Is Magic In Practice Really Magic

The short answer is yes, at least I think it is. I am talking about ‘Magic In Practice’, the new book by NLP Trainer Garner Thomson and Dr Khalid Khan.

For years now I have been seeing clients, have been reasonably successful and have had often, at the end of treatment, had to deal with questions like, ‘Is there a really good book that explains what NLP is? I would love to know more about it?’

And I have answered with words like ‘umm.’

There are a number of good books on NLP

Because there are a number of excellent books out there that illustrate certain aspects of NLP and how it is applied. I particularly like the ones by Richard Bandler. However, the majority of these are transcripts from seminars and so whilst they are wonderful in their way (and I frequently do recommend books like ‘Frogs Into Princes’ and ‘Using Your Brain For A Change’), no one book really ‘did the trick’.

When The Client Is A Doctor And Wants To Know More...

It was particularly frustrating when those clients had been doctors, surgeons, psychiatrists or psychologists. The best way to learn NLP in my opinion, is to do every training that Richard Bandler does over the next couple of years, and repeatedly watch all of his DVD’s and read all of his books. And, if you have the time and the money, also go and get trained by Robert Dilts, Joseph Riggio, John Grinder and Nick Kemp.

Not that many people have the time to do that (or the money, for that matter), and I don’t think many, if any of the medical professionals I have seen as clients actually did so.

My life is a lot easier now as I can simply recommend that these people get the book ‘Magic in Practice’ and read through it a few times, and then, if they are from a medical background, go on one of Garner Thompson’s trainings.

As Richard Bandler says in the introduction, ‘All I can say is: it’s about time...’

He continues, ‘I have for years been very good at modelling successful healers, but have fallen short of providing the science....these gentlemen have gone so much further, I say thank you – and recommend that any Neuro-Linguistic Programmer read this over and over and over’.

The Rainbow Machine

Another excellent work on NLP to emerge recently is Andy Austin’s 'The Rainbow Machine' which is crammed full of information and insights gleaned from years of practice as an NLP Trainer and hypnotherapist, and also from Andy’s previous life as a psychiatric nurse.

It’s a fresh, thought provoking and interesting book that is in turns fascinating, moving and hilarious, and is like a breath of fresh air. It’s a book, when I read it, that I wished I had written. But I didn’t write it, Andy did, and if you are into NLP in any way, shape or form, then simply buy it. It’s brilliant.