Using Your Brain--For a Change
Author: Richard Bandler, Steve Andreas, Connirae Andreas
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ISBN: 0911226273
Publisher: Real People Pr (September, 1985)
Sales Rank: 11,980
Average Customer Rating: 4.28 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
Brings Things You Already Know To a Conscious Level
My title may seem a bit surprising consdering the fact that NLP is all about tapping into your subconscious mind; however, Bandler hits home (and hits a home run) in not only stating various truths about how we think on a day-to-day basis, but in also providing the technology to "train your brain" to provide the results and the life you desire. At the time of this review, I haven't worked on the recommended practices enough to qualify them (or to qualify myself, yet, for that matter), but I can say that I am extremely optimistic!!!
I have read numerous (again: numerous) self-help books that deal primarily/only with our conscious level of thinking, and having read Bandler, I now firmly believe that most (not all - most) self-help books that address the conscious level are worth next to nothing until one has addressed their subconscious. I was told, only today - by an NLP practitioner I have been seeing - that Bandler was once quoted as saying that "the conscious mind is the office boy; the subconscious is the CEO."
Bottom line? Buy it, highlight it to the max, and keep it handy as a reference guide. Most importantly (as I plan to do) - apply the matierial within! Good luck.......
Rating: 5 out of 5
Bandler at his best
As an NLP trainer, I think I have read most of the books out there, including most of Bandler and Grinder have written. The first books are dry but informative, then come the gems like "Transformation", and "Reframing", and those are a challenge unless you already know some NLP.
This book is wonderful. It is an easy read, Bandler is spot on with his insights, and he give plenty of practical applications. I read this book many years ago and enjoyed it. I just reread it and was delighted in all the information this book packs between its cover. You will want this book on your shelf if this type of information interests you and maybe even if you don't!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Overated
I didn't find this book or NLP to be worth all the excitement it receives. Some of the exercises, I found hard to do: like imagining I am in the control booth of a theater, watching myself watch myself on the screen; or running a movie of my memory backwards. Since these two techniques seem to be the basis of his approach I was less than satisfied with the material. Other techniques he offers are making a memory larger, or brighter, faster, or clearer, or just the opposite: smaller, dimmer, slower, or fuzzy. I found this all to be somewhat difficult to do and not really about changing how I think about something. For instance, if I have a bad memory that I want to stop from harming me today, it isn't so much the memory that bothers me but how I think about it. So changing the way I remember it be it faster or slower or dimmer or brighter, isn't the same thing as changing how I think about it or the fact that I continue to think about it at all, if I'd rather not. Ovearll, this book did not offer anything extraordinary in my opinion. It did however from time to time offer a few interesting insights into how we think: for instance, we remember the very things we want to forget, and forget the very things we want to remember. This, and other little tidbits were interesting food for thought, .... Similar Products
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