This is the first NLP book read when I got into the NLPtrench. Now I realise how great and magnificant this book is. This book is a pleasure just to read by itself. Although from reading it you will gain specific tools to change your percieved reality (what you feel/think/believe) by using techniques in this book! In order to really fuse with it you need to use the techniqes when you want to change something. In other words it is not something you can read once and then just forget about and espect a drastic change. You can achieve drastic change if you do the exercices once. However many thoughts and ways of acting are habits you will repeat over and over, and this book will make you be able to take control of these habitual things so that you can change them. This will give you control of your reality. If you do the simple techniqes in this book and use them as if they are the most important things you can ever practise, you will transform your way of behaving totally! I highly recommend it!
September 04, 2008

A Great Find!

This book is written in easy to understand terms. If you are looking for a way to change your life by getting rid of the "mental baggage" than this book is for you.
August 16, 2008

NLP 1.0

I'm just scratching the surface of this NLP thing, and this book is a good intro to some of the principles and a few practical applications, written in a very informal style. I finally understand what the heck a submodality is thanks to this book!
January 21, 2007

A good book to start with

From the editor of NLPWeekly magazine:

This is a good book for people who have just heard about NLP. However, it would be wise for experienced practitioners to skip this one. It is full of great self improvement advice, but not of true history cases with patients.

Unfortunately, in my 10 years experience with NLP trainings, trainees tend to confuse real life stories and metaphors. I've even heard of a practitioner who tried to immitate Bandler's story, and almost aniled his client to a wooden cross... Hey, that story IS A METAPHOR! It did NOT happen in real life, unless Mr. Bandler is willing to prove it. No REAL psychiatrist would allow a stranger to threaten a hospitalized patient in a psychiatric hospital. Get over your wishful thinking and learn to separate the fiction from the truth.

All and all, it's an easy to read book, and it can satisfy the newbie.

Shlomo Vaknin, C.Ht
NLPWeekly Magazine
April 16, 2006

One of The Best NLP Books Ever Written!

The book is a great introduction for anyone who's new to NLP and it's applications. Bandler has also included some very good points on motivation, and it's also the foundation text to his latest technology, Design Human Engineering (DHE).

James Leong
Author of The World's First Book on
Network Marketing with NLP,
"MLM Persuasion Mastery: How
Master Networkers Change Beliefs
and Behavior"

November 30, 2005

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