Recommended NLP and Neuro-Semantic Books
The following books are recommended from our own experience of applying the knowledge and ideas from the books, and witnessing how this information helps others on their personal journeys.
These books all use the cutting edge technology from the cognitive-behavioural science fields of Neuro-Semantics® (NS), Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
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NLP and NEURO-SEMANTIC BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Life
Coaching Diary 2009 by Dina Marais
Life Coaching Diary 2009 is a diary and life coaching handbook in one, for men and women. This A5 ring-bound page-a-day diary with a weekly coaching page throughout the year will assist you setting goals as well as exploring all facets of your life: work, romance, money, stress, etc.
Your Life Coaching Diary 2009 will be your companion as your day-to-day compass of tasks and appointments as well as your guide to give yourself direction and get to know yourself better one week at a time.
Imagine looking back at the end of the year and reflect on how much you have learned or confirmed about yourself or perhaps how much has changed for the better.
The look and feel of the Life Coaching Diary 2009 is subtle.
The diary is printed in gray-scale with the exception of the
weekly coaching page titles printed in orange. This approach
allows the Life Coaching Diary 2009 to be used in any environment
and be suitable to both sexes.
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Figuring
Out People: Reading People Using Meta-Programs
Author(s): Bob G. Bodenhamer; L. Michael Hall
Published: 4/1/2007
Format: Softcover
In this newly reformatted (2006) and updated volume, discover the magic
of Meta-Programs as perceptual lens and the power of figuring out where
others are coming from. Everyday we spend time mind-reading and second-guessing
the people with whom we live, work, associate, negotiate, parent, and
love. We guess at their intentions, motives, future actions, beliefs,
and more.
Figuring Out people takes the reader far beyond mere personality typing to being able to recognize and work with each person’s uniqueness. Each meta-program provides another way in which we differ as well as another way to create meta-rapport for closer relationships and more in depth understanding and appreciation.
Building on the NLP model of personally and meta programmes, this text
focuses not on what people are but how they function.
"Unique... an outstanding contribution to this area which lies at
the heart of NLP." - Wyatt Woodsmall Ph.D.
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In
the zone with South Africa’s sports heroes. How to achieve top performance
in Sport and Life
Author(s): Michael Cooper; Tim Goodenough
Published: 5/1/1997
Format: Softcover
In this title, several South African sports superstars are interviewed
on how they 'get into the zone' - the state of performing at or beyond
their potential. Each interview is followed by a skill that, learnt, practised
and perfected, will allow good athletes to become great, and consistently
perform at their optimum. With their Elite Athlete Development model as
basis, the authors identify and benchmark 13 specific mental skills that
form the foundation for high performance in elite athletes. Athletes are
able to measure themselves, and then identify and target specific skills
to create meaningful interventions where there is the greatest need, and
coaches can assess the current mental conditioning of an athlete and then
measure the improvement.
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Games
Great Lovers Play: Mastering the Game of Love
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 1/1/2004
Format: Softcover
According to the author, games refers to all of the things that we do
when we interact with people. Frames refer to our mental Understandings,
beliefs, values, expectations, and comprise the rules of the game. It's
your mental and emotional frames that determine your thoughts and feelings
of love, about love and loving, and about all of the facets that affect
love. Games Great Lovers Play will expose the old games that don't work
and invites the reader into some new ones that will powerfully enhance
a loving relationship.
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Games
Slim People Play: Winning the Fat and Slim Game
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 7/1/2001
Format: Softcover
Looks at the whole process of our relationship to food (eating), and movement
(exercise) in terms of a Game. This leads to exploring managing weight,
body shape and size in terms of naming of the Game we are playing.
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Hypnotic
Language: Its Structure and Use
Author(s): Bob G. Bodenhamer; John Burton
Published: 1/1/2001
Format: Hardcover
We each shape our own reality. Perceptions and cognitive processes unique
to us determine our individual perspective on the world, and we present
to ourselves what we are programmed to see. But what if we could change
our perceptions and cognitive processes - and consequently our reality?;One
way of achieving this is by harnessing the powers of hypnotic language.
What this work examines are the structures of the hypnotic sentence, and
the very cognitive dimensions that allow hypnotic language to be effective
in changing our minds. Defining the three facets that allow the mind to
be susceptible to Hypnotic Language Patterns, this book puts these insights
into practice in case examples that demonstrate the application and effect
of hypnotic language. Teaching us how to create the most effective hypnotic
scripts, it provides new language patterns that address beliefs, time
orientation, perception, spiritual matters and states of mind, and devises
new hypnotic language applications that emphasize the importance of "gestalt
principles" and "cognitive factors".
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The Structure of Personality: Modelling Personality Using NLP
and Neuro-Semantics
Author(s): Bob G. Bodenhamer; L. Michael Hall; Richard Bolstad
Published: 7/1/2001
Format: Softcover
Personality is not a "thing", it is a process. When we discuss
personality, what we are talking about is a set of behaviours. This work
explores how we pattern experience, guiding us through the cognitive system
of internal representation and examining the contexts in which such patterning
arises.
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The
User's Manual for the Brain: The Complete Manual for Neuro-Linguistic
Programming
Author(s): Bob G. Bodenhamer; L. Michael Hall
Published: 1/1/2001
Format: Hardcover
This work is a comprehensive manual covering the NLP Practitioner course.
Fully revised and updated, it contains late 20th-century developments
in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, particularly with regard to the Meta-States
model and the Meta-model of language. For those embarking on practitioner
training or wishing to study to parctitioner level at home, this book
is a detailed companion. It is written and designed by two of the most
important theorists in NLP today.
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Instant
Relaxation: How to Reduce Stress at Work, at Home
Author(s): Debra Lederer; Michael Hall
Published: 2/1/2001
Format: Softcover
Using quick and effective NLP and yoga-based exercises and techniques,
this text shows how to reduce stress at work and at home. Part one provides
an introduction abd part two presents a seven-day plan that leads to the
core relaxed state. Par tthree explains how these techniques can be applied
to provide a personally tailored relaxation plan.
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Games
Business Experts Play: Winning at the Games of Business
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 7/1/2002
Format: Hardcover
Dan Millman stumbled on a 94-year-old mentor nicknamed Socrates, a powerful,
unpredictable, and elusive character. He taught a way to maximize performance
using a unique blend of Eastern philosophy and Western fitness to cultivate
the true essence of a champion -- the way of the peaceful warrior . Millman's
first-person account of his odyssey into realms of light, darkness, mind,
body, and spirit has since become an international bestseller about the
universal quest for happiness.
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Coaching
Conversations: For Transformational Change
Author(s): Michael Hall; Michelle Duval
Published: 9/1/2005
Format: Softcover
Coaching Conversations is the first coaching book to provide actual transcripts
of coaching conversations that invite a reader into the experience and
provide descriptions about what's going on in the process for easy replication
in numerous contexts. It demystifies the elitism of coaching as both a
movement and as a specialized technology and makes its powerful methodologies
accessible to anyone who wants to use it professionally and personally.
This book offers a quality exploration into a wide variety of coaching
conversations: Outcome, Resource, Matrix, Possibility, Fierce, Narrative,
Time-Line, Neuro-Logical Levels, Hero Journey, Metaphorical, etc. This
gives the professional coach, the new coach, the manager, leader, or individual
a wide variety of choices.
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Meta-Coaching,
Volume 1: For Higher Levels of Success and Transformation
Author(s): Michael Hall; Michelle Duval
Published: 9/1/2005
Format: Softcover
This volume describes the theoretical frameworks for coaching and meta-coaching,
a higher level to a client's performance, states, attitudes, and beliefs.
It explores the foundations of a coaching psychology that is preeminently
cognitive-behavioral in nature and one founded on the principles of the
human potential movement. Sections cover:
- The models and processes of Meta-Coaching
- The first and only non-therapy based Change Model in the field of Coaching
-the Axes of Change model
- How to enhance your skills as a developmental and transformation change
agent
- The power of benchmarking coaching skills to take one's skills to the
next level of expertise
- The transformative influence of meta-questions
- Five models that establish Coaching as cognitive-behavioral based profession
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Dragon
Slaying: Dragons Into Princes
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 8/1/2000
Format: Softcover
This fascinating publication contains the very essence of the Meta-model
of NLP. Discover how to combat, tame or even slay your 'dragons' or negative
states-failure, self-contempt, anxiety - by building up positive states
to counteract them. This is a user-friendly version of the meta-states
model for personal empowerment that was developed by the author.
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Mastering
Blocking and Stuttering: A Cognitive Approach to Achieving Fluency
Author(s): Bob G. Bodenhamer
Published: 3/1/2005
Format: Hardcover
Have you ever wondered why most people who block and stutter do not stammer
every time they speak? Indeed, most people who stammer are consistently
fluent in certain contexts. When by themselves, speaking to a pet or speaking
to a person with whom they are comfortable they speak fluently. This has
been a puzzle for people who stammer and for speech pathologists for many
years. Now the puzzle has finally been solved by this outstanding new
book which details a completely new approach to treating this debilitating
condition. Bob Bodenhamer explains that this phenomenon results from the
thinking (cognition) of the stammerer as he or she associates speaking
with a lot of fear and anxiety about blocking. Most blocking is no more
than a panic attack expressed in the muscles that control breathing and
speaking. This book both explains the structure of blocking and provides
the tools for gaining more fluency.
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Games
for Mastering Fear: How to Play the Game of Life with a Calm Confidence
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 8/1/2001
Format: Softcover
This is a book about developing your own emotional intelligence about
mastering your fears. To achieve that, Michael Hall has made this book
about NLP and Neuro-Semantics. To that extent, this is a book about state
of the art techniques (patterns, processes, "games") for developing
an intelligent, courageous, and informed way for handling fearful objects,
events, people, and ideas.
This book is also about learning the art of accessing the best kind of mind-body states so that your fears can be appropriate, useful, and empowering. Then you can use them to enrich your life and eliminate all those that only put you into a spin.
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Movie Mind: Directing Your Mental Cinemas
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 1/1/2003
Format: Softcover
The real beauty of this title is that it captures the magic of the cinema
and relates it to our everyday thoughts. The author expertly, and simply,
explains that all our emotions, thoughts, skills, and feelings are controlled
by the films that we constantly run through our minds and that, more importantly,
we can take control of these films to empower ourselves to find success
in everything we say, feel, and do.
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Communication Magic: Exploring the Structure and Meaning of Language
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 3/1/2002
Format: Softcover
Michael Hall has revised and expanded his classic book, "The Secrets
Of Magic". This thoroughly updated and restructured work explores
the Meta-model, which lies at the heart of communication excellence in
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Dr Hall demonstrates how your life
can be dramatically enriched by having complete control over how you relate
and interpret what you are communicating to others. In a clear and logical
manner the author examines: how language affects the mind-body system;
how language can perform magic-like feats in the nervous and immune systems;
and how the magic can bless, empower and enable us to take charge of running
our own brains. "After many years it's good to return to the Meta-model
and learn more of its secrets from Michael Hall." - Ian McDermott,
NLP Trainer.
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Secrets of Personal Mastery: Advanced Techniques for Accessing Your Higher
Level
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 2/1/2001
Format: Softcover
What conceptual states do you have and "never leave home without?"
What attitudes do you seem to take everywhere you go? Do you tend to think
optimistically? Do you tend to see the dark side of things? What this
book enables you to do is to access your executive levels and take charge
of your mental-emotional programming. Treating mind as an emergent process
of our entire mind-body-emotion system, this work teaches you that it
is not so much what you are thinking that controls your destiny and experiences,
but how you're thinking - your frames of reference determine your experience
of life. To bring you personal mastery, this publication leads you through
various thought experiments that work upon your "executive"
mind powers. As you partake in these processes you enter into the higher
management of your own mind at all its levels, and that should prepare
you for the ultimate development of excellence - accessing your personal
genius.
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Sub-Modalities
Going Meta: Cinematic Frames for Semantic Magic
Author(s): Bobby G. Bodenhamer; L. Michael Hall
Published: 6/1/2006
Format: Softcover
Sub-Modalities Going Meta is an advanced NLP book that offers a rigorous
re-modeling to highlight the true nature of the cinematic features in
our mental movies that govern our experiences. It shows how they operate
semantically and how to work with these features in truly magical ways
to bring about transformational change. NLP trainers who have read this
book say it will change the face of NLP and bring about a revolution in
NLP technology that will re-spark the original passion for modeling the
structure of experience and the structure of excellence because of the
six new sub-models that are in the book that come directly from the re-modeling
of 'sub-modalities.' Previous edition was entitled "Structure of
Excellence."
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The
Spirit of NLP: The Process, Meaning and Criteria for Mastering NLP
Author(s): L. Michael Hall
Published: 2/1/2001
Format: Softcover
This fully revised edition of The Spirit of NLP represents the core of
a brilliant Richard Bandler master training. It also includes significant
contributions from other master trainers, including Eric Robbie, Wyatt
Woodsmall, Tad James, Christina Hall and the late Will McDonald. Providing
a deeper understanding of the true genius of the co-developer of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming, it includes mastery of the neurology of NLP, and developmental
work associated with sleight of mouth patterns. Systematically tackling
the areas of Programming, Linguistics and Neurology, The Spirit of NLP
is ideal for all those wishing to update and expand their understanding
of the subject, or wanting a fresh and exciting new perspective on NLP.
An outstanding contribution to its field, this book broadens and develops
the existing NLP model, taking it into new and dynamic domains. One of
the most advanced NLP books available.
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Sourcebook
of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology of NLP, 2nd Ed.
Author(s): Barbara Belnap; L. Michael Hall
Published: 12/1/2004
Format: Softcover
In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover
afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new?
A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions
that allow you to guide a client. The newly revised version streamlines
the patterns so that they are even more succinct and offers some new insights
about how the patterns work, that is, the cognitive-behavioral mechanisms
that make the neuro-linguistic and neuro-semantic approach so powerful.
The Sourcebook of Magic arose in 1997 from a desire to collect in one
place the basic or core NLP Patterns. Today it remains an excellent resource
for coaches, therapists, psychologists, trainers, and managers. The book
uniquely sorts and separates the patterns in key categories, those that
deal with Self, Emotions, Languaging, Thinking Patterns, Meaning, and
Strategies. This Sourcebook of Magic also provides guidelines for knowing
what to do when and why. An excellent gift for those interested in the
cognitive-behavioral model called NLP.
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