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Mind Maps

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Mind Maps has been called “the Swiss Army Knife for the Brain”.

Developed by Tony Buzan, it is used by hundreds and thousands of people and companies worldwide. I have successfully taught Mind Maps in China, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Italy and the UK, to individuals, public groups, schools, universities, and companies. Organisations such as HSBC Bank, Shanghai Airlines, Arrow Weld, Global Communications, Sheffield University et al.

Mind Maps can be used in many areas of our lives:-

   Personal
   Family
   Educational   
   Business
   Professional

What makes Mind Maps so powerful is that they use the brain as it should be used, using both sides of the brain’s hemispheres, with the use of pictures, colour and movement, key words, and progressive radiant ideas.
 
If we consider that the brain has two hemispheres, the left and right, the left being understood to be the logical, mathematical brain and the right being the creative brain, we can see from our educational background that we have been taught and we work very left brain. We write in black and white, in straight lines. We think in logical sequences.

We only use half our brain capacity, only our left hemisphere.

Using Mind Maps brings into play our right hemisphere, the brain that likes colour, movement, creativity, doubling our processing power.
                                                      

We implement Mind Maps in PhotoReading, the ability to absorb words at 20,000 – 30,000 WPM.

I use Mind Maps for speeches, presentations, talks, and I never leave anything out.

The one day Mind Map course teaches you and your company the background, why we use Mind Maps, with loads of examples to practice.

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Eye Accessing Cues



                                        Eye Accessing Cues DiagramEYE ACCESSING CUES

               VC – Visual Constructed
               VR – Visual Remembered
               AC – Auditory Constructed
               AR – Auditory Remembered
               K   – Kinesthetic
               AD – Auditory Digital

Also known as lateral eye movements in neurological terms, eye accessing cues allows the NLP Practitioner to observe how people are accessing different parts of their brain as they think and process information. This will allow us to communicate in the same modality, the same language as the people you observe. It is also a good way of telling if you are being told the truth.

If you ask someone to think of or visualise the face of their mother, they will probably look up to their right. See the diagram above. VR

If you ask someone to think about or visualise a pink elephant, they will probably look up and to their left, as the diagram above. VC

If you ask someone to recall the sound of the school bell, they will probably move their eyes to their right, neither up or down as the diagram shows above. AR

Ask the person to imagine a Martian speaking, (a sound they have never heard), they will probably look to their left, as the diagram. AC

Ask a person what it is like to feel a bar of soap in their hands, they will probably move their eyes down towards their right. K

When people are having an internal dialog, talking to themselves, they will probably look down to their left. AD

The movements will be very slight and an unconscious movement, by asking questions of a person to remember or construct a memory so you can observe their processing modality, V,A,K, will result in the person being very conscious of their own eye movements, so do not let them know what you are doing, just observe.

The movements can change direction, the remembered can move to their left, and visa versa. You will have to calibrate to the eye movements, by asking questions that you know the answer to. There is a theory that left handed people will reverse the pattern, but I have not observed this in all the courses I have run throughout the world.

By observing and modifying the communication you have with people, so that you converse in the same modality, will have a big impact on how they respond to you.

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The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells, Jeff Wayne

“No-one would have believed…………”

There are a few things in life that inspire me. Music. People. Places. Objects.

When I have those moments, those times, I know they are special. I will hold on to those, forever.

In music, there are very special tunes, songs, arrangements, that have captured my imagination, and after one hearing, they have stayed with me.

My college days at the Stafford College of Commerce in Wednesbury, when we, Philip Green, Paula Dawes et al, went into a coffee bar in Walsall, spending 6d (six old pence, read story, click here), to play The Animal’s House of the Rising Sun. It lasted the longest time, that was value for money.

When I first started work, say 1968, with the National Coal Board Computer Power in Cannock in the Midlands of the UK, the shift system we worked allowed me and my colleagues to have breaks of four days. One of these breaks I went camping with Pete to Barmouth in Wales, and sitting on a wall outside a pub, the sound of Mike Oldfield’s, Tubular Bells rang out. The haunting melody is in my mind now.

Simon and Garfunkel’s, Bridge Over Troubled Water was played in a house Pete and myself rented in Pelsall at the time, and I would entertain girlfriends in the front room. It was not my LP record, I never had a record player or LP’s, but the songs created a great atmosphere for romance. Well it worked for me.

Neil Diamond’s Beautiful Noise, was a song I heard driving my VW Beetle up the A52 from Bottesford to Grantham in the East Midlands one morning, and it made my hair stand up on my arms. It still does today, as I listen with such joy at the arrangement.

James Last, and his unique big band sound. Sitting in the front room of the first house I purchased at 13 Cox Drive, Bottesford, having created a stereo sound system from bits and pieces of equipment before the days of commercially available equipment, and trying to sit in the precise position between the giant homemade speakers so I could hear the dueling between the various instruments of his orchestra. I was later able to hear James Last live at Leicester’s De Montford Hall. Wow.

Around 1979, my life was influenced by another collection of words, songs and music.

Based on the story of H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne created a musical master piece. 

I can loose myself in the story as narrated by Richard Burton, sung by David Essex, Phil Lynott, Julie Covington, Justin Haywood, as the Martians invaded Earth, not in America as the movies suggest, but in the UK, the area I live, Woking, Horsell Common, et al.

The music creates images in my mind so real, as Peter and the Wolf, (click to read), I see the Martian’s machines as they rape the earth and humanity on their way to London, the sinking of the ship HMS Thunderchild, the eventual destruction of the Martian’s with the red weed. See the blog NLP now – Our Minds Eye (click to read).

I went into Central London, and as always playing with Phillip’s Sausage, I saw that Jeff Wayne was to appear in Virgin’s Megastore, a massive CD music store in London’s Piccadilly Circus, signing copies of his latest release of War of the Worlds. 

                                                      Phillip with Jeff Wayne, London 2007

It was in Istanbul, walking up Taxim Hill after having a meal with my translator Asuman Yildirim that as I passed a previously unseen store, (D&R), my attention was drawn to the corner of the window, and there was the Collectors Edition of the War of the Worlds, something I never knew existed. I had to buy it.

It was at the beginning of the year when I purchased a newspaper I never really buy, that I opened the pages and there was an advertisement for Jeff Wayne’s live performance in London’s O2 Arena in December 2007 (click to visit). I had to book a seat. To book, visit www.thewaroftheworlds.com.

“No-one would have believed…………” that such things can happen, that we are presented with opportunities, chances, possibilities, but we are.

Synchronicity. The release of human possibilities. Breaking free of limits. It will happen if it should happen.

C.G. Jung describes synchronicity as “a meaningful coincidence of two or more events, where something other than the possibility of chance is involved.”

        2 CD selection     Highlights        Collectors Edition

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All comes to those that wait

There is a saying in English, “all comes to those that wait.”

There is another English saying, “strike whilst the iron is hot.”

Here is another one, “if you have a problem sleep on it.”

The sayings above will all have their counterparts, or similar sayings in most cultures, as has proven in my trainings throughout the world.

Small world, isn’t it?

Many years ago in Carnaby Street, Central London, the birthplace of “mod” fashion of the 1960’s, the place to be seen with the rock stars, I came across a shop selling rings, and saw a special ring that caught my eye. For some time I pondered whether to buy the ring, but I never did, even though I returned many times to the shop, the eye stood out, but my hand never went into my pocket to get the money out to buy it.

One day, perhaps two years after initially setting my eye on the ring, I went back to Carnaby Street to buy the ring. The shop had changed. Now it was sports shirts, running shoes, no jewelry.

Oh Poo Poo. click to understand.

I asked in the new shop where had the old shop gone, no one knew. I asked in neighbouring shops, still no-one knew.

Perhaps I become obsessive with what I do. Yes I think I do.

When I want to know something, to learn something, I search for the information, go the best to learn from them, that is why I sought-out, Paul McKenna, Ormond McGill, Joe McMoneagle, Richard bandler, John Grinder, Paul Scheele, Dr Win Wenger, Tony Buzan, Gianni Golfera, Doug O’Brian, et al, then I can teach others.

When I have a problem, I know I can solve it, perhaps using technology, I will search for the solution, and not rest until I resolve it, for example the Dualphone 3088. (click)

I searched all over London for the ring. Nothing.

Asu joined in the search. Together we would scour the jewelry shops in the back streets of Istanbul only to be offered the Turkish eye. 

Asuman and myself, one evening in Kadikoy, following a strange meal in a square I think named after a duck, came across a shopkeeper that said he could get one, but next week.

I felt good, at last I had it. Or had I? No.

The Turkish Eye

My search continued, Italy, Turkey, Spain, England, India. Nothing.

Then last Sunday, always searching, always seeking the impossible, the missing, I was in Covent Garden Market, I asked a stall holder, and he told me of a shop just off Carnaby Street, The Great Frog, they had them. With hope in my heart, I went to the shop, only to find it closed and with a grill over the window which made it impossible to view the goods on sale.

Undeterred, I returned Monday, and yes they had one, just the one I wanted.

After all these years of searching, the shop was less than 100 yards (metres) from the original shop I had seen all those years ago.

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Sunday – Central London

Sunday was a hot, humid day in London, and I had to catch-up of arrangements for future courses, which meant a trip into Central London.

Whatever is said about the Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, he has made great differences in the scene and transportation systems of the UK capital. More people are using areas of London which only a few years ago were devoid of people, especially the South Bank. New eating places, places to relax, walk, run or have fun none exist.

Walking across the New Hungerford Bridge, linking Waterloo Railway Station, The Royal Festival Hall and the London Eye, to Charing Cross Railway Station and the Embankment, across the River Thames, the vista of London is there for all to see. 

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Downstream Waterloo Bridge, with the nude men (click to see) standing guard either end, St Paul’s Cathedral behind and the new Gerkin building, and cranes indicating more construction underway.

Upstream, the London Eye, the Houses of Parliament, and i the distance, the MI5 building made famous by the James Bond film.

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  In Covent Garden, a popular eating and meeting place, that once used to be the wholesale market for London’s fruit and vegetables. Here was a special celebration for the formation of Malaysia fifty years ago, and there were a variety of displays and dancers for the public to see.

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Today is Better – Stage Hypnosis gets closer

Today, Sunday, is a better day.

I have awoken early, and feel so much more alive. For the last few days I have been aching, my chest, my neck, my legs. Perhaps I do do too much, put too many hours into each twenty-four hours, trying to achieve too many things.

But, at long last I have the internet working. Me the computer “expert”, taking so long to solve the problem. I still cannot send emails via the new ISP, but that is something they will have to solve on Monday.

Today I well go into Central London to start the arrangements for the up and coming Stage Hypnosis Course in September.

It is a course I love. To take a participant who has never been hypnotised, and in two days get them on the evening of the last day on stage, having gained all the skills to perform a live stage hypnosis show.

                                                            

That is gratifying, and has been for many years since Chanel 4 TV and Discovery Chanel filmed my course and shown it world-wide. To this day I am seen on TV, and people sign up now.

                                                      

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Eating Out

The Basil Diner, Kingston upon Thames – More Food. Sorry.


A restaurant very close to the flat of Norbiton Hall where I live, has recently opened its’ doors to business.


On the London Road, leaving Kingston upon Thames, is The Basil Diner, rather a strange name for a restaurant, but having Chinese writing over the door, one would presuppose this was a Chinese restaurant.


On entering the restaurant is clean and inviting, it seems always having an available table to choose from.


The waitress greets the guests with enthusiasm, and is eager to please. As does the management, who will take time to talk to the diners.


The first one has to know that this is a Malaysian cuisine restaurant, giving different tastes and ingredients to the traditional Chinese food. See the menu. click


                                                         

From Wan Ton soup, pork and prawn dumplings in a clear soup with the green vegetable pak choi, or the Tom Yum hot and sour soup from Thailand, to Malaysian Mee Goreng, a stir fried noodle with chicken, fishcake, egg, garnished with coriander, chilli and lemon, the food is served in good portions, and the quality is the best.


For me I cannot take the taste or smell of the Sambal paste which seems to be a basic ingredient in the cooking of Malaysian cooking, and the curries play havoc with my stomach, so I keep clear of those. But there is plent to choose from.

Unlike traditional Malaysian or Chinese serving, the food is delivered on individual plates to each diner, so each person chooses their own meal. No sharing of the central dishes.


The tastes and cooking is traditional Malaysian, with the staff all originating from Malaysia.

Very good food, and good value for money.

                        

On this occasion, apart from my food left-hand picture, and on the right of the of the right-hand picture, food was served in the center of the table for all to serve themselves.

                           The Basil Diner, London Road, Kingston upon Thames, UK

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                                                      Click here to see menu as of 8th June 2007.

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Eating Out

The Basil Diner, Kingston upon Thames – The Menu

This is the menu of The Basil Diner in Kingston upon Thames as of June 2007.

Very good food, Malaysian Chinese cuisine, at a reasonable price.

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                           The Basil Diner, London Road, Kingston upon Thames, UK, Tel:- 02085469757

                                                      Click here to see menu as of 8th June 2007.

                                                                        ENJOY YOUR MEAL.

Phillip Holt, NLPNOW.

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Fortune Tellers. True or False?

Can one tell the future?

For those that know me well. Look at my star forecast as in the Metro, a free newspaper in London, for Tuesday, 6th June 2007, my day of return from training courses in India.

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I wonder.

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Eating Out

Dim Sum

Dim Sum is a traditional Chinese light meal or snack, served from morning to late afternoon.

Usually served in small steamer baskets or small plates, the food offers a variety of choices, from fish, meat, vegetables, noodles, desserts, and gallons of Chinese tea, mainly a flower or yellow tea. No milk.

Dim Sum at the New World Restaurant, London China TownNew World, where the food selection is taken from table to table on trolleys, and as they pass, you can chose what you want. Perhaps not the most elegant restaurant, but good food, but the atmosphere is good..