Happiness, so we are taught, is conditional on external things, people and events. When you reliase the truth actually the opposite, you have the power to change your life.

In part two of this NLP Tip on the Power of Beliefs, it's time to change your old, limiting beliefs with new, empowering ones.

What the Thinker Thinks, the Prover Proves, so read this NLP Tip to find out how your mind works to make your beliefs 'true'.

Explore how this NLP Tip can help create behavioural flexibility, change limiting beliefs and find ways to be congruent with what you want.

As human beings we need a place where we can go and draw strength from, resolve issue and just be ourselves. Create this space inside you now and go there when you need to rejuvenate and reinvigorate.

Conversational belief change is an elegant way to pace and shift a person's limting beliefs. However, there are some approaches to conversational belief change that will improve your results dramatically...

Reframing limiting beliefs can be fun and rewarding with Sleight of Mouth patterns. Practice these patterns and you'll also find yourself becoming more persuasive.

'Sleight of Mouth' is one of the most fun ways of reframing and eliminating limiting beliefs. Like a magician using sleight of hand to pull off a magic trick, Sleight of Mouth language patterns can produce magic by shifting a person's attention away from the problem to a more resourceful way of thinking.

Things and events don't just happen by chance... we are the ultimate creators of our reality... the authors of our destinies. The information that follows could seriously change your life, limiting beliefs and halp you achieve goals that you never thought possible.

A staple language tool in management jargon, nominalisations are so hypnotising the stuck nature of a verb frozen in time can often make someone feel stuck. Unlock the process within a nominalisation and change limiting beliefs.

How would you like to______?

There are often holes in a person's perception that often impoverishes their map of reality. Get specific and you can help them move forward and opens the door to belief change techniques.

Who / what specifically?

People often learn rules and judgements and before long they are accepted as reality. Getting someone to realise that these judgements aren't true and are merely memes they elarned from others is a powerful belief change technique.

According to whom? Who says?

People will often describe their limited experiences as representing an entire field or class. This is the basis of prejudice and it can be a very destructive way of looking at the world. Change limitng beliefs with this meta model challenge.

Always? Even when_____ [Never, Everyone, All, etc]

A source of much conflict and limiting emotional states is the idea that a person can know what another person is thinking. Relieve them of this often frustrating mental distortion with this core skills NLP technique.

How do you know?

People can often do what they say they can't. If someone doesn't know the answer to a question about themselves you can pretend that they do and they'll play along. Getting quality responses from people is a key to better coaching skills.

If you did know, what would the answer be?