Shifts Work

Words for Change: The Big Picture and A Bigger Picture

Have you ever wondered how small changes in language can make a big difference to your ability to make a choice? In this podcast, we look at the difference between making a picture bigger and looking at the big picture when you want to learn to communicate better. Along the way, we'll think about how learning involves both new information and practice and the best way to combine those so that you see real change in your skills.

Help for Pain Management and Healing

I didn't intend to start 2015 with a podcast on healing, but the need to support healing has come up too often lately for me not to pay attention. This short recording is a reflection, a trance, a perspective. You will find it gives you fresh thinking on what is happening to the whole of yourself (mind and body and brain) when you are in pain and while you are healing.

Healing happens. Let it happen in you.

Go with Desire: The Keynote from HOPE 2014

This is a shorter version of Linda Ferguson's 2014 Keynote at the HOPE Symposium: Go with Desire. It's an exploration of what it means to "want it" enough to endure and excel. Using the tools of NLP, Linda uncovers desire as an unconscious drive that creates different high-performance states and explores the consequences of dampening down desire to make other people more comfortable.

Desire drives action

You can ride the lazy river of other people's expectations and circumstances beyond your control. You can notice that there is much that is already right and valuable in this moment's experience. But if you glance just once beyond the edges of the flow, you will awaken the hope that more is possible - more control of your direction and your momentum, more control of your results. And then hope will awaken desire - the fire in blood and bone and thought that drives you to action.

How will you know your heart's desire? An old story about the power to choose

The stories you hear and remember become your stories. They are anchors to what you believe and what you expect and what difference you think that a choice can make. If you were a storyteller, you would find that some stories stick and some stories slip through your ears and are gone. You would find that the stories that stick, the stories that become your stories, are about you even when they are stories of another time and other people. If you hear a story and remember it, then it is your story. Your brain does not remember without a reason. So listen and notice what sticks and what other stories come to mind to tell you what you believe about finding your heart's desire.

Sharpen Your Axe with NLP

In this episode produced for the 2014 HOPE Symposium, Linda Ferguson engages you in sharpening your axe - preparing the relaxed and ready state that is associated with high performance.

How to build mental toughness

Mental toughness is a combination of a fierce focus on what you want and perseverance through pain and obstacles. It begins with desire: the breakfast of champions, the air that high performers breathe. Spend a few minutes to focus on what you want enough to want it when you've been knocked in the mud and you hurt all over.

Five minutes to focus on what you want

Take five minutes and build desire - that deep wanting that drives beliefs and behaviours to enrich your experience.

From Idea to Opportunity

Take 5 minutes to focus on what you think, what is possible, and what you want. You'll walk away with fresh motivation to discover opportunity and make good things happen.

This is how HOPE works: it produces the imagination and optimism that drive people to lead more satisfying lives. Find out more at the HOPE Symposium when you visit www.nlpcanada.com

A Walk to Clear Your Head

Did you think healing meant being curled under soft blankets with fluffy pillows?  Colds make us want what makes us fuzzy.  Instead of fighting a cold, walk into it, feeling the wind blow through you and the damp air fill your lungs with salty water.  It's what your body is calling for when you think a cold is catching you.