For an up and coming trip to India to give a training course in PhotoReading (click to visit web) I had to apply for a visa to enter the country.
After arriving in Waterloo station, I walked across Waterloo bridge to Aldwych, and came across this statute.
Enjoy.
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Today I start a course for Coaching in Kadikoy in conjunction with NLPGrup, in a district of Istanbul on the Eastern side of the Bosphorus.
We travel on a beautiful sunny day by car across the bridge, thankfully on Saturday there is not much traffic, but there is enough time to look down onto the waters of the Bosphorus, with the ferries criss crossing from one side to the other. Large ocean going vessels slowly sale up and down from the Black Sea towards the Marmara Sea.
On arrival, I find I have another class to incorporate into my day, the English NLP course. Thank goodness for Mustapha, I need the strength, but good fun.
Oh dear, on arrival we cannot get into the school building, someone has forgotten the key to get in. Great I can get breakfast.
, I went for lunch at the local little restaurant, <strong>Kevilcim Cafe ev Yemekleri.</strong> </p>
<p>I think the meal was called floating meat balls, tastes better than it looks, with a side plate of pasta. The restaurant is small, with very few tables, is run by some lovely people, it is home from home.</p>
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Many people ask me about terms used in NLP. These may help you.
I will endeavor to describe the words, but please send me comments and new words as you wish.
| Accessing Cues | As the human thinks or processes information, they give of information in breathing, gestures, eye movements |
| Ambiguity | Words or statements that can be interpreted in more than one way. |
| Analogue | A variable that can change on a continuum from say high to low. See Digital. – on or off. |
| Anchoring | A state or process that can be captured by a word, sight, feeling, which when triggered will cause that state or process to be recalled. |
| Associated | Seeing, hearing feeling as if doing those things from within oneself. Actually doing the act. |
| Auditory | The act of hearing or speaking. |
| Backtrack | To go back, review, recall, using the same tonality, words, actions. |
| Behaviour | Any process to be engaged with, physically or mentally. |
| Beliefs | The way a person understands the world from their generalised view. |
| Calibration | To notice and to be able to reproduce another’s state. |
| Capability | A strategy of success to do a task. |
| Chunking | To take an idea or concept, to chunk up to a higher logical level being less specific, to chunk down a logical level, to be more specific. |
| Complex Equivalence | Two statements which have no relevance to each other, but are joined together as if they are. |
| Congruence | A state of persons being in rapport, thinking and doing together to a common outcome. |
| Conscious | The state of mind that we are aware of at the present time. |
| Content Reframing | By taking a statement and giving it a different meaning. |
| Context Reframing | By taking a statement and using it in another context or situation. |
| Conversational Postulate | Posing a question in such a way for it to become a command. |
| Criterion | What is important in a certain situation or process. |
| Cross-over Mirroring | To match another’s physical movement with another movement of ones own. |
| Deep Structure | That part of communication which has been omitted, leaving the surface structure. |
| Deletion | That part of an experience that has been omitted, removed from the conscious process. |
| Digital | Two states, which is either true or false, yes or no, with no variability, see Analogue. |
| Dissociated | Seeing, hearing or feeling as if watching ones self doing, not in the experience. See Associated. |
| Distortion | An inaccurate representation of an experience as a internal experience. |
| Downtime | To go into ones own thoughts and feelings, in a relax state or hypnotic state. |
| Ecology | To have regards to customs, beliefs, values, environment, surroundings. |
| Elicitation | Using questions and observations, possibly with the Meta Model to gather information about behaviour |
| Epistemology | Knowing how we know how we know. |
| Eye Accessing Cues | The movement of the eyes that indicate the processing of information, of visual, auditory, both internal and external, Kinesthetic, and auditory digital. |
| Eyes Closed Process | Used to describe the process of going into trance or hypnosis. |
Feedback First Position |
Are we communicating what we are meant to communicate?
Part of Perceptual Positions. Seeing or being as ones self. |
| Frame | The way we perceive, understand something. |
| Future Pace | To mentally rehearse some future event or happening with a positive outcome. |
| Generalisation | Combining all experiences of a similar nature into one specific experience. |
| Gustatory | The sense of taste V.A.K.O.G. |
| Hypnosis | A state, perhaps of relaxation. |
| Identity | How one sees ones-self, the self-image. |
| Incongruence | Not in agreement with, having conflict with, often seen or expressed in behaviour. |
| Installation | To facilitate the acquiring of a new state or behaviour. |
| Intention | The desired outcome of an action. |
| Internal Representations | How information is stored in the mind, Visually, Auditory, Kinaesthetically, the tastes and smells. |
| Kinesthetic | The sense of feeling, internal and external, sensations, emotions. |
| Lead System | The representational system to load information into the conscious mind. |
| Leading | The actions or processes that others will follow. |
| Linguistic | Language, how it is constructed. |
| Logical Level | Levels of information, lower levels are pieces of information contained in a higher level of information. |
| Looping | Starting a story or metaphor, without finishing starting another, then going back to finish or end the stories or metaphors. The person or thing doing the act is missing, see Meta Model |
| Map of the World | The understanding or representation a person makes of the world with their own experiences. |
| Matching | Enacting another’s posture, actions or language to gain rapport. |
| Meta | More of, greater than, beyond. |
| Meta Model | To use language to recover the deep structure about a belief, experience or understanding, the opposite of Milton Model.
A diagram showing the language patterns of the Meta Model with links to explanations. |
| Meta-cognition | Being able to explain knowledge to others. |
| Metaphor | To tell a story with a hidden meaning, having a comparable situation as the real situation. |
| Metaprograms | Habits that we filter information of experiences to get information or understandings. |
| Milton Model | Using vague language patterns, so the resources of the individuals unique unconscious mind has to be accessed to gain understanding. Derived from the works of Milton Erickson. The opposite of Meta Model. |
| Mirroring | To match another’s physical movement with the same movement of ones own precisely. |
| Mismatching | To break rapport by doing different patterns, pattern interrupt. |
| Modal Operator of Necessity | Terms in linguistics to change the rules or how we process the information, should could, will etc. |
| Modal Operator of Possibility | Terms in linguistics that will change how processes can be done, can, cannot etc. |
| Modality | The representational Systems V.A.K.O.G. |
| Model | Term used to describe how a process is done, with V.A.K.O.G. |
| Modelling | The act of or the process of finding out how a process works in the sequence it happens in. |
| Multiple Descriptions | Describing a process or experience from different positions or viewpoints. |
| Neuro | How the human processes information in the brain. |
| Neurological Levels | Different logical levels of experience, involving the, environment, behaviour, capability, belief, identity, and spirituality. |
| New Code NLP | “New” NLP descriptions and ideas from John Grinder et al. |
| NLP | Neuro-Linguistic Programming. How people achieve excellence and how they structure that experience. |
| Nominalization | To change a verb into a noun. To love becomes love. |
| Olfactory | The sense of smell. V.A.K.O.G. |
| Outcome | A sensory-based specific result of a future event that is well-formed. |
| Overlap | To work in or communicate in one sense or representational system, then access another. Seeing into hearing. |
| Pacing | To gain rapport with someone and keeping that rapport over a time. Used with leading. |
| Parts | The subconscious actions or intentions that guide us. |
| Pattern Interrupt | To pace an individuals habitual processes or actions, then interrupt them, then guiding them in another direction or process. |
| Perceptual Filters | The individuals beliefs, ideas, experiences that create their model of the world. |
| Perceptual Positions | How we understand the world from our perspective (1st position), another persons (2nd), an observer’s (3rd), a 4th can be added that of a Martian. |
| Phonological Ambiguity | Two words that sound the same but have different meanings. Sea/see, hear/here. |
| Physiological | The physical body of a person. |
| Predicates | Sensory based words that indicate the use of the representational system. V.A.K.O.G. |
| Preferred System | The representational system mostly used to process information or experiences. |
| Presuppositions | Statements or ideas that are taken for granted to make sense of some communication. |
| Punctuation Ambiguity | Joining or merging two unrelated sentences together without punctuation as if they were related. |
| Quotes | To say something as if someone else has said it. |
| Rapport | To establish and maintain trust and understanding between people. |
| Reframing | To change an idea, belief or frame of reference, by issuing another statement giving the original belief a new meaning. |
| Representation | How sensory-based information V.A.K.O.G. is stored in the mind. |
| Representation System |
The V.A.K.O.G. (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory) sensory systems stored in the mind. |
| Requisite Variety | Being able to be flexible to have choice in behaviour and thought. |
| Resourceful State | The state when physical and psychological states are very good to achieve good results. |
| Resources | Any experiences, learning’s, states, strategies that can be used to achieve an outcome. |
| Second Position | Part of perceptual positions, that of seeing things from another’s view point. |
| Secondary gain | Where some function is derived from another action, strategy or process that may be problematic, a phobia etc. |
| Sensory Acuity | Being more aware of the sensory-based information of any experience. |
| Sensory-Based Description | Using sensory-based descriptions to describe an experience. |
| Sleep-Like | People belief that hypnosis is sleep is untrue, it is a sleep-like state, where the subject is totally aware of the environment. |
| State | The mood one is in at a given time, being the sum total of physical and psychological processes at that time. |
| Strategy | How one achieves an outcome, the process of thoughts and behaviours, defined by V.A.K.O.G. |
| Submodality | The representational Systems V.A.K.O.G. broken down into smaller part, to hear, – load, soft, far away, near. |
| Surface Structure | The communication we make, deleting or leaving out , information from the deep structure. |
| Synesthesia | Linking one sense to anther sense automatically. |
| T.O.T.E. | Test, Operate, Test, Exit. A model of a strategy. |
| Third position | Part of perceptual positions, that of seeing things from an observers position. |
| Timeline | How past, present and future experiences are positioned in space as we thing of them. |
| Trance | The altered state of hypnosis. |
| Transderivational Search | The process of accessing experiences and representations to make sense of the present experience. |
| Translating | The process of rephrasing words from one representational system predicates to another. |
| Tuple (4-Tuple) | The short hand method of writing down the strategies or expeience using the four primary modalities or representation systems, V.A.K. |
| Unconscious | All that is not in the conscious mind at that moment. |
| Universal Quantifiers | Used in the Meta Model, that in linguistic terms links “everything” together in one word, All. Nobody. |
| Unspecified Nouns | Nouns that have no referral as to who they belong to or what they refer to. |
| Unspecified Verbs “Predicates“ |
The process is no described by an adverb, how it was carried out. He ran, how did he run, fast or slow. |
| Uptime | Where the attention or state are aware of everything. |
| Values | Those beliefs that are important. |
| Visual | The sense of sight. |
| Visualisation | The act of imagination of seeing things in the mind, with the third eye. |
| Well-Formed | An outcome or idea that is achievable, verifiable and ecological. |
| INDEX | |
This index is an ongoing project that will last me a life-time.
A
Alexander, Graham
Alma, Desa Palma 1
G
Hypnosis 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,
26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40
I
Ibanoglu, Halil 1,2
Iceland, a holiday
Isabella Plantation 1
J
K
Kek Lok Si 1
Kingston upon Thames 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
L
La Cantine 1,2,3,4,5
Lack of Referential Index 1,
Lost performative 1,
M
Memory Techniques
Merdizan, Deniz 1,2
Merlin Engine 1
Meta Model 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19
Metaphor 1
Migraine 1,2,3
Miller, George 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Mind Maps 1,2,3,4
Mind Reading 1,
Modal Operators 1,
N
NOP
Nominalisation 1,
Norbiton Hall 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
O
O’Brian, Doug 1
X
Y
Yildirim, Asuman 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
Z
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The trip back to the UK has been taken up by sorting business out, the bank, paying bills, organising future dates, tax affairs, and visas.
On this Friday, (tomorrow) I return to Istanbul Turkey, to give a number of courses, Coaching, Mind Maps, NLP Practitioner level, memory skills and what ever to organisers can throw at me.
I have an appointment in the UK on the 27th of the month for my health, and then fly to Bangalore, India on the 29th for a PhotoReading course, with a projected fifty participants. I need a visa to enter India, so off into London I go.
Sitting here on the train watching people on the way to work, reminds me of the days I would catch the train every morning. Not a word is spoken, people are in their own worlds, trying not to look into others eyes, reading the next persons newspaper, as the newspaper owner tries to hide the print, people catching-up on sleep.
There are smells, curries from last night, stale wine and beer, and what smells like tinned tuna meat. I wish there was a Dior perfume.
The sound of the train announcement “the next station is Wimbledon, please mind the gap between the train and the platform edge,” takes my mind away from the man next to me with an IPod playing some unknown music, all I hear is the bum bum bum. He seems to like it.
Now I hear that there are now train delays due to a power supply problem. Oh Poo Poo. (click to see.) but we are still speeding down the track. The worried look of the passenger faces tells me some will be late.
Thank goodness I have stopped this daily commute into the heart of London. I now only have to sit waiting for hours in airport departure lounges and cramped aircraft seats, listening to the beautiful languages of the world over loudspeakers I find difficult to tune into.
The grass is always greener on the other side.
We all think that other peoples lot, other peoples lives, are better than our own.
As we pull into Waterloo Station I think. Are other peoples lives better than mine?
Waterloo Station’s main entrance not usually seen.
I think not. I think my map of my territory is OK. (see here the Map is not the Territory)
The joy of flying. Yesterday I flew from Milan to London with Alitalia.
The flight to London was due to leave 16 minutes ago, but we are just sitting here, on an extremely hot aircraft, for what we have been told another thirty minutes, due they say to traffic congestion.
After what seemed an age, we left the aircraft stand, only to kept in a holding area at the end of the runway. But not for too long, the engines picked up, and we soon sped down the tarmac runway. The force from the engine thrust the plane accelerating to take-off speed, at which point my seat reclining mechanism decided not to support me, and I found myself in a fully reclined position. It was very uncomfortable, (seat 14L AZ0230 9/5/07 if Alitalia should read this), and now I can appreciate the announcement by the flight attendants to put the seat in an upright position for takeoff and landing.
Not long after getting into the air flying over the beautiful Alps, food was served. This time not in a box, but on a tray. Still a sandwich, with I think some kind of omelet inside. Also with the sandwich was a jam tart, the pastry thick and hard, interesting taste that satisfied my hunger.
Well my case arrived, but we had to wait a long time before they came tumbling down onto the conveyor belt, which meant that my taxi driver had to wait even longer for me and thus charged me waiting time.
Oh I love flying.
Monday 7/5/07.
An early morning start, at 4am to catch the 6am Alitalia flight to Milan.
Food on board Alitalia seems always to be a sandwich, a cold drink, (I like the red orange juice), plus a piece of cake and yogurt, all in a green box. A choice of tea or coffee is offered, but weak tea and powdered milk.
There never seems to be any other food available other than the sandwich with a thin sliver of nondescript meat with a spread of cream cheese I think. At least with the no-thrills airlines, like Iceland Express, easyJet and Ryan Air there is a choice, firstly of having food or not, (if you want food you pay for it), plus there is a choice of food available, and served with a smile.
I was determined to take a photograph of this offering to put here on the blog, but for the first time I was told not to use a digital camera whilst in flight, I have not heard of that rule except during take off and landing. Perhaps the flight attendant had had too early a start like me.
Some service people like to make up the rules as they go.
Because of changes in course requirements in Turkey, I decided to change my flight dates. My ticket allowed changes, but only with the airline itself. I rang the airline to be told that there were no available seats for my desired flight, which was one week away. This could be true, and when I asked for flights the same day and the previous day, there were still no seats. I contacted my travel agent, (James at the Flight Center, Kingston), and asked them to check availability. There were seats available on all flights.
The saying if at first you do not succeed try, try again.
This is true with the airline in question. I was told it is always best to try until you get what you wanted.
I waited a couple of hours until the customer service representative would be going home or in a better mood, and tried again.
“Yes sir, that is done. Is there anything else I can help you with?” another helpful assistant replied.
My faith in the airline was restored until I had this sandwich for breakfast.
When we talk about surface structure and deep structure, we are referring to the way we communicate with the world about us.
We have seen previously that in 1956, George Miller came up with the notion of the human being only being able to handle 7 pieces of information at any time plus or minus 2. (click here).
It is my belief from my working with hypnosis and PhotoReading that all experiences we are exposed to will be placed in the brain.
We have the concept of two brains. The first is the conscious brain, that part of the brain that we are aware of, our thinking brain, the one we talk to ourselves with, see and hear with, the one that we have feelings with. The second brain is our subconscious brain, this is the brain we are not aware of. It is the pat of us that does things for us without us consciously thinking about it, like waking up at the correct time in the morning, multiplying 2 x 2, talking, walking.
It is my belief that Miller’s 7+/-2 concept is for the conscious mind, as with hypnosis it is possible to access information not available in the “waking” state, things we did not realised we had noticed.
With PhotoReading we can absorb vast amounts of information, 20,000 – 30,000 words per minute, a page a second. This information goes into our inner mind, and is available to us, but we have to activate it, get it from our inner mind, our subconscious mind.
If we understand the above and accept the understanding now, we can liken the brain as an iceberg floating in the sea. Two thirds of an iceberg is bolow the surface, only a third is visable. And so it is with the human brain. Information that is consciously available to us is that of the iceberg above water, the surface structure, yet below the waterline the subconscious is even more information, the deep structure.
When we use communication, talk to people, pass on information, we delete a lot of information, we give surface structure information. The cat sat on the branch of the tree with Peter. (NLP Now – Peter and the Wolf).
The statement given does not say which cat, how it sat, on which branch, how high was it, how long had it been there, etc, etc. This information is at the deep structure, and as NLPer’s it is our job to help our clients get to this information should it be appropriate, to enrich their world.
We will use such method and tools as those in the Meta Model.
My interest in hypnosis started many years ago, and has taken me on a fantastic journey of discovery of the human mind, and has enabled me to help myself and others to change for the better, to do what we are entitled to do, anything. OK, within the law, our culture, religion, our social setting.
I have worked and studied with the best, Ormond McGill, Jerry Valley, Gill Boyne, Paul McKenna, Richard Bandler, Michael Breen. I am eternally indebted to their help and teachings.
As I became a hypnotherapist, a trainer of the NGH (National Guild of Hypnotists), a trainer of NLP, giving and training Stage Hypnosis, I too gained a good reputation, but the one thing that was missing was my voice that participants and clients could take away.
A good friend and colleague Lex McKee (Lex Studios) and I got together in his recording studio and produced the CD The Castle MP3. (Download by clicking here.)
here or visiting the web site http://www.nlpnow.net .
