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My first introduction to NLP was through David Deangelo. In his only good course, Double Your Dating the Advanced Course, he spills the beans on the books he used to formulate his own game.
Figuring the best way to create "my game" was to go the source and build from there, I purchased most of the books he recommended. Bandler and Grinder are credited as the fathers of NLP with the original master of it being Milton Erickson.
NLP is basically an instruction manual for the brain. It gives you another set of eyes to view the world, albeit more objectively. It has been adapted for all sorts of uses, such as sports, sales/business, therapy and psychology, and seduction.
Once you understand how things work, you can begin using them to your advantage.
For instance, when a girl hears a song she really likes the first time with you, it becomes "your" song. Each time you play it, she'll remember you, that moment, and be happy.
Conversely, many women get scared or encounter fear if you reproduce a behavior, action, or word that an X may have used that hurt her in the past.
On both occasions I have witnessed this with my own eyes. Regarding music, each time I've put on a Dave Matthews Song, all disagreements have ended and she's been pretty happy. You'd laugh if it wasn't true, and probably will laugh anyways, but highly sensitive girls respond immediately to such things, since they are so highly influenced by external events.
Regarding the fights we've had that made her recall past fearful experiences, it's only happened when she expected certain behaviors as a result of things I did, whether or not I was her X or trying to hurt her didn't matter, it followed a pattern like deja vu, and she acted as expected.
Knowing all this, I've sat with a girl and said:
"I'm me, I'm not your X, whether that sinks in or not. Would it be fair if I blanketed all your actions with those of girls I dated before you? If I saw you as just another girl? No. You wouldn't like that very much. I'm a guy, sure, but you have to realize I'm unique in every way, so don't peg my actions with expectations."
I'd say its valuable regardless of your intentions because you learn even about your habits and mannerisms. You understand how humans are such creatures of habits, how we see a symbol and ALWAYS see it one way, when that's not true. How one fearful act in the past can totally ruin your future.
Some books:
Introduction to NLP
Awaken the Giant Within
Unlimited Power
Structure of Magic I and II
Mind-Lines: Lines for Changing Minds (Great Book)
Those are the biggies.
To me, THIS is the stuff people should be taught in high school and college. THIS is the english language IN USE. Not literary novels, great as they maybe, which few if any read, and even littler impact on the readers than the ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE properly.
It's not a magical science, BUT when you've been introduced to a new way of thinking, your world does change. Using Mind-Lines I've been unable to unwrap, unravel, and dismantle many arguments people impose with such ferosity. Moreover, you become a good conversationalist by using the tools and lines. It opens up your own creative pathways to enable you see, hear, smell what they see, hear, smell.
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