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!
Everyday NLP: How to Practice the “Real Stuff” Between Conversations Originally published in late 1990's on altfeld.com, as an IRC Chat Transcript featuring Jonathan Altfeld on "Everyday NLP". Rewritten by Jonathan for 2026! Most people think “doing NLP” means you’re...
How to Diffuse Anger & Let It Go: A Powerful NLP Strategy Originally published in 1998 on altfeld.com; updated and rewritten in December 2025! Anger management is practically its own wing of psychology. Yet, many traditional approaches focus on "managing" the fire...
Original Perspective: October 27, 2001, published on altfeld.com; Updated here for the Modern Attention Economy Summary for the Impatient Reader Recognize the Trance: Social media and news use sensory triggers to bypass your logic. Ignore "The" Economy: It's a...
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...
The 24-Hour "Golden Card": Why Time Distortion Is About People, Not Patterns Imagine I handed you a golden card. Embossed on it, in ridiculous lettering, are the words: STOP TIME FOR 24 HOURS You can use it whenever you want. When you trigger it, the world freezes....
NLP With Animals (Mostly Dogs):What Works, Why It Works, and Where to Be Careful I’ve used NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) in a lot of places—training rooms, coaching sessions, messy real-life conversations. But one of the most honest “labs” I ever had was my...
Unconscious Installation: The "Secret Sauce" of Accelerated NLP Mastery In the early days of NLP, there was a polarizing whisper about a technique that seemed almost magical: Unconscious Installation. Back then, the reactions were predictable. Critics dismissed it as...
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...
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...
In NLP there is a reasonably well known "hypnotic induction" called 'the NLP Drug of Choice Induction" or Technique. This tends to be really popular at workshops where mature adults get to safely re-experience things they haven't played with since college...
Popular NLP Questions on the web, with Answers! Every day, people search the web with questions about Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Some are curious, others skeptical, and many simply want to know if NLP can help them change their lives. Instead of letting...