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As I network and work to build a grass roots community that can use aspects of NLP with autism, I find it very powerful to work with metaphors to get the creative juices flowing in myself and in the people I meet.

Through metaphors or stories, it becomes easier to recruit and enlist the imaginative faculties and resources of all kinds of people. It puts us in an interested and learning state. Working with metaphors it also helps us to stand apart from the subject of autism, and view it objectively, not as a noun, but as a set of processes within a system.

I have a friends and connections on a mission to “raise consciousness”, as though this would be the solution to the world’s problems. Other friends of mine never give consciousness a thought, or simply just dismiss the topic of consciousness as something new age people talk about a lot.

In my mastermind group, we have taken on the task of reading Flow, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. This 19-year-old book was a best seller in its day, but the research is still relevant today. I was enthused to read about it as it is referred to by trainer after trainer in NLP, and also by other authors I follow.

Today I want to share another story of conversational NLP that took place in just a few minutes, and almost no words. For me it was a lovely experience of how simple change can be sometimes…

A year ago I was up in Winter Park Colorado, taking the Master Practitioner Training with NLP Comprehensive. One afternoon I was meeting with three friends from the training who all had a similar interest in writing and story-telling. We were brainstorming ways that we could support each other.

Over the last couple of months, I have devoured and am currently digesting 3 fantastic books which have given me a whole new gear in life. Let me tell you about the first: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance. This is not a new book, but a very good one to pick up.

A toast to briefly celebrate the new piece of paper on my wall!

Are you someone that can benefit from learning the language patterns of a modern master teacher? Eckhart Tolle is a master teacher now for millions, yet he does not know how to use email. Eckhart employs many language patterns worth modeling by the serious NLP student wishing to influence people spiritually.

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten” – John Grinder

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As a study of human subjective experience, and as a study of human excellence, NLP challenges us to first experience the world differently, and then watch the external world change to fit our new cognitive sorting, filters and strategies. Or to boil it down to a very few words, NLP challenges us to experience things differently. See, hear, feel, perceive, sense, calculate, sequence, and learn differently, and the world will change. That is a guarantee.

He sat stewing in the passenger seat as we headed to the airport, a deep frown on his face. I met Nick only the day before, and today he was on his way home after more than two months in an intensive wilderness therapy treatment center in the Rocky Mountains.

Nick shook his head, scowling. “He’s such an ass. He’s always like this. It’s not gonna work back at home. I’m just gonna get thrown out of the house. He’s giving me no choice. So much for college!”

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