Since learning about NLP, how has it affected your life on a day to day basis? Has it improved it considerably? Or is your life pretty much the same as it was before you discovered it?

It's the same in many ways but it's like wearing rose tinted glasses. Everything is that bit rosier.

Learning NLP has came along with learning many other self-help methods/techniques/philosophies etc. It's all been one big journey for me and I've never stuck to studying just one thing. The first insight I 'really' got into the world of 'personal development' was NLP from a Tony Robbins standpoint, and it hooked me in to the whole 'movement' so since then my life has taken off in leaps and bounds.

I have laughed more since I started down the NLP road than I did the rest of my life beforehand.

I am at peace with who and what I am and moving forward things are only going to continue to get better.

I've said since I finished the prac course that if there was only one thing I took away from that course (and trust me there was a lot) it was a sense of being far more comfortable being me. But that alone was worth every single penny.

There are a lot of other changes but I'll give other people a chance to answer the question.

She

I'd be lying in bed crippled and in pain, so for me, it's a no-brainer...

Aside from the obvious though, I have such a better experience with my life now that I understand how certain things work and how to look at things certain ways, I couldn't imagine going back. I'm not even sure that I could. It would be like trying to unlearn how to ride a bicycle and then trying to ride the bicycle again as though it were the first time. On an unconscious level, all your knowledge about how to write a bicycle just keeps coming back!

I think that this is a really good question! I look forward to reading other answers!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

It has given me the means of changing my 'state' at will - most of the time.

It has taught me to set powerful, personal anchors.

It has enabled me to reframe various bad bits, so they just do not matter any more.

It has enabled me to meet amazing people - some of which are NLP Connections members.

It has opened doorways.....
I cannot wait to see what is around the next corner.

I'm going to cheat and give an extract from an article I wrote on our website titled 'What is NLP?'. And why not, I took a long time thinking over what I would write to explain the personal impact on me...

I’ve always been deeply curious about how people work and that led me down the path of doing a Masters degree in business and reading a lot about psychology and human development. Even after years of study I felt there was so much missing and that I really didn’t yet have the tools for truly understanding what makes people tick. I then happened across NLP and that unlocked a treasure chest of discovery for me. Not only did it match my own learning style of ‘learning-through-doing’ but taught me so much about how and why people are the way they are – including some major lessons about myself which have literally changed my life.

In my professional capacity as trainer and coach, NLP is about curiosity and choice: developing a healthy non-judgemental curiosity for what might actually be going on in order to help expand the range of behavioural choices for yourself and others. The impact can be extraordinary and as a life-long learner the tools and concepts of NLP provide endless learning and wonder. It is about ‘what works’ as someone once described it, and there are always new things to learn that feed my curiosity.

Specifically what it has meant for me is that I have a much clearer focus, greater happiness and fulfilment, the best relationships of my life and I’m probably healthier than I have ever been before. I’m much more able to achieve and sustain a sense of wonder about life and to be energised about what the future holds.

Cheers

Paul

Why do apostrophes get messed up on posts? Looks fine in preview then gets messed up on posting. Would love to know...

I almost never feel bad ever, compared with nearly always feeling bad 10 years ago.

I have been happy 99.9% of days in the last 9 years.

I have 2 girlfriends who don't realise that they are way out of my league, one of whom is more powerful than I thought human beings could be. She is just one of several people who seem determined to teach me whatever I need to be able to do.

On the rare (yearly?) occasion I get ill, I can get my immune system to sort it out within hours.

I haven't really aged in 9 years.

I have a career that I enjoy and successfully treat 95+% of my clients.

I am 10x smarter, 100x more confident and my life is at least 1000x more interesting.

I suspect I'm one of the luckiest people on the planet.

I suspect a lot of the luckiest people on the planet are also on here!!

Morning everyone :-)

On a professional level NLP has given me some fabulous additions to my toolkit for helping teenagers.

On a personal level, NLP has given me the ability to overcome a 13year dental phobia. I have since been to the dentist regularly, something I never ever thought I'd be able to do! It has also given me the ability to get off the anti-depressants that I had been taking for over 2 years.

Be Happy

Penny

Top of the mornin' to you, too, Penny!

NLP has given me so, so many things and abilities ... I hardly know where to start.

It's given me the ability to more fully consider someone else's position and, perhaps more importantly, not to react to that once I *do* understand it! Lol!

It's given me the ability to check for understanding -- and agreement -- and to know that those are two different things!

It's given me the ability to calibrate each person as an individual so it doesn't matter so much which culture they are from (although, I will still say that knowing a bit about cultural anthropology certainly helps!).

It's given me the ability to go inside my own mind and to problem solve without using specific images (colors, though!) or words and makes the solutions available to me whenever I need to use them.

It's given me the ability to look at certain things (like math problems!) as interesting puzzles so that I can maintain a solution-seeking focus and not get all bound up emotionally like I used to.

Oh, I could go on and on, but I won't bore you All!

Take care, Venus.