During the Certified NLP Practitioner course, we were asked to administer the various techniques of NLP in our manual. After the second or third day, I started to pick up Dr. William Horton’s own opening and adapted my own.

You find below the extract of the email, i.e. my findings:-

Whenever you are ready, just close your eyes. Take a deep breath and relax. Let yourself to let go and relax. Every time you take a breath you become more relax. Every time you take a breath, the more relax you become.

Listen to your heart beat. Hear it, feel it beating inside you. With each beat you become more and more relax. Another beat, the more you sink into relaxation.

Don’t try to resist it – the more you resist, the more relax you become. The more you feel rebellious, the more you let go.

That’s it. Take a deep breath and relax.

<Start the 1st step here, e.g. Godiva Chocolate Pattern, New Behaviour>.

My personal remarks following this is as the following:-

If you chose to gesture, gesture according to the breathing pattern of the client/patient. I snap my fingers to act as an anchor or emphasis. You may use other means which you, again, feel is right or looks ok.

You do this naturally: feel the words come out of your mouth with ease. When you are calm and relax, so will your client be. And the more calmer you are, the easier it is for you to go through the pattern. To quote Dr. Horton’s Mind Control – Mastering the Art of Constructive Influence, tell people what you want them to do! (p. 56, Mind Control).

If you want to use ‘don’t', use it to go towards your direction. Instead of "Don’t panic!" Or "Don’t worry", say "Don’t think about you being relax because the more you do, the more you let go".. Or something along that lines.

Be simple. Use simple primary school words. Just in case the client/patient is not familiar with that particular word you are using. Bombastic is the last thing you want to think of.

Just as I have shared with my peers, I share this with you.

Cheers!

Aldric Tinker, Certified NLP Practitioner (NFNLP, USA)

It’s been a marvellous 5 days throughout the Certified Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner’s course. Dr. Will Horton is one great Master Trainer, considering that he’s got over 50k experience. Learning from this FBI-trained US Army Veteran just moves senses, creates ideas and combines old ones to become a greater solution. All five senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory) practically came alive. You get to hear things more vividly, see things more relevantly and feel the way you should!

Besides one great facilitator and trainer, my fellow participants were also a bunch of inspiring and awesome people! We had the brightest of minds, the most sweetest of souls, the most enterprising of personalities! Everyone are special in their own way, so not meeting them after 5 days straight is slightly awkward. But hey! Wait! Being NLP practitioners, we practically established excellent rapport and communication with each other! We have the skills then as we have it today. It can be duplicated, no matter where, when and whom.

So, it’s a new day. My first day as a Certified NLP Practitioner. Let’s see what magical works I can do today. After all, the journey has just begun!

Thank you, all, for making this experience a great one!

With warm sincerity,

Aldric Tinker, Certified NLP Practitioner (NFNLP, USA)

During lunch on Saturday, Dr. William Horton, Niza, Phillip and myself sat at the table in the Best Western Premier Seri Pacific Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Amidst the aromatic restaurant coming from the buffet, we were talking about rates and professionalism continuing a remark Dr. Horton made.

When he was approached by a client who wanted to improve a particular skill, he paused for a moment. He looked at this person and tried asking one question he never asked before: if you get this result, what’s it worth to you?

Relating back to my experience, I have held back much of my potential ‘for the sake of gaining experience’. While my copywriting idol, Robert Bly, wrote in his book Secrets of a Freelance Writer – How to earn $100,000 or more that pricing is important. To charge peanuts, you get exactly peanuts. If you charge peanuts, your clients will see and feel that you are too insignificant to be bothered with. Here you will start to hear the little Critic in your head bashing you up.

My NLP Master Trainer’s insight reinforced a new belief I embraced after reading T. Harv Edgar’s Secrets of a Millionaire: I choose to be paid for my results.

So, what’s my stance on fees? How much do I charge for writing a script or a speech, a brochure or a flyer, a blog or other copywriting jobs, you have to know how much is it to you.

Before you answer that, think about it: what do you want by hiring me? What does that do for you? What does hiring me do for you? How would you feel and see when you do? What will you hear when you allowed one NLP Practitioner, trained by an FBI-trained U.S. Army veteran renowned Master Trainer of NLP, take up the job? Don’t think of how you personally can benefit from this experience – it is company or organisation sponsored!

So, what is your project worth to you?

Hey there! Can I offer you a Krispe Kreme donut?

It’s been a while since I last updated this blog. Since then, besides the Men’s Health Refine & Define Challenge 2009 modules, one thing that I look forward to is the Certified NLP Practitioner Course I am attending from June 24 to 28, 2009.

Some time after reading Adam Khoo’s Master Your Mind, Design Your Destiny, the idea of NLP somehow got lodged in between the hemispheres of my brain. I was curious of this little course which changed this obscured boy’s life by leaps and bounds. Sure, his success isn’t attributed just to NLP, but it was a starting point.

One day I was browsing the papers, New Straits Times to be exact, I cam across this advert. A U.S. NLP Master Trainer is coming over to Malaysia later this month to teach the basics of NLP. What caught my attention was the certification. Just imagine: I’m going through the same road the Millionaire-at-24 trod before. Plus upon completion, I would enjoy a two-year membership with the Florida-based National Federation of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NFNLP).

Wait! Back up! What on earth is NLP?!

To answer that, I bought myself a little book – you know how I am with books!

After reading this book, which I bought at Times Pavilion for RM68.00, I come to conclude that NLP – or Neuro Linguistic Programming – is about speaking to your brain in a language it can understand so it could achieve a desired outcome. Embrace it or distance from it, NLP certification can be regarded as one of those craze a number of us are after. Used properly, it can improve lives. Check out that Adam Khoo guy again.

Let me give you some examples of the brochure:

• Remove the emotional charge from unpleasant memories;
• Be able to build rapport with anyone.
• Control almost any situation.
• Improving and using states of mind.
• Defuse tense situations.

Besides paying for the 5-day intensive Certified NLP Practitioner programme, inclusive of lunch and tea breaks, you will receive a VCD, two books, the invoice, timeline of the programmes, programme materials and the two-year NFNLP membership.

This course will be conducted by William D. Horton, Psy. D., CADC, – a licensed psychologist, an alcohol and drug counsellor, a Master Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming, a Certified Hypnotherapist and trained through the Red Cross programme for Critical Incident Stress Debriefing. The good counsellor have also been trained by US’s FBI at the FBI Academy, Quantico, VA, and recently taught at an FBI Lead Crisis Negotiation Course. This veteran of the Army and Naval Reserve is also considered a leading expert in subconscious communications.

The five-day intensive module is organised at Seri Pacific Hotel Kuala Lumpur by NLP Academy, Power Events, Success Shop and Power Press & Design Sdn. Bhd.

Not bad, eh, for a 22-year old freelance copywriter?

Hmm… Maybe I’m able to get this Oris watch after all – without having to stake everything on a competition. After all, the idea was to be refined and defined!