it again between floors. She said, "I just have a craving for a kiss." He said, "You go about your business." He wanted that elevator moving, not standing still. She replied, "Well, let's go down and start all over again," and she began to take the elevator down. He said, "Not down, up!" since he didn't want to go through that all over again.
She started up and then stopped the elevator between floors and said, "Do you promise you'll ride down in my elevator with me when you're through work?" He said, "I'll promise anything if you promise not to kiss me." He went up in the elevator, relieved and without fear - of the elevator - and could ride one from then on."

Chaos Magick Blog

Check out http://chaos-magick.blogspot.com. Step into a Reality Tunnel where Imagination is 'God' and Magick is Creation.

Here is an excerpt from the post NLP can be considered as chaos magick:
"I think it can be. Remember, chaos magick is about finding what works for you and implement it in your magickal practice.

When you look at it from the perspective of chaos magick, anything can be considered as a magickal practice. The law of attraction, or by its popular name the Secret is also a kind of chaos magick in that sense.

If you look at the working mechanisms of sigil magick, you will find many similarities among sigil magick, nlp and the law of attraction. They are there with the intention of manipulating your consciousness because they firmly believe that the reality manifests is only caused by your thoughts, consciously or unconsciously.

Historical, ancient approach to magick says that magick primarily occurs in the body of the magician. This is something to think about."

RAW: Consciousness Change and the 8 Circuit Model of Consciousness.

RAW on Drugs, yoga, Consciousness and more

This fascinating audio series from the audiobook: "RAW Explains Everything (Or old bob exposes his Ignorance)" is about Consciousness Change and the 8 Circuit Model of Consciousness. RAW gives an overview of each of the circuits and their use.

"I've had a lot of experiences which have changed my idea of reality profoundly, the idea of reality as a singular noun doesn't make any sense to me at all anymore." RAW

"So we've got the acceleration factor of information and the decceleration factor of the authoritarian structure which doesn't like the acceleration factor of information and keeps trying to slow it down, and that to me is the basic dialectic of history, information attempting to break free and ruling elites trying to stop the flood of information from unseating them and creating a world they can't manage because they can't understand." Robert Anton Wilson

RadicalChangeGroup: Reality Tunnel podcast

Check out this great podcast about reality tunnels at Radical Change Group: You can stream the podcast here or download it.

Reality tunnel is a term coined by Timothy Leary and popularised by Robert Anton Wilson. The theory states that, with a subconscious set of mental “filters” formed from their beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets this same world differently, hence “Truth is in the eye of the beholder”. (Wikipedia)

• What is reality? - Our own perspectives of realities & reality tunnels
  • Spiritual
  • NLP
  • Perceptions that we hold true - “Perception engineering”
• Reality from the scientific & spiritual perspectives
• Structure of subjective reality
  • NLP: reality strategies
  • Beliefs
  • Values
  • Imprints (response potential)
• Expanding the definition of reality of NLP
  • NLP: reality of the past
  • Beliefs, Values, Imprints: reality in the now
  • Map of realities: reality of the future
    • Linguistic constructs of realities
      • Visualization
      • Future behavior generator (NLP)
    • Holding reality in the body
    • Submodalities (compare: hopes, dreams, desires)
      • Location, location, location
• Epistomology - how do we know what we know, how do we know what is true
  • What our beliefs allow inside
• Summary of perspectives on realities
  • Remembering past (NLP)
  • Beliefs and values
  • How do you return to what is true for you, and yet go through different tunnels of reality
  • The map is not the territory - once you change the map, the territory is transformed
• How do realities evolve (models)
  • Stages of different realities - 8 circuit model, response potentials
  • Work of Dr. Clare Graves, and the derived work on Spiral Dynamics
  • The chakra system
  • Joseph Campbell: The Monomyth, the Hero’s Journey

8 Destructive thinking patterns and how to change them

Check out this possible life changing article by Steven Aitchison.

And pay attention in the media how much these limiting "loser scripts" are actually projected in your mind. If you want a course in how to be any kind of loser, just turn on the tv. Which seems to run on limited scripts and negative embedded suggestions. You can learn a lot by looking deeper and further into what you're being presented, by being a little more aware so you can transmute all that negativity being thrown at you and already within yourself into the positive.

Here are the winner/loser scripts for the 8 Circuit Model.

Let's not stop here: 9 reasons not to date a Tyrannosaurus Rex

Daily Dedroidify: Mind Techniques

Daily Dedroidify: Mind Techniques

A page I started but never finished about Paraliminal & Binaural tech, Hypnosis and NLP. I'll try to fix that soon and will repost it then.

Here's an interesting text about hypnosis. For more on the above topics (but not that much or useful info, will try to add more soon), please click the article link.


How hypnosis got eclipsed in psychology:
"The young Sigmund Freud studied with Liebault and Bernheim at the Nancy School and initially used hypnosis in his practice. In the end, Freud stopped using hypnosis. The reason declared publicly was that a young female patient had jumped up and kissed him. Freud professed to be shocked and concluded that hypnosis was far too volatile to use. The little known history of hypnosis records a different reason why Freud stopped using hypnosis: his cocaine usage had ruined his gums, and his false teeth did not fit well, causing him not to speak well enough to induce trance easily.

In competition with an excellent hypnotist named Breuer, Freud invented 'talking therapy.' Freud said that his talking therapy would not be a therapy for the poor. It would take 100 to 300 hours to effect a cure. His talking therapy became psychoanalysis and this changed the history of European psychology. Freudian psychoanalysis became the rage in psychology and it became inappropriate to use any other techniques. Consequently, hypnosis was eclipsed."
From Tad James' Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide - Producing Deep Trance Phenomena

"All successful communication is hypnosis."
Milton H. Erickson

about NLP: "It's not a therapy group, it's a training session - if you want to go to therapy, well, we can recommend some therapists who are very reliable, why some of their clients have seen them for 20 and 30 years." :p
Richard Bandler

Philip H. Farber: Entity Modeling

Philip H. Farber: Entity Modeling 1 & part 2

Philip H. Farber, author of Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem (Weiser Books 2008) speculates on recent discoveries in neuroscience and their relation to magick and NLP. How and why do we perceive entities in the processes of evocation and invocation? Are gods, goddesses, angels, demons and imaginary friends actually wired into our brains?

Radical Change Group: 8 Circuit Brain Model, part 3 - conversations with Antero Alli

Third & final part of the Radical Change Group conversations with Antero Alli:

This series of conversations is on the topic called the 8 Circuit Brain model. It is something that Timothy Leary first brought into the western consciousness. Later, Robert Anton Wilson in his book Prometheus Rising gave it a more wide spread appeal, and Antero in his book AngelTech provided a more hands-on approach to the same model.

This conversation covers the following topics:

• Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, and Antero Alli - comparing approaches
• Language as a magical act - evoking experiences through the use of language
  • Writing of Robert Anton Wilson
• Interactions of lower and upper circuits
  • 1 & 5: anchor / stabilize your survival needs before you can safely experience bliss, and experience it longer. Get high, but remember to pay rent and stuff the fridge.
  • Each upper circuit contains a specific shock to the system. The shock of circuit 5 is the shock of ecstasy. Circuit 6 - the shock of freedom.
  • 2 & 6: develop emotional connections before opening up circuit six. Vision without compassion is cruelty.
  • 3 & 7: the rational mind has a need to come up with new words and symbols to convey the experience of the shock of unity of the 7th circuit.

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Radical Change Group: The 8 Circuit Brain Model, part 2 - conversations with Antero Alli

The 2nd part of this conversation covers the following topics:

* Circuit 3: symbolic-conceptual intelligence
o Signs of getting stuck in circuit 3: "parroting", quoting other sources, but not having it come from you. Stuck at absorbtion, without proper integration.
o The aim of 3rd circuit is communication - real communication, making you think.
o Being logical is not the same as thinking
* Circuit 4: ability to get along with people
o People are unpredictable, for the most part. Ability to live with this unpredictability
o Confidence of C-4 is whether you are likable
o The vehicle for C-4: the ego personality
o Annoyance as an indicator of unfulfilled needs / points of growth
* Circuit 5: somatic intelligence; somatic opening to present time, living in the present, opening to all 5 senses.
o Like circuit 1, only with awareness. Getting high.
o Various practices can do it (meditation, etc.). If you live long enough, it tends to open up eventually, like any other circuit.
o Charisma: transmission of integrated circuit 5. Certain amount of performance on stage produces charisma.
* Circuit 6:
o The central nervous system becomes self-aware.
o The energy body / double / aura
o Chakras
* Circuit 7: Mytho-poetic, genetic intelligence
o This is where things become genuinely weird
o Existing conditions that are shared among the immediate family members
* Circuit 8: non-local
o Out of body experiences, near-death experiences
o Finding non-locality in your experience, beyond the confines of time and space
o What Antero calls "Void"
o Connections between circuits 1-5, 2-6, 3-7, 4-8

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Radical Change Group & Antero Alli: 8 Circuit Brain Model

Radical Change Group: The 8 Circuit Brain Model, Part 1 - Conversations with Antero Alli

Great first part of a podcast trilogy, will be posting the other parts tomorrow and the day after to hopefully tune in the most listeners. Featuring a great intro to the 8 Circuit model, the first 2 circuits and much more. Antero Alli, the author of Angel Tech, is such a great resource for the consciousness community, and so is Radical Change Group, check out their huge free archive of podcasts on Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Language, Business, Leadership, Mythology, and Spirituality. Subscribe to their podcasts here!

From the site: Today we are starting an exciting new series of conversations with an author, a ritualist, a film maker, a dramatist, and astrologer, and a theater director Antero Alli. These series of conversations are near and dear both to our hearts, and to the work that Antero does.

Antero Alli was born in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. He is an author of such books as AngelTech, Towards an Archeology of the Soul, Astrologic, the Vertical Oracle, and the Akashic Record Player. His deep background in theatre and paratheatre has resulted in numerous original performance works since 1977, and he’s currently the artistic director of ParaTheatrical ReSearch - a Berkeley based group of trained physical performers exploring asocial ritual dynamics. Since 1991 Antero has been writing, directing and producing his own films which include 6 feature functions, 3 paratheatre video documents, and about 20 short works.

This series of conversations is on the topic called the 8 Circuit Brain model. It is something that Timothy Leary first brought into the western consciousness, and later Robert Anton Wilson in his book Prometheus Rising gave it a more wide spread appeal. It was further developed by Antero in his book “Angel Tech”.

This conversation covers the following topics:

• History and introduction to the 8-circuit brain model
• Absorb, Integrate, Transmit: Intelligence Increase
• Embracing humility, flaws & paradox on the human journey
• Circuit 1: Bio-Survival intelligence
• Circuit 2: Emotional-Territorial intelligence
• Direct experience
• Meeting the needs of the second circuit

Richard Bandler Quotes

Richard Bandler is best known as the co-inventor (with John Grinder) of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). He also developed follow-up systems known as Design Human Engineering (DHE) and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning (NHR).

"We take the very best of what people do, synthesise it down, make it learnable and share it with each other - and that is what the real future of what NLP will be and its gonna stay that way!"

"The evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having."

"Do you want to know a good way to fall in love? Just associate with all your pleasant experiences with someone, and disassociate from all the unpleasant ones."

"Brains aren't designed to get results; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you don't, then someone else will."

"Disappointment requires adequate planning."

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing."

"The reason people have problems is that they have too much time to think."

"The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now."

"People always tell me with absolute certainty that they don't trust themselves."

"If you say to yourself 'It's difficult to get up in the morning', 'It's hard to cease smoking', then you are already using hypnotic suggestions on yourself..."

"You know what ? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen... The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason..."

"Remember, it's your own body, your own brain. You're not a victim of the universe, you are the universe."

"If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it."

"My mantra for silencing the inner dialogue is: 'shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up,...'"

"I made the door in my house left-handed, because I'm left handed. When people come in, they push the door the wrong way, and hit themselves on the door. And you know what ? People keep harder and harder to do it ! When something doesn't work, try the same thing harder!"

"You are born with only two fears: fear of falling and fear of loud noise. All the rest is learned. And it's a lot of work!"