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Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Dummies By Romilla ReadyKate Burton ( For Dummies )
Release Date: 2004-05-28
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NLP has a simple premise: take someone who's good at something, model how they do it and learn from them. This way it is possible to understand the thought processes common to excellence in any field and weed out negative or habitual thinking. Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques extremely popular in many areas including business, education, sports, coaching, counselling, personal development and relationships. Neuro-linguistic Programming for Dummies avoids the jargon of many other books and provides both the basic essentials for the beginner and advanced theory for experienced NLP readers
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 Annoying read
I totally agree with -among others- D. Font and would like to thank him for referring to Honest Abe's website which I found very usefull. This book isn't worth your time nor your money.
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 NLP
For Dummies series is brilliant. I have now got CBT for dummies and NLP for dummies. Both are easy reading, you can pick them up and open at any page. No jargon, anyone can understand the concepts in both books. I have used them to inform my Mental Health student nurses about the different approaches to treatment of depression, anxiety etc.
As I was a first timer on Amazon I was a little apprehensive about ordering 'on-line' and not absolutely sure I was going to get the goods ordered. However, they were quick to deliver, cheaper than the high street, I will not hesitate to order 'on-line' from Amazon in the future.
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The first step on a new path
I really enjoyed this book. A few friends recommended it and I have studied other NLP related material in the past. This book spells out a lot of the powerful concepts of NLP, and gives you real lessons that you can use to apply NLP and change your life.
And if you don't know what Neuro Linguistic Programming is, this is a great way to find out.
Also, If your friends have been bugging you to read "The Secret", but you're turned off by all the spiritual mumbo jumbo. check this book out. Its basically a scientific approach to the reality behind The Secret.
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 excellent intro to this subject matter
Very succint and easy to understand. A few U.S. to Brit. dialect translations will appear and it is just slightly geared toward women but it is a well written book in my opinion. I got a lot out of it. Thanks to the authors.
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Neuro-Linguistic Folklore for Dummies ( uprightape )
I second the nomination made by the Honest Abe reviewer, Andy Bradbury.
This was in the blurb for this book that I received from the "Dummies" mailing list:
"Your unconscious can't process negatives. It interprets everything you think as a positive thought. So if you think, 'I don't want to be poor,' your unconscious mind focuses on the 'poor and, because it doesn't do negatives, the thought becomes 'I want to be poor.'"
This astonishing claim made me wonder what sort of "neuro-linguistic programming" had been inflicted on the authors. There is no scientific, clinical, or even anecdotal evidence to support this claim. The idea that negatives automatically become positives in the unconscious, as in "I don't want to die" becomes "I want to die", is purely arbitrary.
Here and there a psychiatric patient who claims he/she does not want to die but seems bent to do so could certainly be cherry-picked out of a clinical pool to support this claim; but so could thousands upon thousands of other patients to support thousands and thousands of other claims about the unconscious. What this book reports amounts to nothing more than The Claim of the Day.
What, for example, does such a claim make of wealthy people who are obsessed with not being poor? Do their unconscious minds actually want to be poor and are hugely unsuccessful at making that happen? Or is this conflict supposedly why rich people are sometimes observed to be unhappy? What then about rich people who do not want to be poor and are happy?
With so many variables up in the air - and so many ignored - I found this book and all its vague, unsupported hypotheses to be impossible to juggle.
If the authors are to be believed, my unconscious absolutely loves this book. What do you think?
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