The Brain Language Podcast

Send us Fan Mail How can NLP address motivation?  Motivation is the desire or willingness to do something. A major complaint of many clients is that they aren’t motivated.  The Keys to getting yourself to do something can be addressed in a system using the model of NLP.  These include 1.     Submodalities – compelling future; contrastive analysis 2.     Meta programs 3.     Beliefs 4.     Values 5...

Send us Fan Mail Safe to say most human problems stem from other humans. Lately, I’ve been coaching a number of people who are starting relationships or are reaching a place where it is obvious that something has to change.  Here is a short list of relationship characteristics that I think need to be there for a lasting bond.  1.     Do I feel safe? Does my partner feel safe?  Are you a safe perso...

Send us Fan Mail  NLP contains many powerful concepts and techniques that can be transformative on their own, but when utilized as an entire system, NLP can make change almost effortless and sustainable. When we try to change something about ourselves or our actions simply through willpower, we often find it difficult to create and maintain motivation, develop and follow a successful strategy, ove...

Send us Fan Mail This is a real treat! Stan B. Walters is our guest on this episode. Stan is known as “The Lie Guy®” and has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, NBC, France Channel One, and Australia Today.  He was the host / technical adviser on National Geographic's “The Science of Interrogation.” He is a Certified Speaking Professional by the National Speakers Association. He has authored...

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we have so much to do that the more we 'try' to get done, the less we actually do. We stop planning and jump from crisis to crisis, putting out fires, and never seem to accomplish anything. The feeling of overwhelm sets in and if left to itself will insure that the system will go into chaos. It is a very stressful place to be. You never seem to get ahead. Life...

Send us Fan Mail This is a 10-minute "short" on the possible reason some people snack unconsciously while stressing, concentrating, or creating something new.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Watching my favorite genre of TV series, the detective show, I am reminded about the importance of evidence.  The seasoned detective uses a lot of intuition because they have seen it all before and they develop tacit knowledge of criminal patterns that play over and over again.  But when it comes to charging and convicting a criminal for a crime, evidence is the name of the game. ...

Send us Fan Mail Although the end-of-year holidays have passed, it is always a good reminder the review how the NLP Presuppositions can make interactions with others easier. Presuppositions, in general, act as guiding principles that are assumed as true for any model.  NLP, Neuro-Linguistics Programming is no exception.  To understand and engage the model of NLP, those 22 or so presuppositions mus...

Send us Fan Mail Episode addresses: 1.     What is difficult about making changes  2.     How are beliefs important to making changes  3.     What are some of the important tools for facilitating a change?    Verbal affirmations,  Mentors,  Systems, Timeline,  Beliefs to support  4.     What is the timeline installation belief procedure and how does it work? When we have a desired outcome or goal,...

Send us Fan Mail James and I talk about how he using his NLP skills in his new business. He uses many more than three things, but here are his top three;  Told from his point of view! 1. Rapport skills I am intensely dialed into whom I am speaking with in my driver roster and configure my interactions with them to match and pace the conversation. When addressing groups I am careful to cover all mo...

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Send us Fan Mail Kinesthetic anchoring, reframing, and conflict resolution are some of the NLP processes people can use for mental and emotional changes. There are many more but these are processes that people can learn how to use themselves and are simple change techniques.   It is most important to develop a wellformed outcome before using any process to resolve an issue.   An outcome is necessa...

Send us Fan Mail This is an inspirational story of a  Master Practitioner of NLP who used NLP processes while undergoing cancer treatments. He mentions some of the processes in NLP he used, such as the Outcome Frame (sensory-based), anchoring, submodalities (pain management), the structure of questions, presuppositions, and beliefs (his and others). Other topics include  1.     Beliefs and the Ban...

Send us Fan Mail Julie Thurburn, as guest host, and Susan Stageman discuss visual rapport -- What are you wearing for the conversation you want to have? Julie is a Certified Image Consultant.  In a slightly different format, they talk about rapport from a different angle: how our appearance can make or break rapport from the outside to the internal feelings we have. After Julie discusses why she g...

Send us Fan Mail The Score is an approach to solving problems and getting outcomes developed by Robert Dilts and Todd Epstein in 1987 to describe the process they were intuitively using to define problems and design interventions.  They realized through teaching a series of seminars that they were systemically organizing the way they approach a problem differently than the advanced NLP students. T...

Send us Fan Mail Many parents ask me about NLP training or help with their child’s self-esteem. This episode includes The important stages of Childhood development  Sense of self around age 2 The approach a parent should take if they think a child would benefit from NLP Teaching the child the NLP presuppositions and helping them apply them to life situations will help them understand how to deal w...

Send us Fan Mail Decision-making is a complex process – some processes are more complex than others. How you arrive at a decision is a process of taking in information both externally and internally and then taking action.  To double down is to take a further risk in a situation or passionately re-commit one's efforts to a cause or course of action. Summary Decision-making is a complex proces...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we talk about Permissive or Indirect Language or The Milton Model. Indirect language or permissive language it is called sometimes is vaguely worded communication designed to bypass the conscious mind and speak to the unconscious. Phrases of permissive language or the Milton Model are often used to soften communication. Instead of using direct, authoritarian langu...

Send us Fan Mail Guest host, Brad Costanzo, and Susan Stageman talk about the Disney Strategy. The brilliance of Disney comes out in this strategy he used to build an entertainment empire during the depression. We talk about what it is, how to use it. Your inner critic has a job to do. Give it the right job.  When you organize your planning around the Dream, the Plan, and the Critic, your goals ar...

Send us Fan Mail Susan and Guest Host, James Lusk, explore the Meta Model, Process-Oriented Questions. What is the Meta Model? We review the Meta Model and its categories: deletions, generalizations, and distortions.  How do the language patterns of the Meta Model relate to our mental maps? Finally, James talks about some of his outstanding applications of the Meta Model and its importance in comm...

Send us Fan Mail Many people think they know what they want but haven’t taken the time to discover what they are asking for.  It is easy to say, I want to be a great leader or business person or salesperson or wife, husband, chef, manager, etc. but do not have criteria or even what values or beliefs or behaviors a leader, etc. would have or what they would demonstrate to be a good leader, etc. Her...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 of Sleight of Mouth Patterns is Episode #51. In episode # 51 we did SOM patterns REDEFINE, COUNTER EXAMPLE, HIERARCHY OF CRITERIA, AND INTENTION. In this episode we are going to try to finish the patterns. CHUNK DOWN, CHUNK UP,  APPLY TO SELF, REALITY STRATEGY, MODEL OF THE WORLD, ANOTHER OUTCOME, CHANGE FRAME SIZE   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Time is an elusive concept. Yes, Time is a concept. It doesn't exist the way we think it does. We can keep track of time on a clock. Because of that people tend to quantify time, having too much time on their hands or too little time. We have dozens of linguistic metaphors around time, i.e. Time flies or Time is money or you are running out of time or he is living on borrowed...

Send us Fan Mail In 1980, Robert Dilts modeled the patterns of such esteemed communicators as Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Milton Erickson, Plato, and Socrates (to name a few.)  These individuals were superb at influencing belief systems and effectively persuading with these quick verbal reframes. Dilts called these language patterns Sleight of Mouth, named after sleight of hand from artful and crafty...

Send us Fan Mail  Forgiveness is an often misunderstood concept. You can use NLP to help yourself truly let go of things that you cannot change.   In the first segment, we talk about what is misunderstood about forgiveness. People oftentimes think that forgiving someone for what they did is condoning it. It is not. Learn what the difference is between condoning and letting go of our expectations....