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NLP was developed in the mid-70s by John Grinder, a Professor at UC Santa Cruz and Richard Bandler, a graduate student. NLP, as most people use the term today, is a set of models of how communication impacts and is impacted by subjective experience. It's more a collection of tools than any overarching theory.

Much of early NLP was based on the work of Virginia Satir, a family therapist; Fritz Perls, founder of Gestalt therapy; Gregory Bateson, anthropologist; and Milton Erickson, hypnotist.

Endorphin Morphin': Running Toward Mastery

by Dale Kirby, da5e@rain.org

This is a technic I concocted that I use a lot for enhancing my abilities in various areas such as writing and consulting.

• I decide on a goal of becoming.
• I chunk it down into 4-5 Me-Who's. (more on this in a minute.)
• I go jogging. Pick a spot ahead. Visualize multiple (phased) images of myself stretching from current me to another better Me-Who at that spot who is already someone with the attribute I have chosen.
• As I absorb those images into myself, I feel myself becoming that person who can...
• And when I reach the spot I imagine a jolt as the final incarnation enters my body.
• I run mindfully (associating to my body) for aways.
• Then repeat the procedure with another Me-Who attribute.

What's a Me-Who?

A Me-Who is a visualization of myself with certain enhanced attributes that I desire to have. For example, a set of Me-Who's for writing might be:

• A Me-Who has a rich flow of words and thoughts that run out of my mind into my fingers.
• A Me-Who can subsonsciously compare what I write to what I know to be "good writing" (an editor)
• A Me-Who sees unusual but relevant connections between ideas and objects. (a me-taphor)
• A Me-Who has the discipline to see a project through.
• etc.

Variations:

• I sometimes use the image of an energized Me-Who running up from behind me and becoming me with a surge of energy. Also, have the other Me-Who jumping out at corners and jolting me with change.
• As a summary I visualize that evolutionary series of images which lead from primal soup to star child through the evolutionary stages. And the star child is the ultimate Me-Who who is me.

Of course, some days I just run!

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