The User's Manual For The Brain Vol 1: Complete Manual for Neuro-linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification [Hardcover]

"The 'User's Manual For The Brain' by Bob and Michael is the best NLP manual ever written so far." --Fausto S. Izcaray, PhD.

As a practitioner of N.L.P I was delighted to read this book. Having trained in the early eighties and developed many of my own strategies in true NLP fashion it was both refreshing and affirming to return to the ideas that have influenced how I train others to work so effectively in A Quiet Place today. It was like meeting old relatives that you have forgotten about and remembering their influence affectionately.The User s Manual for the Brain is a practical training text book filled to the brim with ideas and exercises to use in a wide variety of situationsThe foundations of NLP are both skilfully explained and easy to understand. A step by step guide to learning and practising the tools of NLP that anyone can follow and for people like myself a reminder of the process and content and inspiration that is NLP. Clear examples of the techniques and application to a wide range of arenas make this a significant book, invaluable for anyone seriously interested in empowering effective change in people. I will be delighted to place it on our training book list for those of our practitioners who are interested in exploring further. So thank you NLP and authors. --Penelope Moon CEO A Quiet Place

As a practitioner of N.L.P I was delighted to read this book. Having trained in the early eighties and developed many of my own strategies in true NLP fashion it was both refreshing and affirming to return to the ideas that have influenced how I train others to work so effectively in A Quiet Place today. It was like meeting old relatives that you have forgotten about and remembering their influence affectionately.The User s Manual for the Brain is a practical training text book filled to the brim with ideas and exercises to use in a wide variety of situationsThe foundations of NLP are both skilfully explained and easy to understand. A step by step guide to learning and practising the tools of NLP that anyone can follow and for people like myself a reminder of the process and content and inspiration that is NLP. Clear examples of the techniques and application to a wide range of arenas make this a significant book, invaluable for anyone seriously interested in empowering effective change in people. I will be delighted to place it on our training book list for those of our practitioners who are interested in exploring further. So thank you NLP and authors. --Penelope Moon CEO A Quiet Place

"The User's Manual for the Brain by Bobby Bodenhamer and Michael Hall is the most complete, concise, and clear book on the subject of NLP that I have ever come across - and I have a room full of such books!. I am not one to come out and give my views often, but feel compelled to because of the learnings that I received from this book. Thanks to both of you for your time and efforts in writing this book. I truly believe your book is the best guide out there to learning NLP."

..an excellent book, full of wonderful ideas and giving a clear explanation of NLP techniques.

This work is a comprehensive manual covering the NLP Practitioner course. Fully revised and updated, it contains late 20th-century developments in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, particularly with regard to the Meta-States model and the Meta-model of language. For those embarking on practitioner training or wishing to study to parctitioner level at home, this book is a detailed companion. It is written and designed by two of the most important theorists in NLP today.

Bob G. Bodenhamer DMin is a highly regarded trainer and innovative theorist in the field of NLP. As a teacher at Gaston College, North Carolina, he provides certified NLP training for Practitioners and Master Practitioners, and is also a therapy consultant. Bob now serves as the pastor of a mission church, and also runs his own private therapy practice. He has co-authored six books with L. Michael Hall PhD. L. Michael Hall PhD has authored many ground-breaking works on neuro-linguistics, communication, emotions and motivation. One of the foremost authors on the NLP scene, he is dedicated to taking its techniques into new and exciting realms of therapy and personal development. Michael currently works as a psychotherapist and trainer in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Experiment #1 from the Introduction:

Recall some pleasant experience from your past. Various things will pop into your mind, whatever pops up in your mind, allow yourself to go with that memory for now. If you don't seem to find such a memory, then allow yourself to simply imagine a pleasant experience. For some people, closing the eyes helps in this process. Once you have this pleasant experience, permit it to remain in your awareness.

Now that you have this pleasant thought in mind just notice its visual aspects. As you recall the experience, what specifically do you see? Notice the picture of the memory. If you do not visualize well, then imagine what the pleasant experience feels like. Or, allow yourself to just listen to some pleasant sounds words or music enjoy that kind of an internal pleasant experience.

Now that you have the picture of the memory, make the picture larger. Let it double in size... and then let that picture double... Notice what happens. When you make the picture bigger, what happens? Do the feelings intensify?

Now shrink the picture. Make it smaller and smaller. Allow it to become so small you can hardly see it... Stay with that a moment... Does the intensity of the feelings decrease? Experiment now with making the picture bigger and then smaller. When you make it smaller, do your feelings decrease? And when you make it larger, do your feelings increase? If so, then running the pictures (sounds, feelings) in your awareness in this way functions as it does for most people. However, you may have a different experience. Did you? No big deal. We all code our experiences in our minds uniquely and individually. Now, put your picture of that pleasant experience back in a format where you find it most comfortable and acceptable. Maintaining the same picture now, move the picture closer to you. Just imagine that the picture begins to move closer and closer to you, and notice that it will. What happens to your feelings as it does? ... Move the picture farther away. What happens when you move the picture farther away? Do your feelings intensify when you move the picture closer? Do your feelings decrease when you move the picture farther away? Most people find this true for the way their consciousness/neurology works. When you moved the picture farther away, the feeling probably decreased. Notice that as you change the mental representation in your mind of the experience, your feelings change. This, by the way, describes how we can "distance" ourselves from experiences, does it not?

Suppose you experiment with the color of the picture? As you look at your pictures, do you see them in color or black-and-white? If your pictures have color, make them black-and-white, and vice versa if you have them coded as black-and-white When you change the color, do your feelings change?

Consider the focus of your images: in focus or out of focus? Do you see an image of yourself in the picture or do you experience the scene as if looking out of your own eyes? What about the quality of your image: in three dimensional (3D) form or flat (2D)? Does it have a frame around it or do you experience it as panoramic? Experiment by changing how you represent the experience. Change the location of the picture. If you have it coded as on your right, then move it to your left.

Debriefing The Experience

Did it ever occur to you that you could change your feelings by changing how you internally represent an experience? The strength of NLP lies in these very kinds of processes of the mind. NLP works primarily with mental processes rather than with content. Here you have changed how you feel about an experience by changing the quality and structure of your images, not their content. Thus, you made the changes at the mental process level while leaving the content the same.