Another of the NLP metaprogrammes is ‘towards and away from thinking’. When we focus on what we want to happen, what we want more of, how we want to be, this is ‘towards’. If we focus on what we don’t want, what we want less of and how we don’t want to be, this is called ‘away from’.
Our mind wants to know what we want and finds it hard when we tell it “I don’t want to be worrying about what other people say”, “I don’t want to feel left out and anxious”. The words it hears there are ‘worrying about what other people say’ and ‘left out and anxious’.
If you’d like to know more about the metaprogrammes and about VAK which I mention in the podcast, you might want to buy my book ‘Be a happier parent with NLP’. You can buy it on Amazon or from my website.
I’ll be making podcasts on all of them
If you’re a coach or therapist or perhaps a teacher you may like to subscribe to my substream as I shall be posting a quiz there so a child can work out whether they are ‘towards’ or ‘away from’.
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