1. It had to have at least 75% original content
2. The Blog has to have a track record for being updated
3. The Blog had to be at least 12 months old with access to the archives

The criteria for this search was very important to me because I wanted to provide a valuable document that you can actually us and rely on, to find the information you are looking for as it pertains to NLP.

#1: Salad LTD (Jamie Smart) – This is an extremely valuable source of NLP information with a lot of free NLP content and downloads. Personally, I believe Jamie is the leader in the NLP industry for creating new and exciting products that work. His card decks are phenomenally powerful for learning and implementing various NLP techniques. http://www.saladltd.co.uk/blog/

#2: NLP Feed – This is a collaboration of multiple NLP resources that are being syndicated on a daily basis to this central hub. It’s a valuable news resource to keep updated as to what is happening in the NLP industry. http://www.nlpfeed.com/

#3: NLP Comprehensive – Another valuable source of information and a library full of articles and success stories relating to positive parenting, personal change, finances and weight loss NLP techniques. http://www.nlpco.com/news/

#4: How To Master NLP (Steve Bauer) – This Blog is all about becoming more focused, how to communicate more effectively and overall emotional fulfillment through the power of NLP. The free NLP guide shows you one of the quickest ways to learn NLP and put it into practice. http://www.howtomasternlp.com/

#5: Jedi Mind Tricks – The focus of this Blog is specifically in mental performance for fighters both professional and amateur. Combining martial arts training with NLP to create a strong body and more focused and determined mind has been the philosophy of Al for close to 20 years. He is now focusing on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA (Mixed Martial Arts). http://jedimindtricksblog.wordpress.com/

#6: Natural Language Processing (Hal Daume III) – This resource looks at several different NLP training styles and models. Hal’s latest post talks about the similarities between Vision Research and NLP which is a very interesting comparison. This is a free style blog with a lot of valuable opinions based on the author and its contributors. http://nlpers.blogspot.com/

#7: Pegasus NLP Blog – This is a valuable source of NLP information as it relates to your daily life. The archives go back to August 2007. This is one of those hard-to-find sources that is pure gold. They have an annual NLP workshop called NLP Adventure. http://pegasusnlpblog.com/

#8: NLP Tweets – NLP Tweets allows you to peek inside the lives of NLP practitioners as well as other NLP students. It’s like an inside look into the NLP community as they converse with each other about NLP and average everyday life in general. http://nlptweets.com/

#9: Positive NLP – This is a fantastic resource which is more like a community. Once you sign up and become a member (free) then you will have access to some of the most extensive information I’ve seen in a while. Their database is filled with relevant articles, videos and like-minded people interested in NLP. http://www.positivenlp.com/

#10: Salad LTD (Jamie Smart) – The reason I put this second source of information from Jamie Smart even though it goes against one of my guidelines (guideline #3) is because this is extremely valuable information that Jamie has on this particular Blog. It was for a launch of one of his products “Conversational Belief Change” but the videos are exquisite. You will get a lot out of the videos in this Blog… I guarantee it! http://saladltd.wordpress.com/

Bonus:

Here is a small list of the top NLP practitioners that you can learn, study and model from as you go through your own NLP journey. Use this to find a mentor who suits your personality and the style of NLP you wish to pursue.

The great thing about NLP is there are many different styles which you can learn and implement for just about any situation you come across. Choosing a mentor should come down to their ability to teach others their techniques successfully as well as their own continued learning and advancement.

Personally, I have chosen Jamie Smart to be one of my mentors because I see him as doing the things I want to pursue later on. He is one of the only practitioners that continue to develop new and exciting products not to mention all the fantastic content he gives away for free on his websites and blogs.

Richard Bandler, John Grinder, John LaValle, Robert Dilts, Eric Robbie, Jo Cooper, Peter Seal, Ian McDermott, Joseph Riggio, Sid Jacobson, and Jonathan Altfeld, Milton H. Erickson, Jamie Smart

You may have been humiliated by your schoolteacher during your childhood; the effect of this experience can be profound and may haunt you for the rest of your life.

Again, over enthusiasm may affect your concentration levels and spoil things for you. Learning about the way your mind imbibes information may help you to learn faster.

NLP tools for accelerated learning may also help to modify your beliefs. Alteration of your belief can very easily eliminate any mental block that you may have. A trained NLP practitioner will thus be able to help you learn much more rapidly than before.

This technique involves recollecting past events & experiences, especially those which can be associated with any extreme form of reaction. The NLP practitioner can successfully connect a body part to the event and you can then recreate the event again and again by simply stimulating that part of your body.

NLP training consists of learning a few of these techniques correctly.

Learning the Swish pattern will enable you to make changes much more rapidly than any other behavior change methods. These skills must be mastered properly if you want to apply the NLP technique successfully thereby improving the quality of your life.

Learning NLP

Basically, NLP is the way in which you run your mind and finding your own path with fulfilment and meaning as you continue on your own NLP journey.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) can be used to persuade others and as you become more aware of the different models involved and continue to study and practice them in your everyday life, and as you do, you will notice more things working in your favour.

Now mind you, not all things will work in your favour because your mind likes a bit of adventure now and then but as you follow your own path in your NLP journey it will lead you to more rewarding and fulfilling experiences in your life and give you that feeling of peace and accomplishment.

Many people are attracted to NLP as a way to enrich their overall financial stability and increase their quality of life by attracting wealth through their positive state of mind and their power to influence and persuade others.

Learning NLP can be accomplished through books and audio courses and that’s probably were you may feel more comfortable learning in the beginning but I urge you to take that leap of faith and see if you can get involved in a coaching program were you will be guided through your personal journey.

NLP enables average everyday people to communicate on a higher level, manage themselves and their own state of mind more effectively, which will influence those around them.

Let me ask you… have you ever been around someone that whenever they started to speak everyone in the room turned around and listened?

Did you notice everyone listening intently as they told a story or maybe you experienced a profound connection that made you want to just close your eyes and listen to what they were saying and how they were saying it?

That is the power of prepositions within conversational hypnosis. The person talking may not have ever realized they were inducing a trans-like state in those who were listening but that’s all just a small part of the power of NLP that you too can achieve

Imagine walking into any room and as you begin to speak at this level of unconscious awareness and everyone immediately liked you. That is the true power of NLP.