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.

While visiting the National Federation of Neurolinguistic Psychology website earlier today, you’d be surprised to find that I discovered new and cool techniques recommended by the NFNLP! So, in addition to the basic techniques which I have been taught during my Practitioner certification course, you can be confident to know that I’m also updated with the newer ones!

• The Wishing Well
• You Are Always More
• Improving Test Performance for Students
• Peak Performance Generator
• Total Re-Frame
• Go Straight To Your Goal
• Athletic Swish
• Back to the Future: The Time Machine
• Safe Place
• Perceptual Contrast Technique
• Manifesting Your Desires
• The Magic Mirror Soul Recovery Method
• "Just" a New Technique
• The Healing Stream Faith Method
• Experience Generator
• Happy Disneyland Bandwagon Ride
• Binoculars Technique
• Auto-Strengthen Anchoring
• Mending a Broken Heart
• The Alien’s Time Tunnel
• Manifesting Your Desires
• Unpleasant Circular Anchor for Stopping Smoking
• Switch Color State
• Access Your Ideal Future Self for Advice
• Swish Technique With a Rubber Band
• Reframing
• The Magic Balloon
• Foundation Building Technique
• Discovering the ‘Bigger You’
• The Boss Squeeze
• A Technique for Relief in Headaches & Menstrual Cramps
• Spiraling Into Control
• The Special Place and Special Friend
• The Power Clap
• Power of the Tree
• Really Stupid
• The Swim Spot Technique
• Micromanaging Boss
• Scattering the Problem
• Using the Eye Movement Exercise for Hypnotic Trance
• The Broken Gaze
• The The SuperKid Technique
• The Resource Manager
• Smoke-Free Slingshot
• Perspective to the Journey
• "Making-Up" Technique
• The First Piece is the Same as the Last
• Accessing Higher Wisdom
• Winding Road Technique
• My 6 Step Transformational Forgiveness Technique
• "The Fifty" Technique & "That’s Me!"
• Road Rage Disabler Technique
• A Forgiving Goodbye
• Confirming Total Acceptance of Change
• Heaven and Hell Sliding Anchors Technique
• The Rainbow Bridge
• Building Rapport Through Sharing
• Emotional Blockages
• Alice’s Gift
• The Confident You
• Using Confidence as a Baking Ingredient
• Tension Release
• The Teddy Bear
• Power Performance Technique

When you’re dealing with the human mind, it’s an insult to think that what you know from your past is sufficient. Any good NLP Practitioner would want to be ahead of the game! At the end of the day, NLP Practitioners help facilitate the necessary mental changes for you, the client, to achieve the desired results.

Whether you want to stop smoking, be more confident, change the way you react to a memory that’s holding you back or even loose weight, you need to be assured that you NLP Practitioner has the latest tools. One thing you need to remember is that your brain is a dynamic organ. And a misdirection can and will result in undesired outcomes.

So like any other psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and therapists, NLP Practitioners should always update their arsenal.

As a NLP Practitioner, I sincerely wish you the best for the coming year 2010. If you’re keen for change, call me. Let’s create that sustainable change as you achieve your desired outcome easily and effortlessly in a natural manner.