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Thank you very much for the links and ideas.

I'm also interested in Rex Sikes stuff including "Mind Design", it seems affirmations are not as effective as asking yourself the best questions. I've considered making a subliminal CD full of "puzzling questions" for my brain to go on the hunt for answers. Questions like "How can I create the bliss I desire right now?" and "How can I plan for the future?" and "What do I really want?" If subliminal affirmations don't really work, why not try subliminal questions, or a CD packed with double induction questions. By the time the CD is finished one's mind will be working at all the "puzzles" given to it, creating the solutions right up front.

Anyway I got carried away there a bit, but I do hope I will find good and better reasons to use NLP, and that will justify my desire to invest in a pricy program.

My understanding so far of NLP, correct me if I'm wrong, is it's a set of tricks and tools used to access your mind's resources, to give you the results you want, in very short a time, and very elegantly. Part of the problem with me is that when I try to do, what I think is called a "pattern" on myself, reading and visualizing at the same time for me, is very difficult. I don't know if it's my impatience with it that's the problem or my lack of concentration, but following a script and doing the exercise at the same time feels impossible.

Are there such patterns that you can just read, and don't have to do eye-movements, which I find very irritating, because then you have to read the script out the corner of your eye . Or how do you do it?

I would like to use NLP to become more "whole" and to, if it's possible, to program my mind with Edward de Bono's thinking skills so that my mind automatically follows the process of each thinking skill when I'm faced with a situation that needs it. How do you suggest I do this with NLP? I feel alot of Edward de Bono's stuff is excellent. I know his thinking skills are supposed to be more conscious work, but if only I could automatically draw upon the richness of it, when I need to, it would be great.

I don't know if a NLP Practitioner course, is where I want to go yet, but Mike I will consider it for the future.

I should invest in more books as well, the only book by Bandler I have is "Reframing", found out later that I should have got "Frogs into Princes" instead, I'm hoping to pick it up at a 2nd hand booksale soon.

I've yet to find a use for persuasion, I'm not a manager, I don't sell, and I don't really want to twist somebody's arm. What do you guys use Persuasion Engineering" for?

Another question I have is how do you find good models, people to model for certain traits and behaviours? Or is it best to just imagine being like this or that?

Thanks for your help guys.
Grant

[This message has been edited by Grant (edited June 03, 2002).]