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Just a note to update you as I continue along my path which you helped me find. I've come a long way, and the further I go, the broader the path becomes and the brighter the light shines as I continue to grow. What an opposite and comfortable change for me after three wars, 72 military war ribbons and medals, and 36 years of military through the ranks from private, to West Point, to Colonel. I am writing you to thank you for all that you taught me in your NLP Level One and your Practitioner Course.
In July, I completed my Master's certification. I am now teaching applicable portions of NLP here at Rockwell, where I am Training Manager, as well as doing seminars at UTEP on communication using NLP rapport techniques. I am also working with the NLP support group here in El Paso and doing assistant training with our NLP Level One and Practitioner Course in El Paso. In addition, I am developing extensive NLP course work for the handicap groups in El Paso: the Lighthouse for the Blind, the Association for the Deaf, and other handicap groups in El Paso. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity for me. The project is being sponsored by our facility at their request as part of our community support program. My "NLP Help Center" for the underprivileged, which I put in my Time Line, is on its way. It's as if the gift was placed in my left hand. Things are just happening! How wonderful it is! See what you started! Thanks!
Back to my purpose in writing. While attending Tad James' "Creating Your Future" in Dallas, I put the Master's Course in my Time Line (as well as my five-year NLP Help Center goal). At that time, I talked with you regarding redoing the Practitioner Course with Tad James prior to tackling the Master's. You told me then that it would be unnecessary. "You will know what you need to know even though you might not know you know when you finish the Practitioner Course." (paraphrased)
Well, when I reached Hawaii and met my 90 classmates, I reflected on what you told me and taught me. You had planted it all firmly in place. Never during the entire Master's Course did I feel lost at any time. In fact, I frequently found myself with a better NLP foundation than most of my classmates who had done their advanced work with other teachers. Needless to say, the Master's Course was most rewarding, for I had the foundation you gave me on which to build. Thanks to you, NLP Learning Systems, my numerous classmates (and those in the future) who helped me along the way. This is not a paid commercial. It is simply my testimony to you and your teaching and your guidance. My sincere thanks for being there at the right time, with the right messages, given in the right way and in the right dosages to change my life forever.
You are models for me to emulate. You were never on a pedestal preaching. You came down in the mud with this old infantryman to lift me up. You will see me often in Dallas taking advanced studies with you and NLP Learning Systems. You know it and you do it right!
Thanks always, Colonel James E. Crow (USA-Ret)
July 24, 1984
Dear Jan:
Thank you for coming into my life. I would like you to know that NLP has helped both my professional and personal life in ways that make me very grateful to you and your teachings.
I would also, like you to know that NLP has freed me from the old constraining habits that once led to fear and frustration during my attempts at interpersonal communication. Now I realize that I have the power to make this same interpersonal communication not only a joyful enlightening experience, but, also, one that makes me feel good about myself and others. To these results, I would like to say thank you.
It's my belief that through NLP, one can profit in other areas besides communication skills. One of these areas can include one's own phobic fears. Case in Point: I had just finished a four (4) month clinic which helps phobic people overcome the fear of heights, flying, and crowded rooms. I did exceptionally well, as I faced my problem areas, however, there was no way for me to practice flying without actually flying.
Last month, I had to take a flight to Pittsburgh, and not having all the confidence I needed to overcame the fear of flying, I asked Jack Walton to do a "Change History" on me. My flight lasted for 2 ½ hours, and I know that this technique helped me enjoy the flight. The Change History Technique has helped me in both business and social activities.
In conclusion, I would like to point out that NLP can help anyone who is open and receptive to trying to overcame their own personal difficulties.
Sincerely yours,
E. T. Kanes,
Assistant Vice President
January 7, 1992
Dear Jan and John,
I would like to extent to you both, your family, and the Training Staff a prosperous New Year. Now that the holidays are coming to a close, I want to take this time to Thank You All for giving my life back to me. This Is the best Christmas present anyone could be given. I know that I was the one to give me the gift, but I could not have done it without you all, especially you Jan.
I want, also, to thank Tony for being there, he was of tremendous support to me. Through Neuro-Linguistic Programming, there is nothing that is incapable of being accomplished. It can be used for healing, the emotional, the mental, the physical and most importantly the spiritual bodies of the self and others.
My plans for this year are to develop healing modules for use in chemical and process addictions and in reversing the dis-ease processes in cancer and AIDS. I know, even accomplishing one of these projects will make a successful year. But the possibilities are there and I want to accomplish them, thanks to you and the Center. I am also going to get my Master NLP Certification this year.
Through NLP, change can and will happen, if the individual really wants the change to occur. It is like healing or is it healing, the Individual who subconsciously wants no healing, will get their expected outcome, which is no healing and likewise, the individual that subconsciously wants healing, as an expected outcome is healed.
Jan and John, I express and extent love, healing, support, gratitude, success and prosperity to you and yours for this year and all years. Tony, I express and extend to you love, healing, gratitude, growth and abundance.
Service is my call and Jan when you wrote that on my heart, the past, present and future now are One. If I may be of service to you, please call on me. It is the least I can do.
With love in service,
Robert Dail, M.D., CAS
April 24, 1995
Dear Tony,
Recently, after completing your Communications and Rapport Skills workshop, an 8-week, on-site course which you taught and custom designed for Commonwealth Trading Company (CTC), I told my staff that we were having seat belts installed in our office chairs. They thought it was funny but I was only half kidding. Since we started your workshop, CTC has been in high gear!
Revenues have increased by over 40%. Profit margins have soared. We are expanding our office space and adding staff. In addition, I have the good fortune to be on the cover of the Dallas Business Journal this week and CTC just had the best first quarter in corporate history. It has been truly remarkable!
You promised me that when we implemented the 8-week course that I would see results. You were correct. I also hear and feel the changes that have occurred within my organization.
One dramatic change is the increased level of quality communication between staff members. Miscommunications and incomplete communications have been drastically reduced and when they do occur we recognize what is missing in the communication, laugh, correct the miscommunication or fill in the missing pieces, and move on. Communication with customers and vendors have also improved and, as a result, the effectiveness of my staff has sky-rocketed. I notice that people seem to be happier and more content in their jobs and with themselves. Without exception, every single person has commented on how much they enjoyed the course and several have requested that we continue.
I want to thank you for your contribution to the success that CTC is enjoying. You have been very cooperative on scheduling class times and really took the time to understand what our needs and objectives of the course were. I have really enjoyed the time you have spent with us and look forward to doing more with you.
Thank you, Tony!
Best regards,
Cynthia Sheriff
July 17, 1995
I wanted to share with you an experience I recently had with simple anchoring. I took my two sons swimming (the youngest one who is 5 years old could not swim at that time). Travis (the youngest) decided that he could not swim, and could not get into deep water without a life preserver or the equivalent.
I finally started to pay attention to his language, and what he kept telling me on this particular day was that "he could not learn it". So I got him to start talking about things he COULD learn, and in fact, things he HAD learned (in school, etc.) -- and while he was doing this, I set an anchor. So I proceeded to teach him to swim, and each time he said he could not learn it, I fired his "learning" anchor. Within 10 minutes, my son was swimming on his own and very happily, I might add. Until this happened, I hadn't really considered using N.L.P. on my children. For me, this has opened a new door to many possibilities in parenting.
Sincerely Yours,
Vallarie J. Duckworth
April 30, 1997
The last three years, there have been circumstances in my marriage that I let control my life. I am a kind, caring, and loving person with a positive outlook on life. However, I have chosen to let the emotion of anger control me. To the point: anger, harboring anger, festering anger is not congruent with my personality.
My profession is an Instructor/Teacher/Educator/Facilitator. When I am in class or involved in a session, I have the ability to, temporally, put the emotion of anger behind me. When I am on break relaxing or on some type of free time, the anger would come back and in some cases be disabling to me.
ln February, I enrolled in the NLP Level One program. In fact, I started on week 5 of the six week program. That night we were taught some anchoring methods and ref raining. On both methods, I chose to use the subject of anger. I have to admit, I did the techniques half heartedly. I mean, I have been angry at some of my wife's activities for over two years, how can some technique solve the problem of anger for me.
That night when I got home, I did not feel any differences. The BIG CHANGE came the next day.
The next morning when I woke up, I felt different. I felt an extreme amount of energy. My body felt lighter, I felt a great sense of power, and great sense of control in my life. What I realized ... "I was not stuck in anger!" It hit me, every morning I would wake up and open my closet and get all the anger I could find and put it in my pockets or any where I could place it. I would carry that anger around with me. In times where I did not necessarily feel angry, I could reach down in my pocket and find plenty to spare.
After I realized that I was not stuck in anger, I tried to find ways to bring it back. I would think of the horrible actions or words my wife would present to me. I thought it would bring the anger back. Instead, I started to laugh. It hit me that I was stuck in anger and I did not want to go back to being stuck.
That afternoon, my mother called me. She would, most of the time, ask, "How are things?" Being honest, I would reply, "Hanging in there, Mom" or "Just taking things one day at a time." This particular day when she asked I said "Mom, I feel great" and when I said it too her, I sincerely meant it. Emotionally, I felt great, I was not stuck in anger. My mother responded with, "So, your circumstances must have changed (meaning my relationship with my wife)." I simply said, "No mom, I have changed." I told mom that the anger was behind me. If I wanted to find that anger, I would have to go into the past, and I was not willing to go into the past, I am ready to move forward. Of course, she did not understand.
That afternoon, I had another test on anger. My cleaners are located behind my house. That afternoon, I went to pick up my clothes and the cleaners gave me my wife's friend's clothes. At first, I felt a sense of anger, but instead of getting mad and confronting the issue with my wife, I saw many options in which to handle the situation. One of which was not to let the anger control me.
[. . .] it has been 3 months since the initial training. Each day, in some form or fashion, I have tested the emotion of anger. I can become angry, if I choose, but what I have discovered is that I do not become stuck in anger.
NLP is and continues to be a LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE for me. Thank you for the time, the training, the love, the patience, and most of all thank you for you.
Sincerely,
Nalan Mitchell
I want to share my experience with you. The most important part of change for me was allowing myself to go through the process of changing. I had to learn to stop following my emotions and start to control them. Many times, my emotions were nasty and took a longer time to change and overcome than I first thought. But when you make honest decisions with yourself, you decide to change, and nothing will change that decision.
Remember: "What you seek is seeking you."
Only overcoming emotions can create change. In emotion, I include fleshly desires.
They must change. Emotions determine who we are. The important part of this is that you must control your emotions so that they work for you.
If you love yourself, you will do everything to overcome your old self to find your new self. I know everyone who works on changing themselves will find this as helpful for them as it was for me.
- M.K.
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