When working to learn and improve NLP skills and knowledge, we only improve when we keep making increasingly fine distinctions in our knowledge, sensory acuity, calibration skills, awareness, and information-gathering processes. This Neuro Linguistic Programming Blog is devoted using advanced perspectives to help you challenge assumptions, knowledge and skills, thus helping you develop finer, and finer distinctions. If you want to get really, really good at NLP, this is the way. Welcome!
How to Be More Efficient With NLP — Without Getting Stuck Chasing “Efficiency” "Efficiency" is one of those words that sounds like a practical goal… and often behaves like a mental trap. In NLP terms, efficiency is a "nominalization" — which is a process... frozen...
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...
Strategies to Help People Understand, Consciously and Automatically (Or: Learn to “Package” Information So It Sticks, from NLP Training Design techniques) (Originally published long ago at altfeld.com; rewritten and updated for this website's blog!) One of my highest...
Play Is a Serious NLP Skill Why the fastest learning happens when you stop trying to be impressive! I’ve been migrating and updating older writing, and one pattern is… humbling. I'm aware... that I can sound way too serious online! To be clear: I take outcomes...
NLP Lie Detection: The Part Everyone Skips (And Why It Matters) Most people who get excited about "NLP lie detection" are really excited about tells. Eye accessing cues. Micro-movements. Swallowing. Voice cracks. Fidgeting. "They looked left, so they’re lying." That...
NLP & Sales: The High-Leverage Secret Is… State. (An old IRC transcript published in early 2000's on altfeld.com, rewritten here for 2026. And its still true!) Most people think "sales skill" means: the right words. It doesn’t. If I had to compress 90% of sales...
Want to Learn How to "See Auras" Without Getting Woo-Woo About It? I don’t talk a ton about "energy" topics publicly — not because I think they’re taboo, but because the word energy gets used to mean everything and nothing. Still… NLP courses tend to attract curious...
Optimizing Your Thinking Patterns This blog entry is a rewritten, updated version of a blog entry published at altfeld.com 16 years ago. Before we dive in, a quick note about what this article is, and isn’t. One of the things I love about NLP is how it gives us real...
A story... of Bungled Hypnotic Advertising! This article was originally published in 2011 on altfeld.com; updated in 2026 for this website. I wrote this one day in 2011 when I lived in South Central Pennsylvania. If you're near me, you probably listen to Mix95 radio...
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...
Developing NLP Calibration Skills: The Hidden Engine of High-Level Communication Updated and rewritten for modern eyes 1/2/2026; previously published by Jonathan Altfeld years ago, as an article on altfeld.com. NLP "Calibration?" What the Heck Is That? Simply put:...