Alchemy as

A metaphor for NLP

Think of Alchemy as something which is not just for transforming base metals into gold; but for transforming ‘base’ emotions as well.

Think of it as a metaphor for all the different ways that inexplicable beneficial  change can happen in your life …

• An easy solution to what seemed to have been an insoluble problem
• A change of perspective that opens you to possibilities you could not have considered before
• A chance encounter that becomes your turning point; life-changing in every way!
• Someone mentoring you towards unconsidered excellence, when once you had thought that no one could, or that no one cared
• Kindness towards yourself, after a lifetime of blaming and shaming

Maybe you learned that Alchemy was a precursor to modern science and that nothing it proposed has any serious scientific basis. There’s another perspective that recognizes Alchemy as a metaphor for unaccountable transformational change, the inexplicable dynamics of unconscious transformation.

Neuroscience has barely scratched the surface. Yet there have always been ways to access  the seemingly miraculous

• To design your own emotional states and engage brand new combinations of emotion at will
• To help others effect positive critical change for their, and others’, maximum benefit
• To focus like a laser beam
• To expand your own and others’ conception of what is possible
• To learn in ways that are simpler, more effective, and faster than what you previously considered possible

As magical as a cell phone, a microwave, an artesian well, an organ transplant, a solar powered automobile, a kind word between previously mortal enemies..  would be magic to someone who had never encountered those things before.

But once they do, they are no longer magic, just a part of the ongoing miracle of living.

• How would it be if you learned choose your emotional response to anything at all?
• How would it be if you could tap into your boundless capacity for creative thinking, and know that you can solve any problem that comes  your way in a fashion no one may have encountered before?

Too much to consider, even as a  possibility? What if that were a choice you could actually change, if you wanted to?