[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflections #36

[Dr. Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

August 4, 2008

Meta Reflection #36


CLASSIC NLP

WON'T MAKE YOU WEALTHY

AND HERE'S WHY






If you find my title shocking-good! I wanted it to shock. Why? Because last week in the Wealth Creation Training in Moscow I had several people ask me the question,

"If NLP is so powerful for modeling, for creating success, why are most NLP people not wealthy?"

And one man asked me a more pointed form of that question, 

"How is it that most NLP Trainers who should know about modeling and replicating excellence not rich? How do you explain that?"

That's when I said, 

"That's because 'classic or pure NLP' is inadequate for that kind of modeling. That's why it will not make you wealthy. It has not even made leading NLP trainers around the world wealthy!"

Later I got thinking more about that. "I wonder why that is? What is the reason that traditional NLP has not led to financial success, and hardly business success, for most practitioners?"

So what is the reason for this gap between what the model should be able to do and what most people are able to do with it? Before presenting what I think is the reason, I'll start by first describing what is not the reason.

The reason is not due to the model itself. As a model of communication, of how the sensory-based "languages of the mind" (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.) enable us to communicate to ourselves and induce ourselves into states, NLP has since its beginning always provided a cutting-edge model. And because "meta" is built into the NLP model, NLP can be used facilitate emotional intelligence-self-awareness, self-monitoring, self-control, and self-discipline. It can be used for that. Not everyone in NLP so uses it, but it can be used for such. Several years ago 

Denis Bridoux and Patrick Merlevede, wrote Seven Steps to Emotional Intelligence -essentially a book on the basic NLP model and how to use it for E.Q.

Further, the NLP model of how we communicate within ourselves and with each other to map our sense of reality is a tremendous tool for modeling. And it can be used even to model the creation of wealth. Of course, the only person who I know who has even partially done that is Anthony Robbins. You'll find bits and pieces of that in his two NLP books. But his own personal wealth is not from that, it is from his own genius in marketing and as an incredible high energy entertainer.

The real reason classic or pure NLP will not make you wealthy is due to a virus. If you used the model for communicating, getting rapport, understanding others, looking for needs to solve, getting into rich states of seeing how to contribute and add value, modeling some "business smarts"-if you did that with the NLP model, you could become wealthy. 

The problem doesn't lie there. The problem lies in some of the thought viruses that have been inside NLP from the beginning and with which many in the field of NLP are afflicted. I'm now speaking about the thought viruses of scarcity, competition, non-cooperation, non-collaboration, and non-celebration and acknowledgement of others. In a word, I'm speaking about the poison that's still contaminating NLP people-the poison of ego, insecurity, fear and fearfulness, paranoia, and the lack of abundance. And it is this poison, these thought viruses that have prevented Bandler and Grinder from getting along and have led to the problem that seems to plague so many fields-petty competition and fearful scarcity.

The poisonous thought of scarcity leads to fear that there's not enough for all, competition with others who want to get a bigger share of the pie, paranoia that they are out to get you, and insecurity that if you don't jump in and grab yours, they will undermine your success. It is the belief in scarcity that leads to the fear of sharing information, the refusal to recommend others, trying to get any and every client or customer you can, putting others down to build yourself up, plagerizing the works and ideas of others, and a general refusal to collaborate.

This scarcity thought virus arises from the assumption that "there is only so much" and when it's gone, there won't be anymore. It does not recognize that in there's such a thing as abundance and that abundance as a mechanism creates an entirely different dynamic. 

People who understand the mechanism of abundance recognizes that with intangible things, the more you give, the more you have, and the more you are able to have. The more you give love, the more love you have and the greater your capacity for love. The more you share information, knowledge, and insights-the more you strengthen your knowledge, expand your ability to learn, and open yourself up to receive more. So with care, compassion, connection, commitment, proactivity, resilience, etc.

This even works with tangible things. After all, just look at the history of money on this planet. Each year there is more money than ever before. Each year the stock markets reach new heights of the wealth for nations and peoples. Where does all this new money come from? How can creating new products and services, new things that add value and quality to human life, spending and giving of money make more money come into existence? In fact, recently there's been too much of this as speculators in oil have been passing papers back and forth and thereby increasing the cost of oil.

It is the creativity (and innovation) factor that allows abundance to keep adding more and more to our lives. We keep creating new things. We create new ideas, new dreams, new possibilities, and then we get busy innovating new things. And the more we create, the more we are able to create!

Fear feeds and poisons us with the idea of scarcity. Fear that there wont' be enough. Fear that we will run out of resources. Abundance makes us believe in greater creativity, increased valued, and that if we have to share a pie -we can invent larger and more pies!

If classic or pure NLP is fear-driven, ego-centric, and governed by scarcity, then isn't it time to move beyond that and adopt a more abundant attitude and belief so that it unleashes your wealth potentials? Would you like that? Are you ready for that? Adopting abundance as a belief and lifestyle means cooperating and collaborating with others and giving and contributing your best. Yes, it is paradoxical. Yet it is in giving that you become more abundant because you will be creating wealth. And the value that you create which enriches the lives of others will come back to make you wealthy.

To the unleashing of your greatest wealth potentials!






L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
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