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“I invite you to notice the power of awareness patterns…”

Lesson 4 one of the little known and most powerful Covert NLP Patterns you can learn…

This week we will have a look at awareness patterns and how powerful they can be. These patterns are some of the simplest and easy to use, but once you understand how to use them you will notice how incredibly powerful they are. Before we start here are a couple of things from last week:

“I knew it wasn’t the greatest piece of work, but the issue was more about getting something done within the deadline, would you have preferred it to have been late?” – Good result for shifting the heavy amount of criticism that was just about to start flying her way.

“I agree it’s scary, but think about how you will feel once it’s done and out of the way. The issue is really about how brave you can be now.” – Neuro Linguistic Parenting and talking your child into being brave at the dentist.

Keep the examples coming, the more you do, the more you write, the more we have to share and the better we all get at getting results.

Anyway, have you noticed how some things are just taken for granted? What I mean is that sometimes a person can say things and what they say is never questioned. If there are patterns that allow you to do this, are you aware of how powerful they would be? We are talking about awareness patterns and as you are already noticing they really can be that powerful.

NLP Awarness Patterns

Awareness patterns in language are words like; notice, realise, experience, see and obviously, aware. They are really powerful because everything after the word is presupposed as true. Let’s just deconstruct what makes the pattern so powerful.

I could just make a statement and tell you that awareness patterns are powerful. But this is very obvious and subject to challenge. I could ask you if you think awareness patterns are powerful. But this gives you the option to agree or disagree. But if I were to say something like, “By reading this sentence you will start to notice how powerful awareness patterns are.” The second half of the sentence is presupposed to be true. If anyone were to challenge the sentence they will usually challenge the first half i.e. How does reading that sentence make me more aware of the power. There is still a presupposition of the power in the challenge.

Just notice how you can ramp this up by changing the statement into a question. For example, “Do you realise how powerful awareness patterns are?” This is a closed question and whether you answer yes or no the issue is that you are reflecting on your realisation not on how powerful the pattern is. Is this really sneaky stuff or what?

Having read the previous paragraph I invite you to notice how flexible and easy this is to use…and are you starting to experience the power of these patterns…Sat at your computer, reading through this lesson means you are already seeing dozens of applications. If you haven’t already noticed several ways of using this yet, it is because you need a couple of examples to get you going. So here are a few:

NLP Language Pattern Examples, Awarness Patterns

A fairly typical sales conversation that I have had in the past might go:

“Are you already aware of the power a NLP Practitioner course will give you?” A yes answer would be perfect, but let us say the prospect says “No.”
I would just respond with, “I agree you are not yet aware and that’s because we haven’t yet been through the course content as it would apply directly to you. Shall we do that now?”

Firstly, just check how many of the patterns we have already discussed are embedded in to these two sentences. As you read through them just notice how simple it is to integrate this sort of persuasive language in to your everyday life.

Secondly, are you also aware of the fact that the power of a NLP Practitioner course is completely presupposed in all of this, i.e. the question if this being useful for the prospect is never challenged, just whether they have realised it or not.

Here is something I might use in a training room. “It may seem like a complex subject, but as we start to go through the material and you learn some of the techniques you might already start to become aware of how easy this is to put into practice.” Having just read this paragraph and looked through some of the previous material you could have noticed already another pattern I use a lot in training called pacing and leading. This is a subject we will come back to next week as a way of getting agreement and buy in from an unconscious perspective. But for the moment just notice how easy it is to bring awareness patterns into your normal conversation.

Are you seeing how easy it is to start to think of examples for yourself? Here is a rapport building pattern for flirting, networking or anywhere you want to build more rapport.

Once you have a level of rapport and connection with someone you might say something like, “It’s been good to meet you and I don’t know if you have noticed how much rapport we have got. It just means we well get on even better when we….(meet again / start working together / wake up next to each other  etc. etc.)” This example contains a future pace statement which is something we will come back to in a couple of weeks.

How would this be for setting up a paranoia programme? “Have you noticed how much people are talking about you behind your back?”… “Oh, you haven’t noticed yet. Sorry, I’ve said too much. Just forget I mentioned it.”  And then walk away. I’m not serious about developing nasty patterns but I just wanted to share this with you to demonstrate how simple, quick and powerful this pattern can be.

Anyway have a look through this lesson again just to notice how much I have used this pattern. As you read through it and notice the patterns you will become more amazed at how simple it is to use and next week you will laugh at how much more power you can add when we discuss pacing and leading patterns.

Your homework as usual is to write out a half dozen patterns you can use and between now and next week go and say them to someone. Let go of any outcomes, just flap your gums at people with these new patterns. Remember build some rapport, speak a little slower and a little lower. As you get more used to talking and thinking in this way you will be amazed at how much more influence you have with people.

Until next week

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