What part of your life would you want to improve? Perhaps…

• Love?
• Emotional development?
• Bad memories?
• Phobias?
• Habit?

Is there any skill that you wish you could have?

• Communication?
• Study skills?
• Making a productive habit?
• Goal setting?

Here’s the good news! I’m designing some workshops and courses to help you gain these skills – fundamentally using neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and accelerated learning techniques. If you’ve heard of Tony Robbins or Adam Khoo, you would be familiar with this technology of new achievements.

By working with your subconscious mind, you can alter your life’s directions! How? By instilling the best possible habit you need to succeed. Also, we’ll be breaking down those beliefs that’s been holding you back from your true potential.

If you have a need, just share it with my by commenting on this post or emailing me directly at workshops@aldrictinker.com today.

Thank you for your feedback!

Everything has a structure. From liquid, to diamonds and even paragraphs to ideas. Its structure holds it intact and gives it meaning.

Did you know that your experience also has a structure?

Your thoughts and memories have a pattern to them. When you change the pattern, or structure, your experience will automatically change. Because of that, you can neutralise unpleasant memories and enrich those that serve you.

If what you see above Malaysia? Or it the map of Malaysia? If you own the map or print out the visual, do you hold in your hands Malaysia? Of merely the map of Malaysia?

With the map above, can you go to Betong? Does it show you where Bekenu is?

Similarly, our mental maps of the world is not the world. Yet, daily we respond to our maps, rather than directly to the world.

How do we create this map?

Through how we experience the world and interpret that experience. The good news is your map can easily be updated, just as easily as you create them.

Plus, wouldn’t it be easier to change your map of the world than to change the world?

NLP, or neurolinguistic programming, focuses on how your thoughts, actions and feelings work together right now to produce your experience. On the other hand, traditional clinical psychologists set out to describe difficulties, then categorising them and search for historical causes.

If you compare the two, clinical psychology starts with the question of “what’s wrong?” NLP, however, accepts the mind being alright, only the way it’s being used – consciously or otherwise – may be impairing.

By now, it’s probably clear that NLP is based on principles that are distinct from traditional psychology. The foundations of NLP rests in what are known collectively as Presuppositions of NLP.

All the 10 Presuppositions which you will be able to discover as the weeks progress can be summarised into one: people work perfectly.

What we do – our thoughts and actions – combined with what we feel produce specific results. Repeat the pattern all over again, you will get the same results.

Take, for example, you waking up in the morning. You want to wake up an hour earlier from before. However, you did not set the alarm nor did you change your sleeping pattern. Can you predict what the results of that will be?

You’ll wake up at the same time as before. The process works perfectly.

So, if you want to change the results, you need to change your thoughts, actions and feelings.

After you’ve understood specifically how you create and maintain your inner thoughts and feelings, changing them with something more useful becomes easy and effortless!

And the NLP Presuppositions are the foundations to achieve exactly that!

This post is inspired by a long-time friend who shared a problem. I decided to share it because it affects many people who want to change.

I’m not sure [what I want to change]. Because sometimes I aim… But in the end nothing happens… Then there’s the fear of meeting people…

This is the reply I got to from an inquiry regarding my Personal Development NLP Session. In whatever light you want to see this in, it’s a common struggle many people face. It is internal conflicts like this which hampers many from being the person they can be.

There are many ways people use to address this dilemma. While others successfully use positive and healthy means, there are people who succumb. The later resort to substances and alcohol, reckless activities that endanger themselves and people around them, or even go mad.

Through NLP Sessions, what NLP Practitioners will do is ask questions – some which you may feel weird. Good NLP Practitioners will use meta questioning models to really discover the deep rooted problem.

Let me take a possible weight loss client. When she comes to me for a weight loss session, I’ll ask her on how she feels about the goal, how would it be like if she achieved it, what happens if she doesn’t.

After covering the surface, using the meta questioning method, I’ll dive deeper. Asking more and more about emotions and memories, guiding my client to explore her subconscious.

From there, we will work on the remedy.

If this is not done, the chances of relapse are high. I reckon this would be the limitations of popular motivation: it does not address the root.

We have finally reached the third and last Law of Suggestion: the Law of Dominant Effect.

What is the Law of Dominant Effect? As the name implies, the strongest emotion triumphs over other emotions and reason.

Law in Action: The best example for you to consider is the way your subconscious reacts to something you are phobic of. It can be cockroaches, ladybirds, snake, frogs, the sea, heights and so on. Even though you may be protected by a bullet proof glass enclosure, the moment your sight lands on that object you are phobic of, your phobia reaction kicks in. In cases of phobia, your physiology will change. You may begin to quiver. Your glands produce liquid profusely. Some may even wail or scream – inside that clearly safe protection.

In this example, your reason and your knowledge that you’re safe all succumb to the most dominant emotion: fear. In real life, this isn’t confined to just fear. You can include euphoria, anger, sadness, content satisfied and so on.

Mind-Body Relationship: Going back to our primal origins. This mechanism within our minds are predetermined. What varies are the way it decides to protect you – whether you want it or not.

Continuing our exploration, we get to know the second Law of Suggestion: the Law of Reversed Effect.

What is the Law of Reversed Effect? More and more you try to do something governed by your subconscious, the more you find it difficult to achieve. Put it as this: your conscious and subconscious minds govern different aspects of your life. Where one is capable of doing, the other may not.

Law in Action. Physiologically speaking, your subconscious is your autonomic nervous system – the system that governs bodily functions independent of your conscious control. You can control your movements, whether to swallow or not as well as running or walking. But you cannot directly control your blood pressure, heart beat, glucose level or event sweating mechanism!

More and more you try it, the harder it gets.

Mind-Body Relationship: It is not impossible to gain control over these bodily functions. But it’s not as direct as you can imagine. Your brain is equipped with sophisticated organs which would facilitate your survival. Based on the information surrounding you as relayed by your senses, it reacts. Whether the threat or reward is real, it’s immaterial. Your brain directs your body to react to its reality.

But when you attempt to consciously assert control, it – I speculate – raises your brain’s alarm. Through that, you will begin to feel agitated, depressed or annoyed. It’s when your mood isn’t too good for whatever reason. Your subconscious isjust protecting you.

Let’s begin our three part series on the Thee Laws of Hypnosis with the most popular one: the Law of Concentrated Attention.

What is the Law of Concentrated Attention? Through the writings of Rhonda Byrne (The Secret) and Michael Frosier (Law of Attraction), this law is commonly known as the ‘Law of Attraction’.

The basis of the law is you will always find – or achieve – whatever you set your mind onto. Whatever you set your mind onto, I repeat again.

In the study of [clinical] hypnosis, your subconscious reacts to whatever you are thinking, your beliefs and values towards a particular issue. You should, by now, notice that I never mention a selection process.

To put it bluntly, the Law of Concentrated Attention stipulates that your subconscious mind reacts to everything you think of, positive and negative, to achieve or avoid a goal or aim.

Law in Action: Have you noticed, how many red MyVIs are on the road after you’ve signed the contract to buy a red MyVI? Or perhaps you begin to notice the number of people wearing a purple headscarf after you left the house and are wearing it? In my case, while working on a telecommunication company’s project pitch with a client, somehow we noticed how the Klang Valley is highly bombarded by telco adverts!

Mind-Body Relationship: While normal ‘right thinking members of society’ may feel that this is a rip off, slowly the medical and health care community are beginning to accept the validity of such relationship. Studies have been and are on going in Europe and the United States on the relationship of conscious and subconscious mind.

If you’re studying clinical hypnosis, you will be taught that this is something primal to the human mind. Back in the days of living in caves, our ancestors needed to be alert to dangers all around them. They become alert of any predators when they leave the cave to hunt or move. Every sound of breaking branches draws their attention.

When you make something so relevant and important to your mind, your body’s autonomic nervous system kicks in and does its job.

Since 2004, Web 2.0 Conferences have been held annually. It’s the buzzword among social media/Internet marketing enthusiasts. Basically what Web 2.0 symbolises is “change”. Internet alone isn’t a static creation. Even more so for the users.

Copywriters 2.0 (sing. Copywriter 2.0) are copywriters who have adapted to the 2.0 ecology. Usually they are Generation Xs and Generation Ys copywriters who are impatient yet determined to achieve. They harness the power of technology to get the work done cost effectively.

What is meant by “cost effectively”? Your communication:

• Saves time;
• Saves money;
• Saves energy.

As a copywriter 2.0, here are the 5 techniques I used with my clients:

1. E-mail communication;
2. Text messaging/short messaging system;
3. Phone calls
4. Instant messaging; and
5. Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP).

If you need to send a bundle of document, send it via e-mail! A Copywriter 2.0 will access it, print it and refer to it.

Through e-mail, your copywriter 2.0 already have a reference he can access easily.

For a course of over 7 months, I managed to work with a Client half way across the country! So, as a person looking for a copywriter, find a Copywriter 2.0!

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ALDRIC TINKER, founder of Aldric Tinker & CreateChange, is a Certified Neurolinguistic Programmer, trained by William Horton, Psy. D., of the National Federation of Neurolinguistic Psychology. Aldric conducts Life and Executive Coaching sessions in addition to speaking engagements.

Born in a Seminar Room…

During the introduction of me as a Certified NLP Practitioner and Professional Freelance Copywriter by my good friend Vincent Cheng, Founder of JeVince and Malaysian Business Network, during his Sales 2.0 Marketing 2.0 Workshop prompted a participant to speak on the relationship of NLP and Hypnosis how the two are not related. He expressed how his trainer, also mine, is bad at it and too academic.

For the purpose of this entry, I’ll focus on the relationship between neurolinguistic programming and hypnosis. What’s the nexus?

Beginnings of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)

Richard Bandler, then Psychology Student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, joined followers of John Grinder, then associate professor of linguistics at the same varsity, reputedly the youngest in the States at the time.

The two became friends and began fusing their interests and skills and began studying the works of Virginia Satir (mother of Family Therapy) and Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt Therapy). With the materials at hand, they studied the two for the reasons of their successes. Through a friend, the co-founders of neurolinguistic programming stumbled upon the work of Milton Erickson, MD, Grandfather of Hypnosis.

They were so engrossed with this general practitioner’s works on hypnosis. They incorporated Ericksonian work into NLP.

NLP From the Eyes of Clinical Hypnosis

In Clinical Hypnosis, there are fundamentally three approaches to hypnosis:

• Autocratic: The autocratic approach is telling the Patients (LCCH/BSCH term for ‘Client’) on what to do. Close your eyes. Think of a time when you were…
• Permissive: Patients are ‘invited’ to close their eyes. Whenever you are ready, close your eyes…
• Non-Traditional: Non-traditional methods depart from the two. Non-traditional uses natural occurring hypnotic states to create the change. Briefly, you and I enter hypnotic trances everyday: when we’re day dreaming, concentrated in work, engrossed in reading books, etc.

Where does Clinical Hypnosis put NLP? You can almost guess it – non-traditional.

Ericksonian Influence is “Apostolic Succession” in NLP: Past, Present and Future

Erickson’s work incorporated by the Co-Founders of NLP into this new field of personal change lays the hands on NLP. There are NLP trainers and practitioners who write out that Bandler and Grinder went to meet Erickson, who endorsed their work.

Since its conception in the 1970s, NLP expands and grow because of those who carry on the torch.

Depending on the pre- or post-NLP training of your practitioner, you will see traces of NLP amidst what they bring onto the table.

Just as my trainer, William Horton, Psy. D., is trained in Hypnosis (Dr. Horton is a Certified Hypnotherapist, National Guild of Hypnosis/NGH & International Association of Counsellors and Trainers/IACT), I am doing the same. As a student of the International Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis conducted by the London College of Clinical Hypnosis Malaysia, I’m bringing back hypnosis into NLP as I practice it.

In addition to conducting NLP therapies and coaching, I use my NLP-hypnosis in my copywriting and speechwriting.

At the end of the day, NLP in inseparable from Hypnosis. No matter how far down the line you may be from John Grinder and Richard Brandler, or you got your line through NLP Gurus Tony Robbins, Tad James, Steve Andreas and more, NLP will trace its roots back to hypnosis.