NLP Poetic art

[Graeme]

Hi everyone

I’m a fairly new member of this forum my .My recent adventures in NLP have really enriched my life and I’ve only been doing this for a week!!! They have also given me an interesting idea but first I’ll give some background:

I am a practicing artist having some success locally (I’ve exhibited in a public gallery and my work is now held in a private one.)

What I do is combine visual elements with poetry so that both methods of communication create a richer message then they could separately. Here is the main gallery of my artwork:



These give you an idea of what I do and how I do it...

Now my understanding of NLP (at it’s most basic) is that it is a system of delivering positive affirmations to the subconscious mind. A lot of the time this is done through vocals and soft music (like the Paul Mc Kenna CDs I am using).

What I would like to do (with more learning about NLP) is to use these techniques with my artwork. I would like to factor the visualizations and affirmations into my artwork and poetry, to create NLP artwork.

Now I have created my first experimental NLP image Here and Now (http://www.eyefetch.com/image.aspx?ID=885468), (The link leads to a more detailed explanination)

http://www.eyefetch.com/p/sa/885468-3cb7790d-2c92-4773-bbeb-7edf550ac212.jpg

it combines positive suggestions which are both visual: (“Watch as they take flight”) and kinesthetic (“Hidden hands create the dreams”).

The lyrics contain empowering calls to action such as “You’re the one who guide the hands” and “Here and Now”.

The image itself is a simple concept of light coming from hands to represent creativity; it also contains male and female figures so all viewers can relate to the artwork.

I believe this would give a different method of delivery allowing people to use NLP methods when they enter a room with the images without going into closed eye process. It would be a more passive way of using NLP and would (hopefully) act as an alternative and complementary system to other NLp methods.

I would like to hear the opinions of the experienced people on this forum and maybe critiques on the concept and whether my style of working would be effective.

I would love also to work with an experienced practitioner on this, within Ireland preferably but I have no problem working online.

Thanks for looking

Comments Welcome

Graeme

[Terry]

Graeme good concept, but not new, which by no means is detrimental to the concept. However, for ideas, open your bible and note the ornimental decoration of the first letter of an important word. The "G" in God, the "J"in Jesus, the "H" in Holy spirit. Now the monks who so lovingly decorated and guilded those letters did so without knowledge of the concept of subconcious programming, but it worked that way non the less in that you don't need knowledge of the mind to help or harm your own mind or the mind of another.
One negative I want to point out in hopes of helping your concept, and that is the need you felt to rewrite the poem outside the picture for those who had a problem with reading it when impossed on various colours. In my opinion, which of course is only that, the effect on the subconcious mind is negated by that fact, and lettering should be on a clear background so that the subconcious mind retains that part of your intent.
Example, I might write something like:-

God is kind and God is might,
He smiles at me when I do it right!
God is meek and God is mild,
He is my father and I his child.

NOW, the verse is simple promtion of the concept of God, but instead of imposing colour on top of all the words, so that they are partially concealed, you take the "G" and guild it within a picture that in each case shows the intent of the line, ie, "God is this....Mighty, Meek, Mild, Father, or Child. Of course, since you only have four Gs to guild you need to make choices as to what is important to you to represent, but I hope you get the drift, and recognise the weakness of what you present in-so-far as leaving a permanent picture in my subconcious after looking at your presentation..

Or, I might do a large picture, and then in the middle, within a frame of laurel leaves or such, but with a clear background, my written message in very small print. Such will be acknowledged by the subconcious much better in my opinion.
I would suggest you try both methods and see who is affected best by either of them.... Again, good concept, but needs cleaning up a little before you become the poet lauriate of Irland....:D Oh yes, you don;t need to be a painter to do this experiment, it can be done via photography of course, but the poem should be reasonable, not something dashed off in an instant.

[Graeme]

I got a bit bogged down in the idea of creating a Nlp piece here are two better examples of my work:

http://www.eyefetch.com/p/em/752169-bca9d63f-3a48-43c3-b183-6bb2cd19e15e.jpg


http://img1.eyefetch.com/p/5c/442053-b3de5b0c-b991-458d-9a63-e590950f0d72.jpg

It's a case of applying the theroy to better image concepts

Any other feedback welcome

[Poodle]

am a practicing artist having some success locally (I’ve exhibited in a public gallery and my work is now held in a private one.) That's great.

What I do is combine visual elements with poetry so that both methods of communication create a richer message then they could separately. Here is the main gallery of my artwork: I have heard certain people say: "That painting speaks to me" but would it not be better if that painting made people feel soooo much better.

These give you an idea of what I do and how I do it...

Now my understanding of NLP (at it’s most basic) is that it is a system of delivering positive affirmations to the subconscious mind. A lot of the time this is done through vocals and soft music (like the Paul Mc Kenna CDs I am using). Not really. You need an in-person training. McKenna does a mismash of NLP/hypnosis/EFT. He is actually a famous stage hypnotist that had done some trainings with Dr. Richard Bandler. To my knowledge the NLP part has always been taught by Bandler/La Valle in London or previous to that with Breen. NLP has absolutely positively nothing to do with "positive affirmations". NLP changes neurology very quickly. I wonder if the covers on Richard's books are "NLP artwork".

What I would like to do (with more learning about NLP) is to use these techniques with my artwork. I would like to factor the visualizations and affirmations into my artwork and poetry, to create NLP artwork. Reads as a very worthy project. It is true that NLP will enhance all aspects of your life so tell me please why are you just concentrating on artwork. Instead of using McKenna CD's why not use the Bandler ones from his program Meditation, Magick and Change. I believe he allowed the unconscious mind to create however it wanted to - music, art, prose, etc. Hoping you find your way to a good training soon. You just may find that you greatly enjoy it.

Be well,
Pood :)