The books arrived! Everybody who booked a ticket for

TRANCE-formation
Hypnosis as an Application of NLP

Amsterdam, May 2009

through RaVisie will shortly receive their copy. Once you started reading … Anyway, we will be posting them tomorrow, where ever you are in the world. Luckily we have some helping hands packing and sending them.  Tickets for this TRANCE-forming seminar are still available. Read about it. We’re counting the days (16) before we’ll have 5 days of hypnosis together. See you in Amsterdam!

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

• Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Mark Twain
• I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. Winston Churchill
• A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
• Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
• Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
• Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
• Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan (1986)
• I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers
• In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. Voltaire (1764)
• Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you. Pericles (430 B.C)
• No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. Mark Twain (1866)
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill
• What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. Edward Langley, Artist (1928 – 1995)
• A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jefferson

The thoughts and beliefs that we want to re-arouse are those that were often predominant in childhood…
They are spiritual, mental, emotional and biological beliefs that are innately present in the birth of each creature. Children believe not only that there will be a tomorrow, and many tomorrows, but they also believe that each tomorrow will be rewarding and filled with discovery. They feel themselves couched in an overall feeling of security and safety, even in the face of an unpleasant environment or situation. They feel drawn to other people and to other creatures, and left alone they trust their contacts with others. They have an inbred sense of self-satisfaction and self appreciation, and they instinctively feel that it is natural and good for them to explore and develop their capabilities. They expect relationships to be rewarding and continuing, and expect each event will have the best possible results. They enjoy communication, the pursuit of knowledge, and they are filled with curiosity. All of those attitudes provide the strength and mental health that promotes their physical growth and development. However simple those ideas may sound to the adult, still they carry within them the needed power and impetus that fill all of life’s parts. Later, conflicting beliefs often smother such earlier attitudes, so that by the time children have grown into adults they actually hold almost an opposite set of hypotheses. These take for granted that any stressful situation will worsen, that communication with others is dangerous, that self-fulfillment brings about the envy and vengeance of others, and that as individuals they live in an unsafe society, set down in the middle of a natural world that is itself savage, cruel, and caring only for its own survival at any cost.
Seth

We do talk about it in NLP but did you ever read the original paper:  The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information.

Written by by George A. Miller

originally published in The Psychological Review, 1956, vol. 63, pp. 81-97

Go read it.

So what do you think about the Logical Levels or have you thought about it? “So called Logical Levels and systemic NLP” is an excellent article written by Dr Wyatt Woodsmall.

On the website Grenswetenschap there’s a nice Dutch article about Obama and his so called use of Milton Language patterns and anchors. You can download a 60-pages English document describing it (which doesn’t mean I agree or disagree with the political views expressed in the document). Very interesting for the experienced NLP-er/NLP*.

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Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.
Virginia Satir