NLP - Useful Questions

Here's a quick tip for therapists, coaches, friends, anybody.....

If you are helping somebody make some kind of change in their thinking, emotional patterns or behaviour you already know the importance of how you word a suggestion. I expect you also know how questions can sometimes be so much more powerful than a suggestion. I wonder how you first discovered that for yourself?

Okay, so you've worked out the power of asking questions so your client leads himself or herself to the solution. Sometimes you are helping a client with some kind of belief change. I guess it's sometimes useful to gently lead your client with some carefully worded questions. Yet care has to be taken too, so you do not seem pushy. You don't want your questioning to entrench the limiting belief do you?

I have often watched student therapists trying to put words into their clients' mouths thereby prompting responses such as "I can't", "I never seem to" or "I don't know".

What if there was one simple question that would increase your chances of helping your clients make that shift for themselves? What if this question would be so perfect the client would make the shift by using his or her own unique processes and patterns? What if this question would instantly and easily prompt the client to search for his or her own internal resources and make the change smoothly whilst narrating the change to you so you track what is occurring?

What if that question was "what if"?

Andy Lucas West Sussex Hypnotherapist- Advanced Therapy, NLP & Hypnotherapy