Jason

One of my clients recently had a breakthrough in his NLP practice. He had experienced several NLP techniques for personal growth, but he thought something was wrong with him because he kept needing to revisit the processes. His expectation? That he should master them in one go. The result? Frustration. The truth is, while one-trial […]

Would you like to know how to help yourself (and your clients) consistently outperform expectations and build a track record of success? If so, mastering the distinction between intentions and commitments is essential. This distinction often comes up at the end of my coaching sessions, when it’s time for the coachee to define their action

If you’d like to live a happier and more fulfilled life, one of the things you’re going to want to learn is to do is intentionally update your belief systems. Ultimately you’re going to want to get good at updating your beliefs quickly and in real time, but one of the things that I find

When something is ‘semantically loaded’ it means that, for a particular individual, it is loaded with ‘meaning’. It is something that is emotionally charged for them. For them it is psychologically significant. Understanding what is ‘semantically loaded’ for someone allows us to get to know them more deeply, learn about what drives them, and gives

If you’re reading this article you are probably wondering what the heck a ‘semantic reaction’ is. In this article I will share a simple and practical definition of a semantic reaction, the technical definition, as well as share some examples of semantic reactions so that you can recognize them in yourself and others. I will

How long does it take to change a belief? While there might be a phase of preparation and reinforcement, the actual moment of belief change typically occurs in a fraction of a second. Did you believe it took longer? Perhaps you just quickly changed that belief. For me the question isn’t about how much time

Language is powerful, and the language pattern I will be talking about today is something that I hear being used counter-productively on nearly a daily basis. My typical response is “Thank God you’re not my hypnotist!” but it’s even worse when the person I am speaking with actually IS a hypnotist! Regardless of whether or

I was recently working with a coaching client and they had a concern regarding a recurring situation that gets them out of control of their emotions.   They were worried that they would never be able to manage their state in that context. “That situation is ‘too much’ for me to ever learn how to

What is the quickest way that you have found to stop unwanted mental-movies from playing when something triggers me? My answer? When that happens to me the first thing I do is I ‘step out’ of the mental-movie. I shift from being IN the movie as an actor to being OUT of the movie as

I had a couple of conversations recently that led me to want to make a video on the distinctions between NLP and psychotherapy. There are a lot of reasons why the two get overlapped, and in this video I wanted to share what the distinctions are. These distinctions are extremely important for three main groups of people1. People