Magic in Action (revised)

from Richard Bandler:



     Magic in Action shows the ways in which I use humor and speed to work with clients.  It gives

the layman an idea of what an NLP session should be like.  I constantly joke with clients about 

their problems in order to cure them of seriousness, which is what locks the model down.  You 

get serious, you get stuck. 

 Humor is the fastest way to reverse this process.  As soon as you can laugh about something, 

you can change it.



     The difference between a book and real-life experience cannot be overestimated.  Books are 

sequential, life interactions are not.  But part of developing expertise is breaking complex 

processes into pieces.  If you can become skilled at that, you'll learn and achieve that much more 

when you go for life's performances.  Remember, though, to put the pieces back together into one 

whole.  You don't just use the meta-model or timelines; you're using them all as detection tools, 

not as diagnostic tools.  They tell you where to intervene to help people process information in a 

way that is more useful.



     The techniques used in the client sessions and demonstrations, like the swish pattern or the 

phobia cure, are by now archaic.  These techniques are not what constitute NLP.  There are 

many solutions in every situation; if the only way way you can get results is by a formatted fix, 

you are not a Neuro-Linguistic Programmer, you are a therapist with some NLP techniques.



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