Carol Harris - 20 MINUTES TO MASTER ... NLP

20 Minutes to Master Buddhism

20 Minutes to Master Feng Shui

20 Minutes to Master Meditation

20 Minutes to Master Past Life Therapy

20 Minutes to Master Pilates

20 Minutes to Master Stress Management

20 Minutes to Master Wicca

20 Minutes to Master Yoga

20 Minutes to Master Your Psychic Potential

Carol Harris is a business mentor, trainer and author. She helps people set up home-based businesses and also works with companies and individuals to help them develop personal and business skills. Carol is a Sociology graduate, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow (and past Council member) of the Chartered Institute of Management Consultants. She is a Master Practitioner of NLP and was, for four years, Chair of the UK Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and was also editor of the Association’s quarterly magazine Rapport .

Carol’s other books include Networking for Success , Consult Yourself , Think Yourself Slim , How to Produce Successful Magazines and Newsletters , A Guide to Traditional Pig Keeping , The Trainer’s Cookbook , The Earning Curve and a children’s book on ecology, Adventures of the Chickalloon . She has also produced the Success in Mind series of audios on personal effectiveness, which include the titles Super Self , Handling Social Situations , Active Job Seeking , Creating a Good Impression and Super Slimming . She was publisher and editor of Effective Consulting magazine.

This book is split into two parts. The first part, NLP Made Easy , is an original, previously published work from an expert in the field. It’s a comprehensive and insightful introduction to the subject, explaining the ideas and techniques that will allow you to develop a true understanding and practise it every day.

The second part is 20 Minutes to Master NLP , which you’ll find here . This is a short and lucid look at the ideas and techniques covered in the first section, which will only take you 20 minutes to read. It’s a powerful and invaluable resource that you’ll return to again and again.

If you want to know how NLP can help you – in both the short term and the long term – look no further. The answers are here.

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Title Page IN THE SAME SERIES 20 Minutes to Master Buddhism 20 Minutes to Master Feng Shui 20 Minutes to Master Meditation 20 Minutes to Master Past Life Therapy 20 Minutes to Master Pilates 20 Minutes to Master Stress Management 20 Minutes to Master Wicca 20 Minutes to Master Yoga 20 Minutes to Master Your Psychic Potential

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About the Author ABOUT THE AUTHOR Carol Harris is a business mentor, trainer and author. She helps people set up home-based businesses and also works with companies and individuals to help them develop personal and business skills. Carol is a Sociology graduate, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Fellow (and past Council member) of the Chartered Institute of Management Consultants. She is a Master Practitioner of NLP and was, for four years, Chair of the UK Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and was also editor of the Association’s quarterly magazine Rapport . Carol’s other books include Networking for Success , Consult Yourself , Think Yourself Slim , How to Produce Successful Magazines and Newsletters , A Guide to Traditional Pig Keeping , The Trainer’s Cookbook , The Earning Curve and a children’s book on ecology, Adventures of the Chickalloon . She has also produced the Success in Mind series of audios on personal effectiveness, which include the titles Super Self , Handling Social Situations , Active Job Seeking , Creating a Good Impression and Super Slimming . She was publisher and editor of Effective Consulting magazine.

About this Book ABOUT THIS BOOK This book is split into two parts. The first part, NLP Made Easy , is an original, previously published work from an expert in the field. It’s a comprehensive and insightful introduction to the subject, explaining the ideas and techniques that will allow you to develop a true understanding and practise it every day. The second part is 20 Minutes to Master NLP , which you’ll find here . This is a short and lucid look at the ideas and techniques covered in the first section, which will only take you 20 minutes to read. It’s a powerful and invaluable resource that you’ll return to again and again. If you want to know how NLP can help you – in both the short term and the long term – look no further. The answers are here.

PRINCIPLES OF NLP

Acknowledgements ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book is dedicated to David Gordon. On the final Practitioner course run by UKTC, David suggested that participants take on the role of ‘experiential explorers’, part of our brief being to think of what could possibly prevent us from continuing our interest and activity in NLP. My response was to say that what could put me off would be if I were unable to find new ways in which to explore the subject. I think it is fair to say that I have found new things to do with NLP ever since. I would also like to thank the following people, whose assistance in producing this book has been invaluable: Paul Harris, for much of the research and support, Martin Roberts, for being a mine of information on NLP’s chequered history, and Katrina Patterson, for her ongoing encouragement and assistance. My thanks also go to my two NLP ‘role models’: Roy Johnson, who ran the very first NLP course I ever attended, and Douglas Pride, whose unique blend of humour, concern and entertainment is a real inspiration. Note: Throughout this book I have credited sources wherever possible; if anyone has been left out this was entirely unintentional and any additional sources received will be noted for future editions.

Preface PREFACE My first encounter with NLP was reading the book which many other people had also acquired as their primer – Frogs into Princes . This book was both fascinating and confusing; it left many questions unanswered, as it was as a transcript of training rather than a stand-alone publication. However, for me, it was the impetus to further study and led to my professional life having a major focus on NLP. If this book adds to the store of available knowledge on the subject of NLP, I hope it does so utilizing two concepts which have been important to me personally: structure and simplicity. I have aimed to make the book as straightforward as is possible; I have also aimed to use a structure which is easy to follow and where specific items can be pursued without having to wade through irrelevancies and jargon. I would like to suggest a key in reading this book – and that is curiosity. Curiosity has long been a cornerstone of NLP. Attitudes of curiosity and exploration have led to the major developments which established NLP as a field in its own right and it is those same attitudes which continue to inform its progress. I would encourage you to approach each section of the book with these attitudes. Once you have read the book, it would be excellent if you could take the attitudes of curiosity and exploration forward into your life, extending your own personal search for knowledge, experience and creativity.

Finding your Way around this Book

SECTION I

1 What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming?

2 The History of NLP