Jonathan Altfeld's Beginner's Guide to NLP
To start off on the right foot, welcome to our website! Glad you could join me on this exciting journey! You see, I really enjoy introducing people to Neuro-Linguistic Programming. I enjoy it so much, I give free talks at Border's Bookstores all over the state of Florida, amongst other venues. I like speaking at bookstores, partly because they usually give me a free cup of coffee, partly because I get to meet a lot of interesting people who want to explore new ideas and improve their communication skills, and also because when I'm done speaking, I watch a lot of really terrific people go traipsing off to the bookshelves to grab whatever NLP books remain on the shelves. I enjoy knowing they're going to take those books home and learn something new about how their minds work, and how to improve themselves!
Now, how do we go about talking about what NLP can offer you? Because it doesn't strike me as profoundly useful, in the early stages of talking about it, to get lost in the jargon! I think we ought to find out what you can get from learning it! So in that spirit, I've prepared a little quiz for you to take. Keep the answers to yourself. Go ahead! Take the quiz! It won't bite!
Quickie Quiz|
1) Would you enjoy knowing how to lead any conversation absolutely anywhere? 2) Would you like to be able to walk up to absolutely anyone, & consistently cause people to feel a deep sense of rapport with you, and find you somehow irresistably magnetic, before you actually say anything? 3) Would you enjoy knowing that limiting beliefs can be changed visually without actually talking through them? Just by learning simple mental mechanisms, you can enhance your own capabilities powerfully! 4) How would you like to have substantially more control over your emotional states, such that anytime you found yourself in a less than wonderful state, you’d have tools at your disposal to quickly & easily change your attitude & perspective? |
5) Would you enjoy being able to set up & close sales in less time, with more automatic referrals generated, with a higher close ratio, all while guaranteeing no buyer's remorse, & a greater sense of accomplishment & personal reward? 6) Would you enjoy having powerful skills to be able to rapidly learn specifically how experts do what they do best? Would it be nice to be able to take that information & consciously & unconsciously reproduce that expert behavior in your own daily life so as to reproduce their results? 7) Would it be useful to be able to change your automatic behavior just by expanding your belief set? 8) Would you like to know how to very effectively motivate yourself and others using the most advanced persuasion techniques available anywhere? |
If you answered just 1 of the above questions with a YES answer, then you stand to gain powerfully by studying NLP techniques! Alright, I admit it, I asked rhetorical questions designed to get only YES answers! But all jokes aside, NLP technology promises & delivers all of the above! And a lot of NLP techniques are really easy to learn, so you'll be seeing many benefits very early into the process of discovering just how much you'll want to learn!
Neuro-Linguistic Programming has certainly been defined in many different ways over the last 25 years since Richard Bandler and John Grinder first began co-developing NLP. And on the information index page here you'll find links to other trainers' sites where you can see some of these other definitions. But for most people, NLP is a technology for improving communication. Its also a way of learning how other people store their own experience in their minds... so that we can more accurately and effectively find out how other people think! So NLP has been called the study of the structure of subjectivity, or, the study of the structure of excellence.
By studying how experts store their own expertise, using NLP techniques, we gain unique insights into how to more effectively install that experience inside ourselves! So this is why over the last 25 years, NLP has covered a LOT of territory, gathering the best experts knowledge from hundreds of fields! From my perspective, it's about doing better things, more effectively, faster, with more fun & enjoyment, greater personal congruence, with less stress and less uncertainty.
Sure! About 1/3 of the books on the Self-Help shelves at your local bookstore were probably written by NLP-trained Practitioners or Master Practitioners. Many of those authors found the keys to their success in NLP technology, and then they packaged up what they learned into their own methodologies and teachings. Have you ever heard of Anthony Robbins, or seen his infomercials? Take a look in the early sections of his book "Awaken the Giant Within" and look for his quick mention of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. The techniques he learned from NLP which he's folded into a number of his trainings, he now calls Neuro-Associative Conditioning. That's just one example out of many. If you want to learn the skills and tools that brought those people to the successful levels they've reached, then feel free to explore this site, read more about NLP, and don't be surprised when you'll find yourself laughing at how ANY limiting beliefs you may have had in your past will have already begun to fade away...
I look forward to hearing from you as you begin the process of reaching for your goals, now!
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