Episode 098 - The Closest Thing to Magic I’ve Ever Seen...

Co creator of NLP. Dr Richard Bandler and my bad self.

The Thursday Thesis  - 10/05/2018

Sometimes, not very often, you see something you can’t explain; something that stops you in your tracks and makes you go “Huh?!”

I’ve seen a lot of that sort of thing over the years, and some of it I could make sense of; well, most of it anyway.

Some things, though, are just so damned odd and bizarre that reason cannot reconcile the observation with any explanation.

That’s magic, or else it’s something that looks like magic to me.

I saw a great deal of magic last weekend, when I spent two days in London, improving my hypnosis and NLP skills. The trainers were TV hypnotist and change expert Paul McKenna and “The Godfather of NLP” - Dr Richard Bandler.

I stood, slack-jawed and incredulous, unable to debunk what I both saw and experienced.

Today is Thursday, and I’m still processing what I saw at the event and assessing its ramifications: this could take a little time...

I’m working on it.

For now, I’ll just remind myself of - and share with you - a few truths that were demonstrated most forcefully and seemingly magically. Print them out and read them every day, once as you rise, and once again as you retire.

• You and I are not broken and we do not need to be fixed.
  
• We are each all we need, and we are all inextricably woven together.
  
• The great fallacy of psychology is its assumption that knowing how you got messed up will stop it being a problem to you.
  
• We are all born with more capacity to love, think, learn and give than is deemed socially acceptable.
  
• Change takes a moment, not years, and a life can pivot on a careful – or a careless – word. Choose your words with care.
  
• The person with the most flexibility in a situation will control the outcome of it.
  
• In order to receive more we must first empty ourselves.
  
• You will be as happy or as miserable as you decide to be.
  

© Neil Cowmeadow 2018


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