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NLP and The Meta Model. Noticing the Difference Between a Judgement and the Truth, and Why It Matters.

Feb 10 2026 02:53pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

NLP provides a way to become consciously aware of the difference between a judgement and the truth, and the Meta Model provides ways to gently challenge those judgement One of the big takeaways from NLP is to notice the difference between a judgement and the truth, especially if it ...

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How to Manage Stress Using NLP.

Jan 20 2026 12:23pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

NLP training can help you to manage stress or a highly stressed reaction, especially anger. Here are some easy to follow steps that can provide a healthy way for your natural reactions to be processed, but not elevated. Follow the P. A. U. S. E. process: P —Programme. Events ...

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Using Mindfulness to Manage Stress and Boost Mental Health

Oct 23 2024 12:19pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

What is mindfulness and how can it help manage stress ? I would define mindfulness as a mental state, where your conscious attention is taken up with experiencing the present moment. You are no longer dominated by your thoughts and feelings; you have a choice whether to engage with ...

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Why Your Inner-Voice Is Not as Helpful as You May Think

Aug 11 2022 03:37pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

In this video, I cover principles of how our thoughts can be expressed as an inner-voice and some reasons why that inner-voice may not always be helpful to us. I also discuss the intriguing quote, “The child is father of the man” by William Wordsworth (another way of putting ...

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Secondary Gain, Behind Every Behaviour is a Positive Intention

Feb 09 2022 03:35pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

Positive intention, secondary gain or payback as some people call it is the conscious or unconscious benefit we derive from any behaviour that we exhibit. Recognising that behind every behaviour is a positive intention is a primary assumption of NLP. It is a concept derived from humanistic psychologists like ...

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8 Steps to Successful Personal and Organisational Change

Apr 15 2021 12:27pm

By Dr Ann-Marie Wilson

In organisations, or personal life, if resistance is experienced by a conflict or boundary issue, it is probably because a belief or value has been challenged. Conflict or distrust often originate from communication misunderstandings. Individual and team discussions around core values create better connections and greater understanding.

How to Get Over Anxiety Using NLP Techniques

Jun 01 2020 09:00am

By Robbie Steinhouse

We live, we are told, in an anxious world. We’re anxious about our jobs, our families, our futures. This has been exacerbated by the current economic and global climate. So how can we ease our anxiety, and how can NLP help with this? I explore these questions, in this ...

Keeping the Black Dog at Bay: Can NLP Help With Depression?

May 27 2020 05:00pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

2.6% of the adult population of the UK suffer from depression of some kind. This equates to over 1 million people. I feel very sad when I read a fact like this and think of all the suffering and wasted potential that lies behind it. I’d love to be ...

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Empathy: A Key to the COVID-19 Crisis

Mar 19 2020 04:10pm

By Sophie Leane

In times of crisis, it is difficult to hold on to empathy. When faced with death, fear or scarcity, most of us retreat inwards. We put on our own masks first, before helping others. This is true of every situation which threatens to destabilise the normal order of things. And ...

How to Avoid Self-Sabotage and Binary Thinking

Mar 12 2020 10:49am

By Sophie Leane

Human beings are naturally drawn to binary thinking. It helps us make sense of the world, which is large, confusing, and ultimately unknowable. Instead, we prefer to believe that, in any given situation, something is either X or Y, with nothing in-between. Never X and Y. This is because the human ...

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Managing Your Mind — Negative Feelings and NLP

Mar 04 2020 11:05am

By Robbie Steinhouse

The Negative Feeling Cycle Do you ever find that your mind goes around in circles — thinking and rethinking certain problems, your mental state worsening, with no more clarity as to how to solve the problem? Perhaps you also feel victimised, in conflict with other people? In this blog, I will give ...

Mentalisation Based Therapy Processes for Mental Health

Feb 12 2020 02:49pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

This blog covers how aspects of NLP can be used to help to manage mental health, and discusses an accompanying process called “Mentalisation Based Therapy”. Mental Health is a Spectrum Psychology often seems to imply that there are two groups of people – those with mental health issues and ...

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Techniques For Inner Peace

Oct 04 2019 03:28pm

By Robbie Steinhouse

In this blog I will share some techniques for inner peace, drawn from the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy of Stoicism and modern NLP. I will also discuss how these techniques can help us live happier and more productive lives. But first, a brief bit of background; there are ...

How to Use Mindfulness to Overcome Negative Thinking

Mar 08 2016 10:02am

By Robbie Steinhouse

Clients often express negative thinking, which they imagine to be objectively true, but which are actually not true at all. A classic example is “I could never do that.” As coaches we learn to challenge these, for example by asking, “What would actually happen if you did?” These sorts ...

Your Guide to Coaching Mindfulness

Feb 22 2016 09:12am

By Robbie Steinhouse

Three good robust questions about Mindfulness leap to mind. First, what is it? Second, what can it do for me? And third, is it a fad that will soon pass? Taking these one a time… What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is simply living in the ‘now’, being aware of your ...

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Coaching for Inner Peace

Jun 12 2015 11:36am

By Robbie Steinhouse

Can coaches help clients find inner peace? Often coaches are presented with a succession of issues that trouble their client – at work, at home; the list seems to be endless. It’s easy for both coach and client to start believing that there is an underlying ‘big issue’ driving ...

How NLP Can Help You With Anxiety

Jun 02 2014 11:40am

By Robbie Steinhouse

There seems to be a lot of anxiety around. The fashionable remedy for it is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), which has become ‘official’ – you can get it on the NHS. CBT has been proven to deliver results, but I believe NLP offers both a tool that is just ...

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