Domains Of Use
5. Access resources in the client for bridging from the now to the solution state,
6. Utilize specific strategies and patterns for change, calibrating throughout the process.
Sports
NLF, in the domain of athletics and sports, plays a key role primarily in terms of steles and state-management Tor a number of years, 1 (MH) worked as a coach for a boys' gymnastics team and as a "menttil" coach for a girls' competitive team. As 1 did so, 1 focused primarily on assisting the youngsters to team about how to "run their own brains" so that they could put themselves into the best athletic state. This gave me the opportunity to help them identify resourceful and unresourceiul states—and how mind inevitably governs body.
1 found that 1 used the "state management" patterns a lot in that context (chapter 6), as well as the Desired Outcome Pattern (chapter 3), Anchoring (chapter 3), and Strategies (chapter 10). In.
the last case, each sport (and even each expert in each sport) will have its own strategy Thus we can anticipate a different strategy for skiing, basketball, swimming, racing, boxing, football, etc.
Here also beliefs about self, capability, possibility, learning, etc., will play a key role in supporting or limiting a person's perfor-mance (chapter 5). In this domain also one should consider the role of language. The best gymnasts that 1 worked with and inter-viewed had not only shitted to thinking of and defining themselves as a "gvmnast," but also had come to effectively language themselves as such (chapter 7).
Health
NLP, in the fields of health, medicine, fitness, etc., has much to say-As a holistic model, the neuro-linguistk model begins from the assumption of the mind-body connection. That is, what and how we communicate to ourselves inevitably (and inescapably) has an effect upon our body.
In this domain, therefore, the patterns for working with conflicting
"parts" (chapter 4) will play a crucial role. Whenever we have internal conflict within ourselves, we can expect to pay a price for that "conflict." This becomes true with a vengeance when we consider negative Meta-state structures that we create by which we turn our psychic energies against ourselves. Such "dragon" states (Hall, 1996) include: contempt of the self, anger against one's anger, fear about fear, rejection of fallibility, hatred of embarrass-ment, guilt about anger at one's fear, contempt for one's guilt about one's fear, etc.
Specific patterns that relate to health in this volume include the following: the Phobia Cure (#33 the V/K Dissociation pattern), #65 the Allergy Cure pattern, #66 the Grief Resolution pattern, #67 the Pre-Grieving pattern, #68 the Healthy Eating pattern, etc. (chapter 10).
Tn the domain of healthr we will also want to check out identity beliefs (Chapter 5), Many people have defined Lhemselves as sick or diseased, from a family predisposed to heart attacks, cancer, etc.
Others have built beliefs and mental maps that put limits on what kinds of experiences and processes can be addressed "psychologi-cally" To carry around such self-definitions inevitably affects treatment.
Similarly, ill the area of language and language use, if we language Ourselves for illness, disease, shortness of life, health problems, we frequently create a self-fulfilling prophecy (chapter 7). Here we need to listen carefully to our language and challenge unenhancing formations, e.g., "She's a pain in the neck," "1 always get a cold on holiday," "Committee meetings with him give me indigestion/' "Well no sleep tonight—I've got an important engagement tomorrow."
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Relationships
In the area 01 relationships, much NLP literal tire has been created -Here everything in NLP about communication: rapport, pacing, representational systems, predicates, anchoring, desired outcome frame, etc. (chapter 3), plays a most important role. Here, too, managing our own states, so that we meet people while in a "good place" (resourceful) rather than when unresourceful, enables us to
"be at our best" (chapter 6). Such state management skills and patterns also enable us to bring out the best in others.
And again, the role that language plays in relating to others—
disclosing our inner thoughts and feelings, our values and beliefs, our hopes and dreams—enables us to either connect with others, or to feel frustrated (chapter 7). Good relationships involve thp ability to connect with each other in terms of understanding and also in terms of good problem-solving and negotiating. Here we need some specific strategies for connecting, parenting, bonding, supporting, etc. (chapter 10).
Conclusion
As a model of human functioning, NLP applies to so many domains. And as a model of txaBettce in subjective experience, it provides us with a way ol thinking (a model) for us to effectively understand and work with such subjective experiences.
Epilogue
The revolution in modeling human excellence has begun, and by now you should have a pretty good idea of the very structure of how tn do magic with your own personality, with that of others, at work, with loved ones, for fun, etc. Let this empowerment of taking charge of your own dreams and experiences grow and expand until you become the magician you want to become using your own "spells"
that you cast in your mind and in your everyday languaging.
By now also you undoubtedly have access and experience to numerous N I. P patterns that can work "magic." And, if you have indeed been touched by some aspect of NLP magic, you may also have become curious about how that magic works Good. That provides you with the basic orientation of modeling. And, if indeed we have just barely scratched the surface of nil the magic that lies out there awaiting our discovery, then we need a lot more people with modeling skills. And with that we say...
Let the magic continue—!
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