Recursive Change Architecture: Why "Stacking" NLP Techniques Leads to Permanent Change Most people approach personal change like a home repair: they find a single tool, apply it to a single problem, and hope the fix holds. If they have a limiting belief, they run a...
Is Your Reality Actually Real? An NLP Exploration of Perception If you’ve ever watched The Truman Show, you likely remember the growing sense of unease as Jim Carrey’s character slowly realizes his entire life is a fabricated television set. A movie-set light falls...
NLP and Stuttering: How State Control and Rhythm Can Transform Your Speech (originally published April 2011 on altfeld [dot] com. Fully rewritten and updated for modern times!) Quick Takeaways for Speakers & Coaches: NLP is a Strategy, Not a Cure:...
The Missing Engine of EQ: Mastering NLP Emotional State Chaining If you were to ask me a specific question about the state of our field today... "Jonathan, what is the single most important Neuro Linguistic Programming skill that is consistently under-taught and...
The Limited Scope of Myers-Briggs (And Why You Are Not Your Test Score) Editor’s Note: The core concepts in this post were originally published on altfeld.com. This article has been significantly rewritten, modernized, and republished here on February 13, 2026. We...
Editor’s Note: Some of the ideas in this post were originally published in 2013 on altfeld.com. This article has been rewritten, modernized, and republished here on February 1, 2026. You’ve heard them before. "My way or the highway." "Well, if you don't want me...
Introducing the Meta-Model — And the Good Intentions It Requires Originally published January 28, 1998. Completely revised and updated for 2026. If you've been around NLP long enough, you've seen both versions of the Meta-Model: the surgical instrument that clears...
New NLP Practitioners ask me this question, more than almost anything else: "What’s the right way to structure an NLP session?" And I get why. When you’re new, the temptation is to reach for a script because it feels safe. But in real sessions, scripts make you...
In 1997 and 1998, I did a lot of early "chat room" seminars on NLP. This one started the way a lot of my favorite NLP conversations start: informal, half-playful, and about ten seconds away from going deep. This blog entry was originally published as an NLP Chat...
Submodalities & Synesthesia: The Night I Put a Clown on Someone’s Elbow A few minutes before one of those late-night NLP chats, I was at dinner with a friend of the family. She had zero NLP background. So naturally, I told her what I was going to be talking about...
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...
The NLP Milton Model,What it is, and Why it WorksAn Incomplete Guide onHow to be artfully vague… on purpose(and for good reasons) Originally published on Altfeld.com; updated and expanded for 2026. Jump to: [Presuppositions], [Embedded Commands], [100-sentence...