“NLP Comprehensive: Building Self Concept”

Beyond Self-Esteem, the power of the self-concept in motivating and directing a person’s behavior has been recognized for years. This pattern, developed by Steve and Connirae Andreas, uses submodalities to elicit the existing structure of self-concept, and then build a new one with the same structure. In this demonstration Peter learned how to think of himself as lovable, and the wide-ranging impact of this change is demonstrated in follow-up interviews with Peter and his wife. (39 minutes in length.) In this video, Steve shows us how to use submodalities (sensory distinctions such as bright/dim; loud/quiet; hard/soft) to strengthen self-concept. Steve’s client Peter learns to think of himself as loveable; and through follow-up interviews, you’ll hear how this change has affected Peter and his wife. To get maximum benefit from this instructional video, you’ll need prior NLP experience. The Belief Change processes are appropriate whenever there is a limiting belief, which is typically a negation. The old limiting belief has to be weakened before the new belief is installed, in order to avoid creating a conflict. However, sometimes there is no limiting belief; the person just hasn’t built a useful generalization for themselves that is durable. In this case you can find out how they maintain a durable generalization and use that format to build a new one. Some people are able to maintain a solid sense of themselves as having some attribute– being capable, lovable, etc.–even when events or others around them temporarily contradict these attributes. Other people are much more dependent upon others to continually reassure them about an attribute even though they demonstrate it frequently in their behavior, and they may take any denial of that attribute by a person or event very seriously, no matter how many positive examples they have experienced.