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Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Volume I (The Study of the Structure of Subjective Experience) Hardcover – June 1, 1980

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There comes a time when it is both useful, and appropriate, for the purpose of continuing to expand our understanding of the universe we live in, for entirely new fields of study to be created. Separating new from old, exceptions from rules, and useful from previously unquestionable. So learning and experiences from entirely divergent fields have the opportunity to combine knowledge and experience into configurations that allow further growth, understanding, and impact upon ourselves as a species. It is in this way that neuro-linguistic programming came into being. We wish at this point to separate our NLP from the many fields from which it draws information, from the many fields for which it has application. And in this way have greater clarity and freedom to delineate NLP's own methodologies and basic purpose.

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284 pages
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English
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Meta Pubns
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June 1, 1980
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6.25 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches
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0916990079
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978-0916990077
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Meta Pubns; Limited 1st edition (June 1, 1980)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0916990079
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0916990077
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.5 inches

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Robert Dilts has a global reputation as a leading developer, author, coach, trainer and consultant in the field of Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP). Robert worked closely with NLP co-founders John Grinder and Richard Bandler at the time of its creation and also studied personally with Milton H. Erickson, M.D., and Gregory Bateson. Robert pioneered the applications of NLP to education, creativity, health, leadership, belief systems and the development of what has become known as “Third Generation NLP”.

Robert has lectured extensively on the applications of NLP to a variety of issues, making presentations and keynote addresses for The United Nations, The World Health Organization, Harvard University, The Milton H. Erickson Foundation Evolution of Psychotherapy Congress and The National Tumor Institute of Italy. In 1997 and 1998, Robert supervised the design of Tools for Living, the behavior management portion of the program currently used by Weight Watcher’s International. In 2005, Robert created and implemented programs on communication and relational skills and patient empowerment tools for the National Health Group of Singapore.

Robert has authored more than twenty books on a variety of topics relating to NLP and coaching. He is the principal author of Neuro-Linguistic Programming Vol. I, which serves as the standard reference text for the field, and has authored or co-authored numerous other books on NLP including Changing Belief Systems with NLP, Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Well Being, Tools of the Spirit, From Coach to Awakener and NLP II: The Next Generation.

Robert’s recent book The Hero’s Journey: A Voyage of Self Discovery (with Stephen Gilligan) is about how to how to embark on the path of learning and transformation that will reconnect you with your deepest calling, transform limiting beliefs and habits, heal emotional wounds and physical symptoms, deepen intimacy, and improve self-image.

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Worth the Read

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I received my Book in perfect “Like New” condition and I am a Very happy Book worm! 😊 I definitely recommend this book to anyone looking to start NLP.

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As an NLP student this book was a rare find, recommended by my NLP Coach who suggested to buy this book on sight, grab it if you ever see it! I followed this advice, reviewing all the knowledge I have learned with more confidence to share the life giving concepts with others.

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This book is great and recommend it

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Book arrived in condition as advertised. This book is great and recommend it. I also like this merchant. Have used them before.

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The doctor

Classic book, but not for lazy NLP noobs

Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2010

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I'm a huge NLP fan and i use it to make people do what you want them to do every day with it.
anyways, any NLP trainer will tell you that NLP constantly evolves, but they don't tell you that "constantly evolving" means that stuff is omitted so that Noobs don't get scared and stop paying for more training.

I received my NLP training and thought that something was amiss so i used the power of the internet to find every old NLP book i could to further my understanding and application abilities, this was one of those books.
The thing you'll find with old nlp books is that they spend volumes talking about techniques that current trainers spend maybe 10-30 minutes on. current trainers do this to overload you and get your money.

anyways, this book is awesome. it takes its time and has transcripts demonstrating parts of a huge methodology which goes like this Figure out their Model of reality (test), elicit a Strategy with TOTE (test), Utilize their behavior and VAKOG's against them (test), design a smooth Installation that they will most likely accept (test), then install your creation into their mind (final test). If they don't take your installation you use REFRAMING to force them to accept installation (final final test)....pure genius.

Most new trainers will tell you that there are a lot of steps that can be omitted to make this process simpler like Find Single problem, Elicit strategy, Test, Reframe to Install new idea, which does work, but in reality only saves you like 5 minutes where you can go through the old process and totally figure someone out and have the necessary ammo to totally bend their mind to your whim...or help them. :P

anyways, don't fall for scammer nlp trainer's who promise a "fast track" to persuasion. buy this book instead. its a solid read and it focuses on basic basic basic persuasion skills that you can use in any conversation to become a persuasion god.

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Filipe

A classic book never published in Brazil

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2013

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It's a pity, that some classic books like this one, never were published in portuguese. I am happy, because now I have this one. Thanks!

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absolutely crucial read

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Want to understand humans through how they accept information? Read this book, you will learn a lot and be absolutely glad that you did.

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Great book as always by these authors

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Joseph Augustine

Phenomenal book - for classic NLPers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 27, 2017

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Phenomenal book - for classic NLPers

A book that is up there with Magic1 and Patterns1 as a primer text of early NLP source material. Make no bones about it “it is not an easy book” but appears to have been written to take stock of the seminal developments (from 1975 - 1980) to “create a new vocabulary...with a rigour and syntax that are themselves an attempt at programming...your perceptions and ways of thinking about human behaviour will be dramatically altered.”

A strategy is “a string of representations in which each sensory representation is anchored to the one preceding it” and if a definition of human evolution is “the utilisation of environmental variables into decision variables by sorting and punctuating the way these variables fit into a context”, NLP strategic programming could be defined as coding decision variables as possibilities (outcomes/goals) to overcome environmental limitations.

By pacing or packaging strategies to the client a coded string of representations are installed. However, first, the present strategy needs to be elicited to determine its usefulness which involves the TOTE model (Trigger/Operate/Test—Exit) of looping back at a decision point (Test) represented through an image, sound or feeling. This checkpoint is either one of congruence - an exit point in the TOTE - or incongruence - an operate point leading to feed back in the loop. An example is given which uses a kinaesthetic checkpoint:

“You know, I really feel (ki) that I can see (vi) what you are saying (ae) better when I don’t look (ve) at you as I listen (ae)”, since using the visual external channel would interfere with the testing process. The strategy in its most elegant form would be written as follows: T:trigger/test —- O:auditory external -— O:visual internal -— T:kino internal (loop back) -— E:exit

Non-physiological behavioural modifiers are introduced beneath the arrows between each representation in the strategy labelled as either a congruent arrow of continuation (C), a polarity arrow of reversal of content (P), or a meta arrow of dissociation (M.) Another possible distinction that is noted in the kinaesthetic experience is between tactile (somatosensory) and visceral (emotional/proprioceptive) positions. Current research on introception might also be something to add to the list for future developers,

The secret sauce of what makes this Study of the Structure of The Subjective Experience stick is the continual tying together and drilling of key NLP fundamental elements of strategies, anchors, rep systems and to a lesser degree perceptual positions. This gives the learner lots of opportunities to build a solid diamond of core patterning to reinforce the Meta, Milton and Metaphor Models. For example “the meta model decodes and breaks down verbalisation into primary sensory experiences from which it was derived.”

John Grinder it turns out has since distanced himself completely from the usefulness of strategies as explicated in its early form. He argues that due to the nature of synesthesia present in all representations, punctuating each into well defined linear sequences of TOTEs is illusory - it is the unconscious assimilation of the state that includes the strategy and not the other way round. “The image and the feeling arrive simultaneously and it is an ‘artifact’ that we experience them as occurring in sequence... Although both representations are present, the limitations of the 7 + or – 2 chunks of conscious attention ensure that we will entertain only one of them at the same point in time. ” (Carroll, NLP Academy).

Essentially, Grinder explains that the version of strategy widely taught and adopted is too reductionist in its approach with an over-reliance on left brain thinking (information gathering) so that a spelling out of coded formulae becomes a crude approximation of the internal state of the client. It cannot recreate or model true genius. However, Grinder might possibly have understated the role of intuitive skills a talented programmer holds in using their charismatic gift of transmission to install a state along with the strategy acting as the guide. Unfortunately, such an explanation would also mean successful installations could only be guaranteed after an adequate expertise level ihas been obtained, thus raising the bar quite considerably for those who could deliver them.

The meta outcome (purpose) of this book is that “every individual has the resources to make appropriate changes and choices to adapt to any situation, if these resources can be accessed and ordered in the appropriate sequences.” As a statement of phenomenological fact I believe it is still not widely known that internally processed strategies of representations changes behaviour, which possibly distinguishes NLP from other forms of therapy (and coaching), i.e.in using the sensory representational systems as the language of the mind.

Regardless of the wheres and wherefores of strategies as a subject of merit in itself the information contained here would make an excellent adjunct to master practitioner training. It has been said that strategies have the potential to turbo-charge a coaching session, and a lot of experienced NLPers would be lost without resort to a calculus in getting to grips with a client’s behaviours for learning, motivation, creativity, belief (convincer), decision making and remembering!

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Vito

The first book ever written with the tittle NLP and ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2017

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The first book ever written with the tittle NLP and till today it still remains a classic! A must read for anyone who is interested in the topic.

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