Friday, January 12, 2007
Welcome NLP Connectors!
I'd like to take a moment to extend a hearty welcome to all of my friends from NLP Connections!

I've been working pretty hard on putting together some resources for you like this blog and my podcast, as well as my upcoming seminars and trainings (scroll down to read more and hear a bit about those!).

One of the things that I've experienced over and over again when dealing with some of the very best trainers in NLP is an abundance mindset.

These are people like Jonathan Altfeld or James Lavers (just to name two, there are many others!) who make their living teaching other people NLP and then go out of their way to give freely of that knowledge as well, rather than cautiously guarding their secrets.

Perhaps there are some people who only take and never give back, but my experience is that when you give, you attract the kind of people into your life who also give. And let's face it, the people who don't give back might be best ignored anyway.

I think that there's not really much fun in building your life around the things you want to move away from. I'd much rather build my life around the things and people that I want to move towards.

And so, this is another step that I'm taking in moving towards all of you. Thanks for all of your interest in me and for all of your kind words over the years. If the resources that I can give you in this place and in my podcast can serve as a small thanks for those kindnesses, then it is my pleasure indeed to say thank you in this way!

About The Podcast

If you'd like to subscribe to my podcast so that you are automatically notified of new episodes, just subscribe to the RSS feed for the podcast by clicking here.

If you use iTunes to sync your iPod, click here to add my podcast automatically.

New episodes come out every one to two weeks and tend to run about 20 minutes in length. If you've got questions you'd like to ask or topics you'd like to see me address, click here to e-mail me!

I look forward to hearing from you!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
In the New Year - The Mind/Body/Life Transformation Challenge!
As we approach the new year, we also approach a time rife with memories of promise... and of broken promises. How many times have you heard the well-worn tale of new year's resolutions lying broken and battered on the road to February? And how many times have you participated in that yearly ritual yourself? It all just seems to confirm that things can't ever really seem to change for very long...

Well, this year, why not put aside the resolutions and just change your whole life instead?

Does that sound crazy to you? Outside of your experience? Never heard of anything like it?

Good, because there's a first time for everything, you know...

This year, all during January, this blog and my podcast are going to be about a step-by-step process for beginning a life-changing transformation using powerful technologies like hypnosis and NLP in a proven method to allow anyone, especially you, to make tremendous, positive changes that last.

How would you like to find yourself next New Year's Eve looking back at this year as a tremendous breakthrough year in allowing you to do and be so many things that you've always wanted to do and be?

It's all here, it's free and it's my gift to you.

Keep watching this space...

Be Well,

Michael Perez

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New Podcast Episode and a New Podcast Player!
Momentum continues to build towards release with a holiday themed podcast episode and a brand-new podcast player on the sidebar of this here blog!

Now you can listen to new episodes here if your MP3 player isn't handy or preview the podcast before you decide to use up that valuable space on your iPod with the digital reproduction of my dulcet tones... ;-)

There's some other really exciting stuff going on! Those of you who attended my online Mind-Body Connection seminar remember just what an incredible and successful event that was for everyone who attended. Well, I'm pleased to announce that I'll be doing a live version of that event as three full days over a weekend in February in both Scotland and England!

There's a tonne of new material going into this one including much of my new work, based on correlations between many of the latest findings in experimental neuropsychology and NLP. This stuff is so powerful it can send your effectiveness with both yourself and others through the roof and allow you to make amazing changes in both mindsets as well as in physical health and energy!

Yikes, I sound like a Tony Robbins ad... And with all due respect to Tony, the best thing about this is that it's not something that wears off two weeks after the fire walk!

Anyway, watch this space for more details!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

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Sunday, December 17, 2006
Podcast episode 003 - What is Trance? Pt, 2
The third episode of my podcast and the second part of my explanations about what trance is should now be available at the usual locations (iTunes, Odeo, etc.) or you can just click on the title of this post which is the link to the feed for my podcast.

My podcast is generally intended to be enjoyable even for people who have little or no background in hypnosis or NLP. And, a the same time, those of you who are already familiar with these things can learn something from them on a slightly different level...

One of the things I like to do is teach things on many levels at the same time, and my podcasts are no exception. So, those of you who have a familiarity with non-authoritarian hypnosis or NLP might want to have a different listen to podcasts two and three, comparing and contrasting...

And no matter what level you're listening to it on, I hope you enjoy it!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Podcast episode 002 - What is Trance? Pt, 1
Hi Everyone,

The second episode of my podcast is up. It's an exploration of the concept of Trance and just what it might be, both as an experience and as a neurological phenomenon. My podcast is designed to be enjoyable whatever your skill level, so feel free to give it a listen!

Don't forget that you can subscribe via iTunes, Odeo, and via just about any RSS reader. We're at 2,400 subscribers thus far, without yet having advertised its availability... ;)

And how about considering doing your old pal Michael a favour and writing up a review or leaving me some feedback? A review, good, bad or indifferent, will help others determine if my podcast might be worth a listen or not. And feedback can tell me how well (or poorly) I'm getting across what I mean to be communicating and will give you a voice in what you hear next!! And if you want, you can even Skype me and ask your question on my next podcast yourself!

I'm waiting to hear from you!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

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Monday, October 30, 2006
Monologue Vs. Dialogue
Having put together some of the first few posts here as well as the first podcast (or perhaps the more generic 'netcast is a better word, I'll ponder that), I'm wondering what people can be thinking about these conversations. After all, most conversations have some give-and-take and provide feedback, feedback which can then be used by both parties to find even better ways to communicate with each other about the topic of conversation or even decide when to move on to a different topic.

Monologues

In my experience, the further you move away from close, personal interaction, the closer you come to a monologue, where one person says something in a vacuum and then others who listen can then respond internally to what is said or not. Even the kinds of interactions that are normally referred to as monologues usually aren't.

For example, a comedian delivering a comedy monologue before an audience is usually engaging in a conversation with that audience because their applause and other analogue communications will tell them whether or not their material is working or whether or not they need to make subtle changes in their delivery in order to better reach the people they're interacting with.

And the true monologue can happen even in the most intimate of one-to-one interactions. People can become so fixated, fascinated or even obsessed with what they're saying that their focus becomes entirely internal and they can ignore the other person that they are talking to. Sometimes they can even use this orientation of internal focus to take external communications and completely re-render them using their own internal point of view to the point that rather than addressing the other person, they essentially reframe the entire conversation as an internal dialogue. Needless to say, this isn't a really great communication strategy if your intention is to understand someone else.

Dialogues

Therefore, I prefer to think of this medium, (and by that I mean both this blog and my podcast, as a dialogue, albeit one that evolves more slowly than a direct conversation might. So I'm going to rely on you to give me your feedback and ask me your questions so that the conversation can move in a direction that's useful for you, for all of you and, by extension, for me.

You'll find that when you post a reply here on this blog, it will tell you that the replies are moderated. Although I'm trying to make sure that I eliminate content that basically amounts to spam, that doesn't mean that I'm only willing to post positive comments. I'll let through most things as long as they're reasonably coherent and seems to bear some vague relation to the content at hand, even if I don't immediately see what that relation might be.

And that's not the only reason that I'm choosing to moderate the comments here.

Since the comments are moderated, it means that I get an e-mail every time somebody leaves a comment here. That means that I can also pay close attention to everything that's written and I can take all of those things into account and keep them in mind as I write the next things that will appear here. In this, the monologue becomes the dialogue and we can all enrich one another with the conversation.

So, I'll ask you to please comment where you think you have something that's worth saying. Even if you're not sure, write it anyway if you think it might be the least bit constructive, and who knows what can come of it?

And to further the spirit of this, I'd like to announce that future podcasts will include a questions and answers segment. You can e-mail questions to me as text or, if you'd like, you can even record yourself so that you can ask your question directly on the next podcast! Just E-Mail the recording of less than 10 MB (or the plain text if you want to chicken out ;) ) to me and we'll all look forward to what will come!

I look forward to hearing from you soon!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

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Podcast Episode 001 - Analogue and Digital

The first episode of my new podcast is out. it's a quick 15 minute look at analogue and digital communication and how understanding just how to use one and the other together, in a congruent way, can absolutely cause your communication accuracy to shoot through the roof, not to mention get you out of a bad spot on occasion... ;)

A word to the wise. There is a fair amount of hypnotic language in the content, so I wouldn't recommend listening whilst driving or operating heavy equipment. Wait until you have an opportunity to lie back and relax for a few minutes and we'll both be better off for it!

Love it, hate it or anywhere in-between, I look forward to reading your feedback!

Be Well,

Michael Perez

PS: To subscribe, just click the title of this entry, it's a link. Or just click here.

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