Using Your Brain--For a Change

This is the first NLP book read when I got into the NLPtrench. Now I realise how great and magnificant this book is. This book is a pleasure just to read by itself. Although from reading it you will gain specific tools to change your percieved reality (what you feel/think/believe) by using techniques in this book! In order to really fuse with it you need to use the techniqes when you want to change something. In other words it is not something you can read once and then just forget about and espect a drastic change. You can achieve drastic change if you do the exercices once. However many thoughts and ways of acting are habits you will repeat over and over, and this book will make you be able to take control of these habitual things so that you can change them. This will give you control of your reality. If you do the simple techniqes in this book and use them as if they are the most important things you can ever practise, you will transform your way of behaving totally! I highly recommend it!

My title may seem a bit surprising consdering the fact that NLP is all about tapping into your subconscious mind; however, Bandler hits home (and hits a home run) in not only stating various truths about how we think on a day-to-day basis, but in also providing the technology to "train your brain" to provide the results and the life you desire. At the time of this review, I haven't worked on the recommended practices enough to qualify them (or to qualify myself, yet, for that matter), but I can say that I am extremely optimistic!!!I have read numerous (again: numerous) self-help books that deal primarily/only with our conscious level of thinking, and having read Bandler, I now firmly believe that most (not all - most) self-help books that address the conscious level are worth next to nothing until one has addressed their subconscious. I was told, only today - by an NLP practitioner I have been seeing - that Bandler was once quoted as saying that "the conscious mind is the office boy; the subconscious is the CEO."Bottom line? Buy it, highlight it to the max, and keep it handy as a reference guide. Most importantly (as I plan to do) - apply the matierial within! Good luck.......

Starting with the deliberately ambiguous title, what you get in this book is pure Bandler. Not surprising, really, since the text is an edited version of several seminars Bandler conducted in 1982.It seems to me that you can treat the book as an educational exercise, or as an interactive experience. Indeed, the editing is so effective that I could imagine myself strolling through town letting Bandler show me the world through his eyes, listen to it with his ears, and so on. And a mightily enjoyable experience it was.At the surface level the book covers topics such as submodalities, learning, the "swish" pattern, etc. - keeping in mind how much of our experience is objective, and how much is subjective. Better yet, having pointed out that the majority of our experience subjective - it goes on to explain how we can radically change our lives for the better by "reprogramming" the bits we don't like.Personally I found this to be an excellent book on the subject, with plenty of amusing and relevant cartoons by Gustav Russ Youngreen, and practical exercises and demonstrations throughout.With regard to the difficulties mentioned by other reviewers, I would say that there are plenty of guys doing what Abby describes who wouldn't know NLP from a hole in the ground. It is also worth pointing out that NLP is, after all, just another tool. And like any other tool, *some* people are bound to misuse it. As for whether you can become proficient in NLP just by attending one or two trainings and reading some books, I agree - you can't. And if you tell yourself that you don't understand, then you won't (that, too, is "reprogramming"!)Like any other subject, you will only "learn" NLP when you "do" it. So anyone who thinks that reading this book, or any other, will make them into a master communicator overnight would probably be better off saving their money.For readers who take the book in the spirit in which it was written, on the other hand, I'd guess you may find this a very enjoyable and beneficial addition to your bookshelf.

This is Richard Bandler at his best! A transcript of one of his seminar. He speaks with humour, style, and shows you how intelligent he can be in curing phobias in 3 minutes! This book is divided into chapters as Bandler explains different topics. You will see how he reframes almost every experience and situation to change people's views. How he ask questions to get information out of people quickly. Also, he can be very funny, poking fun at psychologists and explain why they do more harm than good, and why NLP is so effective. Learned lots of NLP skills which are very effective, like the Swish etc.

Richard Bandler, known for his development of Neuro Lingustic Programming with fellow partner John Grinder, has stepped alone to write this wonderfully self theraputic style book, from his uses and experiences in NLP and hypnosis training from master Milton Erickson. There is nothing your brain cannot accomplish, and Bandler provides the steps to take you to levels of brain development that you have not begun to think about...yet. In Using Your Barin for a Change, you are now in control of what you think, and how you think of life, concentrating all of your past miseries into one moment and then having it disappear to refocus your energy into the moment which we call the 'now'. A powerful book for anyone looking to change the way they see reality