Excerpt from: When the Horse Dies, Get Off... and Stop Dragging It Around! ISBN: 0-9688064-1-4 How we define something determines what we do with it. If we define it as 'good', we'll want to draw it to us and push it away if we define it as 'bad'. What allows us to come to these conclusions is an underlying framework, often invisible to us, ... Continue Reading >>
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NLP: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Part 1Introduction:NLP has come a long way. Over the last 30 years, who could estimate how many have been touched - intentionally or otherwise - by this incredible discovery of the structure of human behavior. And yet, despite these amazing contributions, there are nonetheless those for whom NLP has not been enough. There are many who have studied and ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems®: The New Paradigm for NLP
The following article does not offer tips and techniques. It extends an invitation to you to direct your attention to much higher levels of thinking when considering the potential of NLP as a body of knowledge. It is not intended to give you answers but entice you to raise questions that you may never have considered before. It is intended to press up ... Continue Reading >>
Losing Faith in Organized Religion
Once again, allegations of institutionalized child abuse perpetrated by the clergy of the Catholic Church filled the news. This time, Europe was awakening to what we for all too long have not wanted to see or hear or know as a truth in our own experiences: we are a species that cannibalizes our young. I’ve written about this in many other times and ... Continue Reading >>
Living Life with an Edge
It is our edges that define us. Without edges, we would not be recognizable as different or distinct from our environments. Without edges, we would blend in to our surroundings ... disappear ... become part of something else and no longer be who we are. It is the edges of things ... a picture, an apple, a car ... that allow things to be separate, ... Continue Reading >>
Letting Go
As I sit in my friend Cathy's amazing, abundant garden, I am unable toescape the power that all living things innately carry to grow and expand. Withoutconstant vigilance, this garden would soon overtake the constraints of its boundaries andcause the stones and the walkways to disappear...swallowed up by the space that lifetakes for itself and the ... Continue Reading >>
Living Large in an Increasingly Smaller World
You likely have already noticed. The world you and I share is not in such good shape these days. The list of challenges, problems and frighteningly compelling global issues is growing and seems not to be affected much by our hopes that it will change or our desire to have it somehow be resolved by someone else. Long gone are the days when we can rely on ... Continue Reading >>