We often talk in our training about the concept of changing ones intention, changes the person’s attention and then we focus on certain aspects in our field of view. Our attention fixing is both useful (focussed), but also limiting because we miss very obvious changes in the world around us too. Using [...]

What Hallucination Reveals about Our Minds
Added by Sonya Yeh Spencer, ITANLP Trainer, Educator & Coach
Did you know that about 10 percent of the hearing impaired people get musical hallucinations and about 10 percent of the visually impaired people get visual hallucinations? How do we do it? In this facinating video, you will learn a little [...]

In NLP we often focus on how to assist individuals and groups to perform at their best. One thing that NLP doesn’t usually mention is that to perform well, you need to be in a state of readiness, which includes every aspect of your wellbeing. One of the most [...]

Added by Mark Spencer, ITANLP Trainer, Educator and Coach
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal or human acts and also when the human or animal observes the same action performed by another.
From an NLP perspective, we would say that the functions of Mirroring were discovered 20 years earlier by Grinder [...]

Video
Do you think you can Model Nature? A different perspective
Milton Erickson often asked his clients to observe nature to draw inspiration and resolve life’s challenges. When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you’ll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Can we Model Nature to improve [...]

Many of the skills that Derren Brown is using are pure genius. Not everything here is meant to be done at home – that is not our intention for showing these. These videos are brilliant examples in some cases of deep rapport, language skills and anchoring – showing just how things can happen. [...]

A recent study shows that when faced with a decision, it’s best to take some time–relax and cool off–so logical thinking can guide us to the best choice. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
sa_p_podcast_100417 or from Scientific American’s Website (Note that this broadcast uses stereo features and for part of the [...]

A few contrastive articles on how we percieve ‘others’ unconsciously in those initial moments of encountering a person.

Researchers are developing a new understanding of how we judge people. By Marina Krakovsky, Scientific American
Excerpt from ScientificAmerican.com
We’ve all heard that people favor their own kind and discriminate against out-groups—but that’s a simplistic view of prejudice, says Amy [...]

From literature to architecture, academics and entrepreneurs are using neuroscience to explain everything from why we like a complex narrative thread to why round tables are more social. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
sa_p_podcast_100403 or from Scientific American’s website
…all sorts of industries are jumping to use any new brain information [...]

Podcast: Using Light to control the Brain…..this approach—called optogenetics—could return controlled movement to mice suffering from Parkinson’s. Beyond controlling neural firing in the brain, scientists have recently found that by inserting another gene cells will glow green when they fire. That means they can watch the brain in detailed action, a step towards decoding [...]

Scientists find that when the area of the brain responsible for understanding the intent of others is disrupted, moral judgment is also affected. Christie Nicholson reports (Scientific American)
Play the Podcast here:
sa_p_podcast_100329 or from Scientific American’s website
The researchers disrupted the activity in this brain area using what’s called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). And they asked [...]

We can’t touch time, or smell it. Yet it is utterly inescapable. But, research shows, time is – at least partly – something we control in our heads.
Although we rely on other ques when they are available, have you ever woken from a good sleep because you have told yourself you must get up at [...]

…Another fundamental skill that one can learn from NLP Practitioner training is how to re-program our own responses or neural-pathways to create change. The simplest way that you can do is remember a time that you might have lost your temper and reacted very strongly, only to regret what you said or did later. This is a bit like …

Change your thinking, change your feelings
Integrating Professor Albert Ellis’s Rational Emotive Therapy & Philosophy (REBT)
We often live by many rules in our life. These rules express themselves in the use of language we use which consists of ‘musts’, ‘shoulds’ and ‘oughts’. Professor Albert Ellis calls them ‘mustabatories’. He also coined the phrase [...]

Dean Ornish is a clinical professor at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute. He’s a leading expert on fighting illness — particularly heart disease with dietary and lifestyle changes.
Dean Ornish talks in this video about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body’s natural desire to heal itself.

Dean Ornish [...]