Anorak NLP needs a makeover

[kalliste]

Yes, i did it. Not content with simply exploring NLP, I have joined the anorak ranks that my practitioner trainer warned me about. Yes, I'm even one of those people who when talking excitedly about communication to someone manages to somehow manouver myself into being told "go on then, hypnotise ME!"

After learning the first lesson which is not to even mention the word "hypnosis" as this seems to be the trigger that activates the ticking time bomb of incongruence and limiting beliefs OVBIOUSLY caused by grannies death or that time the subject pood themselves in an RE lesson when they were 11, and you find yourself wishing you were still talking about the oversteer in your new car , why insurance companies are robbing bastards and who's round it is next...!

So, now I find myself just trying to hang out with some friends and suddenly defending the fact that I was just asking about somebody's new job and NOT in actual fact putting the whole room under some form of mind-bending trance state which in fact shows how rubbish I am at NLP as nothing is happening and nobody is running round like a chicken.

Now, don't get me wrong, I love watching people and seeing interactions, and mentally ticking off limiting beliefs, complex equivalents and incongruencies in people who are desperately trying to look interested in each others conversation. But sometimes you just wish you could switch it off, if only for the sake of my poor enduring family who can't even have a normal conversation with me these days without me asking "so what would happen if i went out with the boys at the weekend instead of going to your mothers'....?" and "well, i don't know if there's ever been a time you went to TK MAXX on your own, and you found something really nice to wear and I don't know if you remember how you felt when you first put it on and...... blah blah blah"....

So Yes, it's finally happened (as Freddie Mercury would sing) i'm an Anorak. I think i've entered the ranks, so i'm now looking for the NLP equivalent of Trinny and that other really annoying one. Would anyone like to suggest some new hynotic method that may help someone in this position who has recently joined the anorak-pack change other peoples personal history so they forget they ever mentioned (in a moment of foolishness) that they knew NLP so I might actually start getting invited to parties again? ........

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Kalliste

[Terry (existing)]

You poor soul, I know just how you feel, though my own experiece was just the oposite. When the local populace found out I was a hypnotist, they couldn't wait to invite us to parties, were my wife and I were separated, as a crowd of ladies got me into a corner to quizz me on what I could do and couldn't do. The men loved it, as it got them loose from their wives to talk sports et al, but I sure fixed them. One time they decided to find out for themselves what I could do, and I took advantage of that to inform them that I could hypnotize with a glance, and persuade any woman to fall into bed with me at the earlies opportunity, or even make such an opportunity while her husband was away. This resulted in a long silence, and though it didn't stop the problem immediately, it did ensure that the men attended these little clutches to hear more, and after I had hypnotised a few of them, including some who didn't want to be hypnotised, if they were to be believed, I finally got to spend party time with my wife, and enjoy the party without paying for it with my skills....Funny, I didn't lose any friends, and did get recommendations from several of them, resulting in my never having to advertise my skills via paid advertising, I got enough recommendations to start my business, and the happy clients spread the news for me, believing that since they came to me by recommendation, they should return the favour and recommend others..... Oh yes, I own an Anorak, and when it is cold, I put it one, pull up the hood, and can;t hear a thing. (EG)......
PS we seem to share the same stupid sense of humour, you wouldn't be a Brit would you?

[kalliste]

Yes, i'm from Leeds..I was trained by John Thompson of Metropolis NLP....excellent trainer, and I would recommend to all budding NLP-ers, and I will be working with John more in the future to get through Masters and onwards to Trainer glory......

Now thats a nice strategy for dealing with my anorak issue. Course, with my reputation, a little ecology check before embarking on a "i can hypnotise with a glance and persuade your wife to fall into bed with me" method. Nice concept though....

Thanks for your reply. This was my first post to the forums although i've read a large number of the posts already, so its nice to feel welcomed!

As part of my business, I am considering releasing some Hypnosis therapy music to be available for download at low cost, and one area I would be interested in collaborating is to record some hypnotic voice to go over the top and create sets to help clients go into trance when alone. So I don't know if anyone has a lovely hypnotic voice, and I don't know whether anyone would be happy to work with me on this, but it could be an interesting and fun thing to do, which might earn a few bucks and help people out in the process. The thing is I want to do something a little different to other products out there, and make them more accessible to practitioners at a better price. Ideas and suggestions welcome....

Kalliste.

[Jack]

Welcome Kalliste, I enjoyed your first post.:)

If you can't switch the NLP off, then you are doing ok!

Jack

[kalliste]

Thanks Jack. In a manner of speaking I think its actually a cry for help to find some similar brains to bounce off....i'm so lonely.......perhaps I could find a time when i have been similarly lonely (perhaps the day i fell into a slurry pit at a festival when i was 18 and my friends wouldn't let me camp with them any more!) and anchor that moment, then I could fire it randomly when I need to switch off, thus triggering a state of simple wistful longing for acceptance and human interaction....... ;-)

Kalliste.

[Jack]

Ah, the old slurry pit problem. So familiar to NLP'ers. Get a 'good time' anchor and collapse it into the slurry pit or do a visual squash. this will help you to come to terms with slurry as the source of all happiness:)

Jack

[thackaray]

Ah, the old slurry pit problem. So familiar to NLP'ers. Get a 'good time' anchor and collapse it into the slurry pit or do a visual squash. this will help you to come to terms with slurry as the source of all happiness:)

Jack

If you're going to collapse anything into a slurry pit, watch out for the Splash back !!!! :D