Mind Adventures 7 (NLP): Core States

Day 7 of Neurolinguistic Programming GradDip Part 2, Thoughts and Insights on Core States Transformation
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When I thought I knew everything there is to know about NLP (at least conceptually), I come across Core Transformations.

This is about digging deep. So deep you discover what is referred to as “core state”. Once you experience the core state, it then has a transformative effect on the state on top of it, and then on top of that state, and so on and so forth. It is like an onion. You peel it, one layer after another until you reach the core.

“Identify a behaviour you want to change”.

You then go through this process “as if” you have different parts. You acknowledge those part/s of yourself that does the behaviour. In NLP, every behaviour is presupposed to have good intention.  For instance, while smoking may seem like a ‘negative’ behaviour, the ‘positive’ intention is to relax oneself by taking a break. Once the positive intention is identified, you can then generate alternative behaviours for taking a break which then achieves the intention of relaxation. Taking a walk for instance.

Notes:
Deriving the core state is about finding the intentions behind intentions — and this could be a short or a long chain. A transderivational search is then applied to the process, then resourcing in the reverse chain. The unconscious mind is very much a part of this process. No part is integrated back until an ecology check is done with the unconscious. At a fundamental level, this is applied with one part — there could be multiple parts involved in some cases.

Thanks to Chris Collingwood, he explained quite clearly that the patterns are not new, only the “package”: outcome-intention-consequence,  logical chunking, timeframes and perceptual positions.

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