Upon seeing someone you work with do something inexplicable have you ever had the thought, “I think that person must be broken somehow. Otherwise, how could they be like they are?”
My friend likes to remind her husband, “I know you don’t agree but really, I mean really, I am not a broken you that needs to be fixed.”
A real conversation I overheard between two business associates reminding me of this...
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We have all met people with charisma. A warm smile, that intense look, feelings like there is something extraordinary when you are around them.
Real charisma is a way of "being," not a way of acting. We are each more than the sum of our behaviors. The charismatic phenomena comes from being genuinely who you are at a deeper level while in a connected relationship with another individual. The deep significance of that understanding is what we help people realize in our Authentic Public Speaking class.
Read on to learn more about charisma, why you might want to learn it, charisma basics, and an introduction about how to be charismatic.
Embedded Commands are a way of using your non-verbal communication to influence people's thoughts, feelings and behaviors. This tool delivers a second message at a different level simultaneously to whatever you are literally saying with your words. In NLP we often do this to communicate directly with a person’s unconscious mind. By marking out a simple message within the structure of another message it is possible to communicate subliminally and get responses without the other person being consciously aware of what you are doing.
Google’s special search page for Jan 20, 2011 celebrating the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy’s inaugural address uses words from his speech to draw the Google logo. In that collection of words some are larger and
I wrote this article several years ago (1996) for Austin NLP, the Neuro-Linguistic social and learning club for Central Texas. It is simple, but it is still a very useful NLP tool to learn. So with the NLP Practitioner Course coming up, I wanted to share it with the new people who might be interested in learning NLP tools, techniques, and skills. It works like a charm and people will think you are a wizard when you help them painlessly and fearlessly get rid of their hiccups. Enjoy!
~ Keith
Kelsey, a 19 year old, UT Student had been hiccupping all morning. It was ruining her Saturday outing with her friends to Austin’s new Blanton Museum. Not that the hiccups were so painful, they were relatively mild so she was putting up with them. But they were beginning to be chronic and several hours of continuous convulsing was beginning to make her muscles ache.
She had tried all the regular remedies, holding her breath, swallowing a glass of water with her head between her knees. Her friends had tried to frighten her when she wasn’t expecting it. She had even tried eating a spoon each of sugar and peanut butter, but nothing seemed to work. She just kept hiccupping. And it was getting rather annoying and she seemed to be out of options and resigned to live with it until it went away.
I noticed her hiccuping plight. As a stranger (there are few people stranger than an NLPer on a mission) … as a stranger, I would have to be quick with rapport and in defining her outcome. I jokingly asked if she had been suffering long? “Do you want them to go away?”