Rating:  - The Best Self-Esteem improvement method in the world
My wife and I listened to this tape set and it has changed our lives. The effect of having such imporved self-esteem is unmeasurable. The easy methods in this set of tapes will show you how to feel better, even about the bad stuff, so easily and quickly that your therapist will go out of business. Don't tell him/her about the tapes. They don't want to know! have you ever actually felt peacful, relaxed, complete, and worth-it? In just 2 hours you can. What else is there to say? The other reviewer just doesn't want to be happy.
Rating: - Good introduction
I agree with one reviewer's comments on the "clinical" writing style of the book. There's a somewhat impersonal, managemential voice to the book, and the constant, dogmatic "NLP is the answer to everything" tone ingratiates at times.
But, once you get past the style, this is a great introduction to NLP. The ideas are clearly, concisely explained and laid out in an organized fashion with plenty of headings. Like a textbook, there are 43 meaningful exercises here that lead you through all the concepts presented. I looked over quite a few NLP books before this one. This is simply the most practical, organized, learnable really, intro to NLP I've seen. Hopefully, a more personal version can be written someday.
Rating:  - Never mind that last guy the book is good
First let me make a statement about the last reviewers objections. First, hey nobody in NLP claims that this stuff is all air-tight and scientific. "The map is not the territory." This is one way of saying BS is fine if its a useful model. Second, this is not a re-hash of the tremendous book Psycho-Cybernetics in which Maltz has us spend 30 days a night visualizing ourselves with all the behaviors, emotions, and achievments we wish we would have in order to supply a new self-image to our instinctive "success mechanism". (Of course there are many other very interesting ideas and recommendations in that book.) The exercises in this book has us make movies or pictures in our mind, experiment with shifting parameters (submodalities) like size, color, brightness, speed, and border to alter our way we feel about things. As another example it has us rapidly blend pictures from a cue condition to a desired self image (swish pattern). Now I must mention that the Review Synopsis above doesnt seem to describe this book at all to me. Business mettings? Maybe a little. Mostly this book is a self-help book for people who are not really sick in the head but would like to improve their motivation, goal reaching, control over their emotions, persuasiveness, and self-image. The last reviewers objection that there is a lot of mumbo jumbo is a good point. It turns me a little off too... but you can also make the same point about other great self-help books like Psycho-Cybernetics or Think and Grow Rich which believe that there is mystical knowledge floating around in space waiting to be picked up by a tuned-in unconscious mind. Just skip the obvious nonsense. If that kind of BS really bothers you, then you can read Tony Robbins, but on the other hand this book I think is better organized and more fun than his.
Rating:  - Nothing new or technological
This book was extremely disappointing. Based on the semantic hype, I really expected to read something insightful about human behavior/psychology. The book Psychocybernetics written ~35 years ago says virtually the same thing-only withou the naive 'we've got the answer' tone. There is really nothing new in this book or anything even close to being a "technology" as the subtitle claims. Just a lot of classic, tired, positive-visualization exercises with a healthy helping of low-level psychobabble masquerading as a new `breakthrough'.
Rating: - An intruction to NLP but too clinical and methodological
I've had this book for a while but I find that while some of its exercises offer new angles on established techniques, it feels to much like reading a management book.
Even though the entire book guides you to create a blueprint for life, getting through all the exercises is a life committment! The material is clinically laid out and the benefits of each exercise needs to be made more appealing.
If you want something to return to and dip into, this is not for you. If you want a long journey - read it. Sorry Charles but the presentation of your material is really unappealing.
Best wishes
Douglas
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