FACING UNCERTAINTY

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ “In my opinion … As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” Albert Einstein […]

FROM THE PAST INTO THE PRESENT

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ FROM THE PAST INTO THE PRESENT The past posts have focused on the subject of getting over the past. While this is not the theme, purpose, or essence of NLP, it is one […]

GETTING OVER YOUR PAST – TIME CODES

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ The Concepts of Time To get over the past, you need to understand about the concept that we call “time”-what it is, what it is not, what you are actually referring to when […]

Embrace The Fluidity Of "Personality"

EMBRACE THE FLUIDITY OF “PERSONALITY” ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ If the question came up once, it came up several times, this year. The question? Something about “personality.” “Is that the way some people just are?” “What about […]

Super-Charge Your Ego-Strength

SUPER-CHARGE YOUR EGO-STRENGTH ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer, ACMC ~ What we call ego-strength is the strength that a person has in his or her sense of self to look reality in the face without blinking. It is the […]

WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER AN EMOTION

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ As a coach, and especially as a Meta-Coach, you frequently (like just about every time) encounter strong emotions in your clients. It’s inevitable. They are humans! The only exception is if you are […]

BEYOND PRO/CON DECISION MAKING

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ In Meta-Coaching we use the Axes of Change as our first and primary model for enabling people to make intelligent, robust, and ecological decisions. Specifically, we use the second axis, The Decision Axis which is based […]

THE THREE MAGIC WORDS OF RESILIENCE

By Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall There are three magic words that conveys the inner spirit of resilience. I stumbled onto them in reading Martin Seligman’s work on Learned Helplessness and then on Learned Optimism. In his books he tells the story of moving from […]

PSEUDO-DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Pseudo-Decisions There are decisions and then there are things which pass for “decisions” yet which are not real decisions. They are pseudo-decisions. They often and usually seem like a decision in some respects, but actually they […]

LUCKY DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ In some decisions you are lucky- very lucky. To discover this think about a decision that you made which turned out really great. In fact, repeat this several times reflecting on different decisions that you made […]