Submodalities in copy

I recently replied to a video by Dr Harlen Kilstein over at nlpcopywriting.com in which he stated that if anyone had any ideas about how submodalities might be related to copywriting he’d be interested in learning more.

I wrote a reply to Dr Kilstein and I realised that it could be useful for more people to read what I wrote. After I commented on Dr Kilsteins video article, he later made my comments into a seperate article on his website at nlpcopywriting.com. Here are the comments I made on the topic for your reading pleasure: Read more…

Changes Ahoy!

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It’s the New Year and just as I have, I’m sure many of you have decided on new changes you want for this New Year.

Whether that’s to stop smoking, to lose weight, to finally motivate yourself to do that one thing you’ve been putting off, whether it’s to find your life partner or make a million, most of us have set up something that we plan to achieve in this new year. Read more…

Patterns Part 3 – Tracking

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Walking down a wintery London street in late November 2008 I was having a conversation with Gabe Guerrero about tracking patterns and I mentioned that I felt I was alright at tracking but not so good at remembering. Now it makes sense to me that both of these words could mean the same thing and in some way to myself, they kind of do.  When I think back to how I was organising the way I was thinking about these things I start to notice how what most people call remembering I think of slightly differently. Read more…

Christmas with the family – patterns again

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There comes a time in most people’s lives where they feel the need to break free from the family nest and go off to do their own thing. In my case, I moved 200 miles away from my family to be in London, the place I know I’m meant to be right now. As much as I love my family and I look forward to a time when I’m back to living close by them and enjoying their company more regularly, I know for the moment that London is the place I need to be in for the things I want and need to do. Read more…

Patterns part 2 – Information Gathering

This is the second article in a series about patterns and you can find part one here: Patterns 1 – Warmth on the soul

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When Richard Bandler and John Grinder first started out modelling great therapists, a lot of their focus was on figuring out how these therapists did what they did so well. When they published The Structure of Magic volume 1, a lot of people took the material and acted as if the questions in the Meta model were the only questions that could be asked. Read more…

Patterns part 1

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This is the first article in a series in which I aim to focus on the concept of patterns, what they are, how to notice them and how to utilise them appropriately. Part of the reason I’m starting this series of posts on patterns is to track some of my own learning’s and ideas as well as present some of the fundamental ways of thinking in order to become better at noticing, tracking, utilising and changing patterns in human experience. Read more…

Advanced Therapeutic Specialist 2008

Back in the 1970’s a group of young people got together in Santa Cruz to try out some new ideas and through that they began noticing more and more about human behaviour and the ways in which people operate.

It’s November 22nd 2008 and the morning is bright and clear. The skies are blue and there’s a slight autumn chill in the air as I make my way to the tube station. I’m travelling to Bloomsbury square in London and as I arrive at the Georgian building I get the sense that something special is about to occur. I pause for a few moments to take in a breath of chilled air before stepping through the large oak doors. I’m finally there and ready to begin the adventure. This is the Advanced Therapeutic Specialist track of 2008. Read more…

Your Changing Direction

This week I’m the guest blogger over at YourChangingDirection and you can read my new article by clicking here

Here’s what Jenny Waller says:

Jamie Dixon is, in my opinion, one of the rising stars of his generation. Apart from being highly trained and skillful at working with clients, he regularly takes what works in one area and applies and plays with it in other areas of life.

My aim with these messages is to provide you with useful, thought provoking and practical tips and techniques. For the first time in over 2 years of sending out such messages I have a guest writer to share his quality thoughts with you. Click here to read the full article

Breathing for life

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Since I started studying many different areas of both human and personal development including NLP, Hypnosis, parts of Hinduism, parts of Sikhism, Yoga, Western and Eastern energy systems and much more, there has been one area that consistently jumps out at me and seems to be the basis of so much of each of these things.

That area is breathing. Read more…

TDHD™ Test Driven Human Design™

In the software engineering world, test driven development or TDD is the concept whereby you write tests for your code before you even begin writing the code it’s self. This has some huge benefits including: More elegant code, full regression testing taking only a few minutes, no repeat bugs and the idea that more time is spent on new developments than there is going back to fix old bugs and new bugs caused by updates to code.

Since I’ve been learning more and more about different ways of engineering software for computers and I’ve come across new and different ideas, I’ve begun to change the way in which I think about how people operate and the different ways that we can go about doing installations in order to change behaviours.

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