NLP Metaprograms and Time Distortion: The Hidden Filters That Run Your Experience Originally published through a chat-transcript on Altfeld.com many years ago; rewritten and updated for 2026. This blog post explores the relationships between meta-programs and our...
Cold-Reading NLP Metaprograms: How to Spot Patterns Before People Speak Originally published in the early 2000's on our old site (altfeld.com) from an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic-Programming) Chat Transcript. Its been heavily updated for publication here as a blog entry. A...
Anchoring is one of those NLP skills that’s simultaneously simple and deep. Simple because you’re already doing it. Deep because, once you understand the mechanics, you can use it on purpose... cleanly, precisely, and responsibly... to help yourself (and others) shift...
NLP & Ecology (& Ethics) - a guiding light Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) has long been a powerful and sometimes controversial tool for personal and professional development. While its techniques can create rapid and profound changes, the topic of NLP...
Mastering NLP Anchoring Have you ever walked past a restaurant… smelled the scents wafting out the front door… and been instantly transported to a different place or time, where you smelled those scents before? A grandmother’s dining room, or a favorite bakery? Or...
NLP Makes Advertising and Websites More influential. But you CAN Take Your Power Back! Every day, we're bombarded by advertising. We see or hear an estimated 3,000 messages per day, or more... if we watch TV frequently. From billboards to product placements, from...
Applying NLP in Sales: The Power of State, Rapport, and Emotional Influence Great selling skills are as much about psychology as they are about product knowledge. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) offers powerful tools to enhance sales effectiveness by optimizing...
Quick Primer on NLP Meta-Programs With Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we all gain massively from understanding how we process information, as well as how we respond to it and structure it. We use structures to track these responses and processes, called NLP...
Let's explore the impact made by NLP or Hypnosis in Politics. Originally published on Altfeld.com; updated and expanded for 2026. Far more famous people have trained in Ericksonian (indirect) Hypnosis and NLP than you might guess. Certainly far more have strong...
On January 1, 2015, Jonathan Altfeld and 20 other co-authors released a digital book entitled "Creating Business Growth." On its first day of release, the book "Creating Business Growth" reached the #1 book in its class on Amazon.com in the UK (6.5 hours) and the U.S....
In today's post, I share a sales-closing I think you'll love, and follow that with NLP skills applied to selling, including: Sensory Acuity, Sensory Awareness, Calibration, Using Suggestions to 'plant' thoughts ethically, and other NLP language patterns! How I...
Do your emotions drive you? Or do you drive your emotions? One of the most impressive people I had the pleasure to meet was a consulting project manager at HP (Hewlett Packard). At the time I was a senior Artificial Intelligence / IT consultant working for an AI...