Yes, NLP really does work and is very powerful!
I went to college to make a career change. My advisers and teachers were very supportive and I took their advice and encouragement to heart. I studied hard so I could hit the ground running after graduation. One of my instructors was involved with LSC and soon I was taking classes there as well and listening to the Paraliminal tapes. In time, I was doing volunteer work at a chronic pain clinic. Wow, I thought after doing my first class, this stuff really works! I was encouraged by the results as the patients were now letting go of their pain and moving on with their lives. For the next two years I was voted to be the MC at their annual banquet. I was also doing volunteer work in other areas. I was now doing something that I really enjoyed, and surely the money would follow.
Fast forward two years. The suggestion and visions of a career change were strongly embedded in my mind along with the belief that I had the power to make it happen. So strong, in fact, that I was not willing to return to my old career in the construction industry. But now my new house was gone and I had become a homeless person and would be living on the streets for next year. Although the vision of doing the work I really enjoyed was still with me, I was now into survival mode. I finally got a job in a manufacturing company. The pay was low, but I was off the streets and once again started doing volunteer work, reading everything I could find on NLP while hoping that I could get a higher position within the company because of my education. I also returned to school and became a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist. The company, however, moved to Mexico. I had now been struggling with my career change for over four years. My volunteer work was much in demand and a great many people had benefited from my programs, but I had yet not made one penny of income from it. After the company moved to Mexico, I continued, for the next four months, to do volunteer work and to look for a job. Finally, I realized that there were many parts of the formula for success that my advisers and others either did not know or were completely ignorant of. I also realized that many details were not included in the success stories I had read. However, they were telling me all the things I wanted to hear. After years of trying, it was now evident my dream was not going to happen and if I was going to have any kind of life, I needed to return to the construction industry. My financial losses had been great over the last four plus years and I hired on with companies that were working a lot of overtime. I was working 68 hours a week and at times I was working 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Yes, I was now getting burned out over and over again. While not doing work that I really enjoyed, the money was now following and I once again had a life. Visions of doing the work that I really enjoyed stayed with me, but I no longer had the energy to pursue them. Between jobs I would enjoy life as best I could while recovering (partial) from burn out. Today I am retired, and live a quiet and peaceful life while wondering if dreams are just an allusion.
