What People are saying about this book:
"A readable, practical, and entertaining book about a challenging, original, and promising new discipline. I recommend it."—Dan Goleman, Associate Editor of Psychology Today.
"NLP represents a huge quantum jump in our understanding of human behavior and communication. It makes most current therapy and education totally obsolete."—John O. Stevens, author of Awareness and editor of Gestalt Therapy Verbatim and Gestalt is.
"This book shows you how to do a little magic and change the way you see, hear, feel, and imagine the world you live in. It presents new therapeutic techniques which can teach you some surprising things about yourself."—Sam Keen, Consulting Editor of Psychology Today and author of Beginnings Without End, To a Dancing God, and Apology for Wonder.
"How tiresome it is going from one limiting belief to another. How joyful to read Bandler and Grinder, who don't believe anything, yet use everything! NLP wears seven-league-boots, and takes 'therapy' or 'personal growth' far, far beyond any previous notions."—Barry Stevens, author of Don't Push the River, and co-author of Person to Person.
"Fritz Peris regarded John Stevens' Gestalt Therapy Verbatim as the best representation of his work in print. Grinder and Bandler have good reason to have the same regard for Frogs into Princes. Once again, it's the closest thing to actually being in the workshop."— Richard Price, Co-founder and director of Esalen Institute.
frogs into PRINCES
Neuro Linguistic Programming
by
Richard Sandier
and John Grinder
edited by
Steve ftndreas
(formerly John O. Stevens)
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ISBN: 0-911226-18-4 clothbound $11.00 ISBN: 0-911226-19-2 paperbound $7.50
Cover Artwork by Elizabeth Malczynski, Brooklyn, NY Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data:
Sandier, Richard. Frogs into princes.
"Edited entirely from audiotapes of introductory
NLP training workshops conducted by Richard Bandler
and John Grinder."
Bibliography: p.
1. Psychotherapy. 2. Nonverbal communication.3. Psycholinguistics. 4. Imagery (Psychology)I. Grinder, John, joint author. II. Title.RC480.5.B313 616.8'914 , 79-13255ISBN 0-911226-18-4 ,;'.'ISBN 0-911226-19-2
Other books about Neuro-Linguistic Programming from Real People Press:
USING YOUR BRAIN-FORA CHANGE, by Richard Bandler. 159pp. 1985 Cloth $11.00 Paper $7.50
REFRAMING: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning, by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. 220 pp. 1981 Cloth $12.00 Paper $8.50
TRANCE-FORMATIONS: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Structure of Hypnosis, by John Grinder and Richard Bandler. 250 pp. 1981 Cloth $12.00 Paper $8.50
CHANGE YOUR MIND—AND KEEP THE CHANGE, by Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas. 187 pp. 1987 Cloth $12.00 Paper $8.50
The name Real People Press indicates our purpose; to publish ideas and ways that a person can use independently or with others to become more real—lo further your own growth as a human being and to develop your relationship and communication with others.
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Contents
Foreword by Steve Andreas (formerly John O. Stevens) i-ivA Challenge to the Reader
I Sensory Experience: 5-78Representational Systems and Accessing Cues
II Changing Personal History and Organization: 79-136Anchoring
III Finding New Ways: 137-193Refraining
Bibliography 194
Foreword
I have been studying education, therapies, growth experiences, and other methods for personal change since I was a graduate student with Abe Maslow over twenty years ago. Ten years later I met Fritz Peris and immersed myself in gestalt therapy because it seemed to be more effective than most other methods. Actually all methods work for some people and with some problems. Most methods claim much more than they can deliver, and most theories have little relationship to the methods they describe.
When I was first introduced to Neuro Linguistic Programming I was both fascinated and very skeptical. I had been heavily conditioned to believe that change is slow, and usually difficult and painful. I still have some difficulty realizing that I can usually cure a phobia or other similar long-term problem painlessly in less than an hour—even though I have done it repeatedly and seen that the results last. Everything written in this book is explicit, and can be verified quickly m your own experience. There is no hocus-pocus, and you will not be asked to take on any new beliefs. You will only be asked to suspend your own beliefs long enough to test the concepts and procedures of NLP in your own sensory experience. That won't take long; most of the statements and patterns in this book can be tested in a few minutes or a few hours. If you are skeptical, as I was, you owe it to your skepticism to check this out, and find out if the outrageous claims made in this book are valid.
NLP is an explicit and powerful model of human experience and
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communication. Using the principles of NLP it is possible to describe any human activity in a detailed way that allows you to make many deep and lasting changes quickly and easily.
A few specific examples of things you can learn to accomplish are: (1) cure phobias and other unpleasant feeling responses in less than an hour, (2) help children and adults with "learning disabilities" (spelling and reading problems, etc.) overcome these limitations, often in less than an hour, (3) eliminate most unwanted habits—smoking, drinking, over-eating, insomnia, etc., in a few sessions, (4) make changes in the interactions of couples, families and organizations so that they function in ways that are more satisfying and productive, (5) cure many physical problems—not only most of those recognized as "psychosomatic" but also some that are not—in a few sessions.
These are strong claims, and experienced NLP practitioners can back them up with solid, visible results. NLP in its present state can do a great deal, but it cannot do everything.
... if what weVe demonstrated is something that you'd like to be able to do, you might as well spend your time learning it. There are lots and lots of things that we cannot do. If you can program yourself to look for things that will be useful'for you and learn those, instead of trying to find out where what we are presenting to you falls apart, you?ll find out where it falls apart, I guarantee you. If you use it congruently you will find lots of places that it won't work. And when it doesn't work, I suggest you do something else.
NLP is only about four years old, and many of the most useful patterns were created within the last year or two.
We havent even begun to figure out what the possibilities are of how to use this material. And we are very, very, serious about that. What we are doing now is nothing more than the investigation of how to use this information. We have been unable to exhaust the variety of ways to put this stuff together and put it to use, and we don't know of any limitations on the ways that you can use this information. During this seminar we have mentioned and demonstrated several dozen ways that it can be used. It's the structure of experience. Period. When used
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systematically, it constitutes a full strategy for getting any behavioral gain.
Actually, NLP can do much more than the kinds of remedial work
entioned above. The same principles can be used to study people who...
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