We are the product of our experience. The way we decide to experience things is influenced by the way we interpreted previous experiences. Our ability to give structure to our experience, enables us to change our experience by changing it's structure - but what creates the structure ? The challenge of re-structuring unhelpful memories took NLP into the realms of addressing phobias and traumas. David Grove focused on the power of metaphor to give structure to our experience whereas Richard Bandler created a framework of submodalities and using hypnosis to alter them.

What's interesting about David Grove's work is his insight of the interface that exists between a client's internal and external worlds. A person's mental map mediates perceptions coming from parts of the outside-in and the inside-out. See my Dynamic Change Model. To ensure that the client and not the coach creates the map, the questions asked must be "clean", in the sense that the picturescreated are the client's. The question "What do you want to have happen" does not specify an sensory cue, whereas the question "What do you feel you should do know?" points the mind to kinesthetic thoughts,

Submodalities help us to navigate the deep structure of our experience, but discoveries in the quantum field of physics move us even closer to the metaphysical realm where spirituality meets science. The principles of wholeness and beingness pick up on third generation NLP where the observer can apply the Feldenkrais Method to understand a person's natural abilities to move, think and feel. Also the meta-patterns that link mood to body state are beginning to be understood in ways that give greater credence to the idea of the 'Ontology of the Human Observer' - understanding the complex interelationships that exists between the language, mood and body states that produce our 'Way of Being'.

This approach focuses on how people experience the world, right down to their words, gestures and facial expressions. It helps people change unwanted behaviours, healing emotions and reaching goals. It starts with the client identifying the behaviours, feelings and responses they like least about themselves and using them as the basis for a journey to healing and a renewed sense of oneness and peace. It creates powerful transforming states of consciousness - core states that go beyond the scope of traditional NLP which only seeks to manipulate mental states.
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Emergence appears to be a pattern that underlies most behaviour. The pattern comprises seven stages. It starts with what one already knows – typically self-referenced which is reinforced from another point of view – often other-referenced.
It involves a philosophical or contextual view and a “wobble” - where doubt is expressed as to the original thought, maybe going back to the roots – where the strength of another world view starts to overcome the initial world view. This literally deconstructs or destroys or counters the original view - a new thought form is expressed.
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Gurdjieff's basic teaching is that human life is lived in waking sleep; transcendence of the sleeping state requires a specific inner work, which is practiced in private quiet conditions, and in the midst of life with others. This leads to otherwise inaccessible levels of vitality and awareness.

The Law of Three, lets call it a triad says that there are at any one time 3 forces acting: active force, passive force, and nuetral force. Mostly we think of two forces as, yes and no, ying and yang, though the Tao gives us a glimpse of a triad in the Tao. Third force (context) though present usually is invisible. So lets say you have a situation where pro and con weigh heavily, the third force whether it be your location, music playing, a cafe your at may sway the balance of pro and con. The understanding of his work can only be received by direct contact between teacher and pupil, and by the work of pupils together in organised groups. Under conditions of a special atmosphere of trust that can exist in such a group, people working together learn to face their own inner poverty and confusion. Working in this way, conscience is awakened along with consciousness. Consciousness, Conscience, and Sensation form the tripod upon which an integrated development of human potential must be based.