NLP Modeling - How to Acquire Any Skill or Expertise (Part Two)

There are no limits to what you can do. Your key isthemselves, they can do things they never thought
power of modeling. Excellence can be duplicated. Ifpossible, that their greatest fears and limitations are
other people can do something, all you need to do isself-imposed.
model them with precision and you can do exactlyIf you or I can be taught to walk on fire, and we
the same thing, whether it's walking on fire, making adiscover in the process that 99% of the things we
million dollars or developing a perfect relationship.previously thought were impossible are merely
Anthony Robbinsself-imposed limitations and false beliefs (I haven't yet
Unlimited Poweraccomplished that last 1%, which includes things like
This is powerful stuff. Anything anyone can do, youleaping over tall buildings in a single bound, or running
can learn to do just as well, and you can learn to dofaster than a speeding bullet, but I'm still working on
it faster than that person learned to do it, with theit), imagine what else we can do?
NLP (neuro-linguistic technique of "modeling."So what can we dare to imagine ourselves doing
Think this sounds far fetched? Well did you noticeonce we learn that anything anyone else can do, you
that Robbins included walking on fire along withand I can do as well? Would we dare to make a
making a million dollars and developing a perfectmillion dollars? Would we dare to ask the most
relationship? This is because at the graduationattractive person we'd ever met out for a date?
ceremony of each of his seminars, Tony has hisWould we go back to school? Would we quit a job
students go through a fire walk, just like the Hinduwe hate and start our own business? Would we quit
gurus who still walk barefoot across a path of redthe business world entirely and make our living in the
hot coals without the slightest burns on their feet.creative and artistic areas we so love?
As he explains it in the first chapter of UnlimitedNLP modeling sets us free to do all these things and
Power:more. If we can merely find someone who is already
The firewalk is an experience in personal power anddoing what we desire to do, and learn to model that
a metaphor for possibilities, an opportunity for peopleperson's actions, both internal actions such as beliefs
to produce results they previously thought impossible.and thought process, and external actions such as
It teaches people in the most visceral sense thatphysiology, we will produce the same exact results
they can change, they can grown they can stretchas that person.