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Motivation, purpose and rehearsal techniques are all part of our
Newcastle NLP Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner training. We
differentiate our Newcastle NLP trainings by having a strong emphasis
on real world applications. Next Training begins September 08.

What A Belter!

Last night I was treated to one of the best tennis matches I have ever seen.
Andy Murray Vs Richard Gasquet, it went the full five sets and was non-stop action and emotion for players and spectators alike.

The first set was really neck and neck and it went to Gasquet. The second set Murray was outplayed; repeatedly attempting failing drop shots and audible self talk. 2-0 Gasquet.

The third set looked like going to Gasquet but he failed to serve out the match and this was the beginning of the Murray revival and the fall of Gasquet.

Both of these player have excellent skills, are emotionally involved in their game and train long and hard to be where they are in the rankings. So what happened to Gasquet? What happened to Murray?

In the second set Murray was beating himself up, hitting his head with the racket and engaged in lots of self talk; this evidently did nothing but put him off his game. Conversely Gasquet kept playing his game and winning.

When Murray grittily picked off the third set, his emotional involvement rocketed, his self talk changed to roars of self encouragement, raising him and raising the crowd. Gasquet on the other hand seemed to go inside himself. Making unforced error after unforced error, his game literally fell apart. Murray went on to epically win the next two sets to take the game.

How do players continue to motivate themselves in positive ways? And why will this match be remembered?

How can you motivate yourself positively and how can you keep you motivation focused and on track?

The follow on article - Part 2 will address these matters of practical application and highlight a link between NLP and Tennis Performance.

kind regards
nigel hetherington

Communicating Excellence
Excellence in NLP and Clinical Hypnotherapy

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Practically every person has had some event or events in their life that for one or several reasons has left some emotional scarring or baggage.
NLP Practitioner Training Newcastle upon Tyne
NLP has many tools and processes that are specifically designed to take away the negative emotional charge of past events. The popular name of Change Personal History can describe the class of processes that deal with this.
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As a practising clinical hypnotherapist I fully appreciate the immense power of the unconscious mind and the limitless resources and healing powers it contains.

Those past events that are negatively charged are like fragments singled out in time but what came before and what came after?

Something happens to the memory when the event is extend both forwards and backwards in time. It is no longer the same.

I have created a process called Event Scope and Meaning Repatterning - ESMR which harnesses your unconscious mind to create the right resources to change the memory and level the old painful memory.

Request my occasional newsletter to get your free copy of this effective process and access many other free NLP resources.

nigel hetherington

Communicating Excellence
Excellence in NLP and Clinical Hypnotherapy

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What does The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, Corporal Jones from Dad’s Army, and the slogan from the BBC news web site with the latest petrol pricing crisis have in common?

the words DONT PANIC

Language is processed unconsciously, so, not surprisingly, the effect of the words dont panic is much more like PANIC!

Perhaps the next helpful headline attention grabber ’slogan’ could be SAY NO TO CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE OVER ROCKETING FOOD AND PETROL PRICES, DONT WORRY, DONT PANIC, IT WONT BE BAD’ - Arraghhhhhhhh!!!!!

its the same kind of effect as the now proverbial dont think of a blue elephant. What do you do, you think of a blue elephant. Brilliant!

The use of negative commands almost always has the undesired effect ( unless you are using them deliberately ), Like DO NOT FEEL GOOD NOW.

Anyway, if you look at one of mayor Boris Johnson’s initiatives you can see immediately the effect positive language can have.

no happy not negating then!

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As a therapist do you ever feel stuck?

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Do some of your clients seem to be permanently stuck?

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How do they keep ending up in this predicament?

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Do you ever have to wrestle with intractable issuessuch as depression or addiction?

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Do you get trapped in the quicksand of yourclient’s story?

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Ever think to yourself:

“There must be something I can do to help them but I don’t know what it is.”

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