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Teach Yourself NLP (Teach Yourself (McGraw-Hill))

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I am certified in all levels of NLP including as a trainer (by Wyatt Woodsmall, one of the best teachers in the field). I teach a 110 hour course on the Practitioner level. My library of NLP material is quite large. There are many books on the subject. This, which I recently came across, is probably the best introduction for a beginner. It will give you the nuts and bolts, the basic concepts, in a way which will permit you to go in any direction you wish. There are many approaches to NLP out there. This is the most neutral one that I know of.

I have read about 5 NLP books, this is the best one. Goes into good detail and explanation about why techniques work or dont work. When and how to use them. What to expect etc etc. Covers most of the NLP content you would ever want to know. If you just purchased this book and applied the exercises at the end of each chapter, you life would be absolutely amazing, heavenly. I have cant wait to start applying the info. Read it once about to read again and start applying. Great book, highly recommend.
If someone has anything negative to say about this book then it means they have not yet grasped the topic of NLP. Well done Steve.

This is the most concise and straightforward books on NLP. Nothing really new to the science/art. Yet as a person who has studied NLP from other authors for years I never had as quiet a clear understanding of this basic premises until after I read this book. Recommended for both the beginner and the intermediate student of NLP.

I had heard about NLP and that people were able to use it to instantly get rid of phobias, to stop bad habits, and to achieve business success. I bought this book to help me improve some habits at work. And so far it IS helping. I'm on Chapter 10, and so far have reduced my procrastinating significantly (by about 3/4 - meaning, what I used to procrastinate an hour on, I'm not spending more than 15 minutes avoiding now). Also, I have used some NLP processes to overcome my sales fear of "cold calling" - now I actually look forward to it!

If you're looking to change your thinking so that you can change the results you get in life, this book can help. Now you'll have to be willing to change, and have to be willing to do the work. The book provides details of how to do different exercises. But because each person is different, the way the exercise ends up being completed, and the results that each person gets, will vary from person to person.

If you want to explore NLP without having to pay an NLP practitioner for an office visit, this is a great place to start. I'm not knocking NLP practitioners - just saying that this is an economical way to explore NLP before booking the appointment or as an alternative for someone on a budget that will not allow an office/phone appointment.

This book crams many, many details about NLP, but lacks the necessary coherence to understand and apply NLP as a consistent model. As such, it does not measure up to what is normally expected in the "teach yourself" series.

The book "Introducing NLP", by Joseph O'Connor & John Seymour, though more dated, serves as a better and more useful introduction to NLP.

This is a very good book on NLP up to and including the practitioner level. I don't want to say that this is the best book on NLP ever written. Thank would be a Universal Quantifier. Before I read this book, I would have said that Tony Robbins' book "Unlimited Power" was the best NLP book I ever read. The main thing about "Unlimited Power" was that Tony Robbins wrote the book in his own words or his own terms. Then he would explain the under lying NLP principle.

The new edition of "Teach Yourself NLP" covers much of the same material, but, in a straight from the manual form. That is not a bad thing. It explains a long laundry list of NLP patterns. It covers modeling, rapport, rep systems, anchors, strategies, cause and effect, sensory acuity, state, modalities, accessing cues, predicates, values and beliefs, and the presuppositions of NLP. I must say I never read the first edition.

The cover price on this paperback book is $12.95. A pre-study package from one of the NLP training companies is currently on "sale" for $695.00. This book covers each subject in a more in depth manner than the manual in the $695.00 package. This book is well written. It goes into greater detail than the pre-study manual. It is most definitely a lot better bargain.

It is easier to read than "NLP for Dummies". It is the best introduction to NLP I have ever read. Notice (again) I did not say the best NLP book ever written, because, I haven't read them all.

Much of the early training in NLP was done using hastily made Xerox copies. I say Xerox because Xerox had the market for copiers cornered in the 1970's. There really was no manual per se in the beginning. Bandler and Grinder would come up with the week's topic and hurry down to the Xerox machine and run off enough copies so that everyone would have the latest copy in hand (or handed out at the door) during one of their early training classes. This was the main way NLP was taught in the early days (back in the old days). Quite often as their students started teaching NLP, they would just make copies of their copies and use the same material in their classes.

In 1980 Byron Lewis made an attempt to translate the early seminar material into a reasonably well written book about NLP. That book was later reprinted and renamed "Magic of NLP Demystified" in 1990. Teach yourself NLP is clearer and easier to read than that book and others I have read.

Before you plop down $695.00 on a Fastrak pre-study program, give this book a good read. Then if you want to get the formal certification in NLP you can look into one of the traditional NLP Practitioner Training Classes

I found this book to be one of the most comprehensive books on NLP that I have read. It explains all of the key techniques in a very understandable way.

If you use the NLP exercises presented in this book, you can quickly end bad habits, attain great levels of self-confidence, and change your life for the better.

You owe it to yourself to get this book - or ANY book on NLP - and improve your life!

Don't listen to the ignorant people who think that NLP is about using mind-control to take advantage of other people. It's exactly the opposite - it's about taking control of your own mind and learning how to believe in yourself.

This and other books on NLP encourage the reader to adopt unproven mind-altering techniques intended to make the user more charismatic. Please note how many of these snake oil peddlers are also writing books and selling other material online outlining how to seduce women through exploitation, manipulation, and lying. Their message may appeal to immature boys and insecure men, including sex addicts, but they are also putting the rest of us in the position of "target" (to use their language). NLP is more "cult" than science.