Most people are afraid of writing.
It's hard work; it's frequently not rewarding; and it leaves writers vulnerable to criticism of their thinking, their tact and their ability to persuade.
For many people, the downside is more emotionally powerful than the potential benefits.
Writing is a necessary evil.
Writing is necessary.
It has powerful benefits that cannot be achieved as effectively in any other way.
Writing stabilizes experience so that we can agree on what is real, what has been done and what needs to be done.
Whether on the screen or on the page, written language gives us a chance to slow down, think, and respond to situations consciously and attentively.
So what would it take for you to enjoy the process? NLP is a set of practices that are brilliantly equipped to make writing more enjoyable.
On the one hand, NLP practices allow you to step into the shoes of the people who love to write so that you can be transformed.
On the other, NLP practices for influence can charge your writing with new power.
It's easy to like writing when you like the results you get from your writing.
The best way to begin is with the difference between the way you feel when you sit down to write and the way you feel when you are at your most competent and effective.
Think about how it feels to be in control of the task, to be doing something you know you can do well, to be completely certain of the quality of the results you will get.
Now think about writing.
You can map the differences between the two states in your body, in your beliefs and in your perceptions.
What would it be like to close the gap between the two so that you felt more confident that you could apply your strengths to your writing?NLP practices allow you to imagine that you have what you need to get the job done in your writing and then to make what you imagine real.
NLP can give new strength to the writer and new power to the writing.
Writing is an abstract process with tangible results.
It involves becoming acutely aware of how the human mind works so that you can accurately trigger responses with only a limited number of words.
NLP is the study of how the human mind works to produce tangible results.
Its practices are immediately applicable to writing whether you are writing to clarify your own thoughts or to influence the thinking of someone else.
Writing brings sound and sight together: written words are simultaneously the symbols we see and the sounds we hear as we look at them.
This gives the writer access to the two most specific and most widely used sensory systems.
The more the writer is able to use the shape of words and sentences, their tone and their rhythm, the more the writer creates an irresistible experience for the reader.
What is more, this experience unfolds as internal dialogue so that readers hear the writer's words as if they were their own thoughts.
Clever writing combines specific sensory references with broad generalizations and abstractions.
It gets into the heads of readers, and stimulates many different parts of their brains simultaneously.
It uses the same words and different words to activate well-worn neural pathways, to build on existing learning and to add new connections and new twists.
Through rhythm, repetition and imagery, good writing can create the same deep focus as other trance states.
It plants the seeds for action.
What if you could echo someone else's thoughts so precisely that it seemed your thoughts had slipped into their minds?It might sound a little creepy but it's what good writing does.
It creates such a deep rapport with the habits of the readers' minds that readers accept what they have read and then repeat it in their speech and actions.
You demonstrate this whenever you quote something you read in the newspaper or repeat the punch-line from a joke or a commercial.
As a human being, you are brilliantly equipped to notice the signs and patterns of thought in other human beings.
You have everything you need to learn to echo those patterns in written language, to build the agreements necessary so that you can make suggestions that stick.
Your writing--even when it is ungrammatical or not very elegant--can anchor complicated situations, offer stability, reassurance, maps and patterns of action.
It takes all your best effort and it repays that effort by transforming your own thinking and the thought and action of your readers.
Writing works.
With NLP, it can work for you.
It's hard work; it's frequently not rewarding; and it leaves writers vulnerable to criticism of their thinking, their tact and their ability to persuade.
For many people, the downside is more emotionally powerful than the potential benefits.
Writing is a necessary evil.
Writing is necessary.
It has powerful benefits that cannot be achieved as effectively in any other way.
Writing stabilizes experience so that we can agree on what is real, what has been done and what needs to be done.
Whether on the screen or on the page, written language gives us a chance to slow down, think, and respond to situations consciously and attentively.
So what would it take for you to enjoy the process? NLP is a set of practices that are brilliantly equipped to make writing more enjoyable.
On the one hand, NLP practices allow you to step into the shoes of the people who love to write so that you can be transformed.
On the other, NLP practices for influence can charge your writing with new power.
It's easy to like writing when you like the results you get from your writing.
The best way to begin is with the difference between the way you feel when you sit down to write and the way you feel when you are at your most competent and effective.
Think about how it feels to be in control of the task, to be doing something you know you can do well, to be completely certain of the quality of the results you will get.
Now think about writing.
You can map the differences between the two states in your body, in your beliefs and in your perceptions.
What would it be like to close the gap between the two so that you felt more confident that you could apply your strengths to your writing?NLP practices allow you to imagine that you have what you need to get the job done in your writing and then to make what you imagine real.
NLP can give new strength to the writer and new power to the writing.
Writing is an abstract process with tangible results.
It involves becoming acutely aware of how the human mind works so that you can accurately trigger responses with only a limited number of words.
NLP is the study of how the human mind works to produce tangible results.
Its practices are immediately applicable to writing whether you are writing to clarify your own thoughts or to influence the thinking of someone else.
Writing brings sound and sight together: written words are simultaneously the symbols we see and the sounds we hear as we look at them.
This gives the writer access to the two most specific and most widely used sensory systems.
The more the writer is able to use the shape of words and sentences, their tone and their rhythm, the more the writer creates an irresistible experience for the reader.
What is more, this experience unfolds as internal dialogue so that readers hear the writer's words as if they were their own thoughts.
Clever writing combines specific sensory references with broad generalizations and abstractions.
It gets into the heads of readers, and stimulates many different parts of their brains simultaneously.
It uses the same words and different words to activate well-worn neural pathways, to build on existing learning and to add new connections and new twists.
Through rhythm, repetition and imagery, good writing can create the same deep focus as other trance states.
It plants the seeds for action.
What if you could echo someone else's thoughts so precisely that it seemed your thoughts had slipped into their minds?It might sound a little creepy but it's what good writing does.
It creates such a deep rapport with the habits of the readers' minds that readers accept what they have read and then repeat it in their speech and actions.
You demonstrate this whenever you quote something you read in the newspaper or repeat the punch-line from a joke or a commercial.
As a human being, you are brilliantly equipped to notice the signs and patterns of thought in other human beings.
You have everything you need to learn to echo those patterns in written language, to build the agreements necessary so that you can make suggestions that stick.
Your writing--even when it is ungrammatical or not very elegant--can anchor complicated situations, offer stability, reassurance, maps and patterns of action.
It takes all your best effort and it repays that effort by transforming your own thinking and the thought and action of your readers.
Writing works.
With NLP, it can work for you.
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