Well, if we can get back to the original topic here:
I have found, as another mentioned, that NLP knowledge actually interferes with listening to the paraliminal tapes, because I am too aware of the techniques Paul is using. So I have to de-focus and "play dumb" in order to listen to them uncritically.
Another point is that "mastering" NLP in order to apply it to oneself does NOT work for everyone. I have studied some of the (supposedly) most powerful and rapid NLP change techniques, and have so far had ZERO success applying them to myself. It is as though the whole idea of changing MYSELF sets off some sort of short-circuit, and some part of me ensures that it CANNOT work.
That is why I bought paraliminal tapes in the first place--to get more of the experience of "someone else" facilitating the change process. Guess what--those don't work for me either, if I approach the process with the attitude of "fixing," "reprogramming" or otherwise manipulating or coercing myself to change.
I have long suspected that this attitude/approach was my problem (please read my posts asking for "help w/resistant subconscious") but I only recently had a real breakthrough in this area.
Some element of inner integrity is violated when the approach is that of "correcting" a "faulty" inner self--and that inner element pushes BACK against such arrogant and ignorant attempts at coercion.
I would welcome pertinent comments on this. For those who CAN use conventional motivational strategies (such as goal-setting and other techniques), my opinion is that almost anything will work. For those of us who have a significant degree of psychological reversal (one way of expressing the phenomenon of motivational paradox which occurs in--I believe--a significant percentage of the population), almost NO conventional approach will work--at least until the underlying motivational difficulty is recognized and addressed. [And no--NLP techniques aimed at "reprogramming" my motivational strategy did not work either.]
My hope is that, rather than overlooking those of us who do not respond in a typical fashion, some of the leaders in change technology will make the effort to discover why this is the case--and perhaps come up with new strategies to address this.
