Ali Campbell - NLP: How to Use Neuro-Linguistic Programming to Change Your Life

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Dedicated to everyone who has sought and hoped for change in themselves and others. Everything comes from nothing more than the thought of what might be possible. Its a simple spark of magic that starts from within, but it can change the world.

There are a great many people who make a book possible. Some youd expect and many more, too many to name, who in their own way add a word, an idea, spark a thought or lend a hand. Thank you to all my students and clients over the years who have taught me as much as I have taught them, and to all who have touched my life in a positive way over the course of this project. But there are very special thanks due to a few, without whom this book wouldnt have been possible.

Dr Richard Bandler for his lifes work that is NLP and for making fast, effective change accessible to all.

John Grinder also for his part in the creation of a field that has changed my own life and the lives of thousands.

Paul McKenna for all my early learnings and for igniting the spark in me all those years ago in London.

Michael Neill who really helped me to get it and to try again if I didnt. I dont know lets find out is what Ive spent ten years doing to great effect.

A great big heartfelt thank you to everyone at Hay House but particularly Michelle Pilley, Jo Burgess, Julie Oughton, Carolyn Thorne and Amy Kiberd for all your love and support of me personally and for all the work you do shining light in our world.

Thank you also to my amazing editor Sandy Draper for making sense of it all, again!

And finally thank you to my wife Claire for all your love and support, not to mention all the cups of tea and cuddles. Love you with all my heart, forever and for keeps.

So what is NLP and why should you take the time to read the whole of this book and allow it to change the way you experience yourself and the world around you?

Let me be very upfront and say that I am not one of those this book will change your life; youve been doing it all wrong guys. Im sure, just like me, you have been doing your best too. Different circumstances and different choices for sure, but when it comes down to it, weve been doing our best given our circumstances, experiences and the available choices we perceived at the time. We look at the world around us and pick the best path we can imagine to get through it and, at the same time, try to collect some of what we want along the way, right?

I certainly did. Long before I had ever heard of NLP like most people, I suspect I viewed the world as being a more or less static place where things were as they were and change well, that was hard and definitely happened only on the outside, out there in the physical world, and usually for other people, not people like me.

Now think about it. It is really quite difficult to change the world around us, isnt it? In the world of form and physics, change can be very hard indeed and takes a great deal of effort, but that, in itself, is not really the problem. The problem is rarely actually found in the physical world but rather in our subjective experience of it. As super coach Michael Neill describes it, Were not scared of what we think were afraid of, were afraid of what we think.

Really, think about it for a second Some people are scared of spiders and some people are not, while others are scared of dogs and cats or flying or even baked beans and ketchup But most of us are not, so those things simply cannot, in and of themselves, be inherently scary. It MUST be our thoughts about those things that create those feelings of anxiety and sometimes even blind panic.

Its as simple as that. We dont need to change the world when we can effortlessly change the way we perceive the world out there, and in doing so change our world instantly. Whilst change in the world of form and physics takes time and effort, in the world of thought and mind we are only ever one different thought away from being OK.

All human behaviour is a product of the state of mind we are in at the time. The difference between being in a right state and the right state is right there between your ears right now. Over the course of this book, I am going to show you how to make the small changes on the inside that will make huge differences on the outside, because when you change your mind you change your life.

Imagine tomorrow, not feeling afraid, not blocked by irrational fears from doing the things you want, not craving foods that dont serve you but only feed an emotional hunger, not feeling stuck or frustrated and instead just feeling free to be you, the authentic you, and free not just being you but free by just being you. Imagine as you read this book just how much your life can change when you get out of your own way and start to live up to your fullest potential.