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I saw a video recently.  It was former Navy SEAL commanders talking about motivation as opposed to discipline.  Discipline is when you do something no matter how you feel.  Motivation is when you get pumped up to do something.  I thought that was a nice reframe to talk about.  In other words, I found it a […]

Reframing is the heart of NLP.  Hypnotic suggestion results in reframing.  Anchoring can cause reframing.  6-step reframing is, uhm, reframing.  In the end, people come out of a successful session with a different perspective, or, “frame” about whatever they wanted help for.  That frame can be conscious, unconscious, or both.  Reframing can be particularly useful, when a […]

I was talking to a friend of mine, and she was down on herself. “ I’m a bad person.”,  she said.  She went on to explain to me that she had been thinking thoughts that ran counter to her belief system. “ Thinking something and doing something are separate things.”,  I said.  I told her stories about […]

Read any comment thread on the Internet and you’ll find people who are not open to new information and who are threatened by opinions different than their own.  Well, humans have a tendency to be that way.  That can make it difficult to help someone change.  If you’re a people-helper who makes your living helping people change, or someone who wants to change it’s vital you know about this tendency to stay stuck and what you can do about it. 
Discover more in…Solving Problems & Habits Through State Change

Sometimes people are closed to ideas.  How do you open them up so that ideas can more easily take hold?  Might the answer lie in confusion?  Is too much confusion bad?  Can context be a powerful force in which behaviors people find acceptable?  Are there other solutions?