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NLP and Peak Performance

by Frances Coombes

Motivation and peal performance come from knowing what you want to achieve in life.

NLP and Pregnancy

by Jeremy Lazarus

This article illustrates how NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and related techniques can be used to relieve common problems experienced during pregnancy and, in particular, child...

NLP and the Future of Healing

by Gina Pickersgill

This article explains that NLP offers ways of working with clients based on understanding the basic structure of the brain, and a focus on what is important to the client. The au...

NLP and Time Management - Getting Time on Your Side

by Frances Coombes

You don’t use time, it uses you. Whether you race to complete tasks as quickly as possible or you sit at a desk and do nothing at all – time still passes at the same rate and you c...

NLP for Optimum Health

by Jane Revell

How can NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) help us prevent illness and stay as well and healthy as we possibly can? This article gives a brief description, before suggesting ways i...

NLP in Education - A Magnificent Opportunity

by Don A. Blackerby, Ph.D.

Many times when I used to teach mathematics, I would notice that some student would be staring out the window daydreaming. I would wonder what was going on in their mind that they ...

NLP Sports Techniques - Getting in the Zone

by Frances Coombes

NLP Sports practitioners use some of the most powerful belief change techniques in the world. It is necessary because if a championship pistol shooter makes a bad shot he needs to ...

NLP Teaching Social Interaction skills - (Theory of Mind)

by Frances Coombes

There are serious consequences for a society in which an increasing number of children grow up being able to talk but not to communicate with people.

NLP Tools for dealing with Addictions

by Frances Coombes

Not all addictions are drug-fuelled but all blend seamlessly into problems related to impulse control. Whether it’s chocolate, cigarettes, alcohol, sex, gambling or cocaine, they ...

NLP Training In The NHS Workplace

by Frances Coombes

Four Main Areas for Using NLP in the Workplace. 1. Self-management Skills in Relation to Work. 2. Building better Communication Skills. 3. Modelling Successful Outcomes. 4. Listenin...

NLP-based Strategies for Maintaining and Improving Eyesight Naturally

by Katrina Patterson

This article explains how, in a world in which more and more people are wearing glasses or contact lenses, we can re-educate our vision naturally and achieve lasting improvements u...

NLP: Cult or Cure? Neither, Actually

by Nancy Blake

This authoritative feature is a response to the definition of NLP on the online Wikipedia, which describes neurolinguistic programming as a cult.

Notice How People Make Decisions

by Frances Coombes

The author, a Performance Enhancement Trainer, opines that one of the most useful skills you can develop is that of noticing how people make their decisions. She states that if you ...

On Togetherness and Being Separate, in the Week of the Royal Wedding

by Nancy Blake

Counselling couples in difficulty, I never discuss who said what to who, or whose fault anything is (too often, one or both members of the pair believes that things can only be reso...

Practical NLP: Negotiating Being Fat

by Nancy Blake

The author gives an account of her personal history of having been told by her doctor to lose ten pounds, when she was fourteen, and weighed eight stone nine pounds. She did this s...

Practical NLP: Separation and Separateness

by Nancy Blake

The author offers some keys to healthier relationships, particularly with our partners.   She also explains the difference between separation and separateness, and how men and wo...

Practical Uses of NLP, and What Is It About Wheelchairs?

by Nancy Blake

Just a quick refresher about metaprogrammes, first!

Procrastination: An NLP Strategy for ‘Doing it Now!’

by Frances Coombes

When you find simple strategies for doing things that work well, do you collect and incorporate them into your everyday life or simply forget them? Learn how you can collect other ...

Recognizing Thinking Styles: George Soros 'Big Pic'

by Frances Coombes

Recognizing someone’s successful thinking style allows you to take that person’s habitual thinking patterns and make them your own. If you are stuck, or need bigger or better solut...

Reframing AlphaGo - When Failure is not an Option!

by Frances Coombes

The belief that ‘failure is not an option’ is often used to spur people on to greater achievement; but it can also destroy them. Perfectionist traits can stir dysfunctional unhealth...