A Story of the Magic

Once upon a time

there arose a Wizard in the land ... a wizard who could just say words and
the burdens of
hearts would be lifted and lives renewed. Virginia was her name. She would
invite people to
sculpture their understandings of their families using other people and she
would utter
statements of wisdom. Then, almost magically people would be free from
struggles of years
duration, free to enter into a transformation of life.
Wen two Modelers in a distant land heard about this Wizard,
and the magic she was creating with her words
they traveled to that land to see if they could capture the formula of the
magic.
And these two Wizard Modelers took with them all of the tools for pattern
detection that they
knew of, pattern detectors of language, mathematics, and information
processing and sought
audience with the Wizard to ask permission to detail out the precise
formulations of her magic.
And when they came into the very presence of the Wizard Virginia,
they stood in awe before her magic . . . wondering if it was what she said,
how she said it, the
ideas within her words of wisdom, her touch as she moved people about,
her sheer physical
size and presence, the love and compassion that abounded so much in her.
And they wondered
. . . really wondered about it all.
Then they heard about another Wizard,
a gru old man who didnt have the presence or size of Virginia, and who
didnt seem to care
for people all that much . . . and yet Fritz could also just say words and
people would perform
thought experiments in their heads . . . and yell at chairs, sit in hot suer
pools and then emerge
liberated from old emotional prisons and freed to become who they truly
were. Richard kind of
thought that his magic was in his gruness. But since they didnt know, they
continued to
wonder.
Finally, they were directed to go to yet another Wizard,
and so they traveled to Phoenix and met the Wizard Milton who then
became their guide into
the strange Land of Trance, where he would use just words to perform
medical and psychiatric

magic . . . yet this Wizard seemed to use words that were wonderfully vague
in the most
precise way. And again, they wondered, really wondered about the structure
of magic.
Eventually the Wizard Modelers sorted out the Structure of Magic
and of the secrets of that magic . . . and began their school, the University
of the Structure of
Magic . . . today this school is known as NLP and Neuro-Semantics. And
with that, the
adventure began.
2012 META-NLP
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"NLP is an attitude,
backed up by a methodology
that leaves behind it a trail of techniques."
Richard Bandler
Welcome to the NLP adventure. This adventure involves discovering how to
truly run your
own brain, and when you can do that, then you can do something thats
truly magical among
humans, you can manage your own states. Imagine that! Wouldnt that be
wonderful?
With this training, you are about to take the rst step in the exploration of
how you have
mapped out your sense of reality . . . and as you do, we will put into your
hands all of the
necessary tools to rene and transform your experience of reality so that it
enhances your life
in ways that will revolutionize your life. A big promise? You bet. And yet that
is part of the
magic and wonder of this new technology that we call NLP and specically
META-NLP.
This exploration will also provide something else. It will richly inform you
about others, i.e.,
how to read them, how to gure them out, how to inuence them, and how
to create rich
relationships with them.
As your trainer(s), it is my (our) privilege to share in your discoveries of
NLP during this
intensive and accelerated format. By now you will have thoroughly
familiarized yourself with
the language of NLP. That is critical for this accelerated format. As you
undoubtedly know,
NLP (like any other eld) has developed a specialized vocabulary (or
jargon). Are you still

wondering why that is necessary? Its necessary to talk precisely and

accurately about the
stu inside the black box. Even today, psychological language for human
subjectivity is still
pretty vague and indenite. In NLP, we have a much more precise way to
talk about the
mental-and-emotional phenomena that we experience.
Your readings should not only have fully acquainted you with the language,
but also introduce
you to a whole range of revolutionary and exciting ideas, models, patterns,
and techniques.
Yet merely reading about NLP will not prepare you or equip you to truly be
masterful at this
eld. At its heart, NLP and Neuro-Semantics is highly experiential. For that
reason, the
focus of this training will be on running the patterns, on getting actual
hands-on practice with
the processes, the models, the techniques, etc. So, in order for you to get
the most from this,
we ask that you adopt as playful, explorative, and curious a state as
possible. This too will
accelerate your learning and mastery.
I have designed this training, in correlation with Bob Bodenhamer, using a
great many of the
Accelerated Learning principles so that every learning leads naturally to the
next and every
skill or model will be builds upon the former experiences. I have also put
this training manual
2012 META-NLP
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together in such a way that there are many presupposed and preframed
installation processes .
. . which you may or may not catch consciously, at least not at rst.
The most unique factor in this training is that you will also learn the MetaStates model. This
is the newest and most revolutionary model to appear in NLP in the past 20
years. As such,
Meta-States will accelerate your learning and enable you to access the
higher levels of your
mind so as to facilitate your understanding and mastery, it will enable you to
see the whole
picture of NLP and recognize the mechanisms that make it work, thats why
we call it METANLP.

NLP is itself a model for succeeding in whatever you do. At the heart of NLP
is a general
pattern for succeeding in anything that you deem important. The formula is
simple, but dont
let it fool you. Theres wisdom incorporated into this process:
1) Know what you want; identify your desired outcome.
2) Take informed action steps toward that outcome.
3) Use your sensory acuity to notice the responses you get from those
actions.
4) Using behavioral exibility, keep adjusting your actions to the feedback.
5) Focus attention on accessing and operating from your best states.
6) Persist until you reach your outcomes.
The foundational texts for this training are the books, The Users Manual for
the Brain and
The Sourcebook of Magic. Bob put the rst text together from his years of
teaching basic
NLP model, skills, and patterns together. I created the second text, which
will give you a
handy sourcebook of 77 of the most basic NLP patterns.