Product Description

In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a client. The newly revised version streamlines the patterns so that they are even more succinct and offers some new insights about how the patterns work, that is, the cognitive-behavioral mechanisms that make the neuro-linguistic and neuro-semantic approach so powerful.

The Sourcebook of Magic arose in 1997 from a desire to collect in one place the basic or core NLP Patterns. Today it remains an excellent resource for coaches, therapists, psychologists, trainers, and managers. The book uniquely sorts and separates the patterns in key categories, those that deal with Self, Emotions, Languaging, Thinking Patterns, Meaning, and Strategies. This Sourcebook of Magic also provides guidelines for knowing what to do when and why. An excellent gift for those interested in the cognitive-behavioral model called NLP.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40934 in Books
• Published on: 2004-11-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 383 pages

David Slater, The Hypnotherapist, April 1005
.. a book worthy of a place on the bookshelf where it can be regularly dipped into.

The Milton H Erickson Foundation Newsletter, Winter 2006
.. a reference book I highly recommend for developing better
resources in one's self and in others.

Synopsis
In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a client. The newly revised version streamlines the patterns so that they are even more succinct and offers some new insights about how the patterns work, that is, the cognitive-behavioral mechanisms that make the neuro-linguistic and neuro-semantic approach so powerful. The Sourcebook of Magic arose in 1997 from a desire to collect in one place the basic or core NLP Patterns. Today it remains an excellent resource for coaches, therapists, psychologists, trainers, and managers. The book uniquely sorts and separates the patterns in key categories, those that deal with Self, Emotions, Languaging, Thinking Patterns, Meaning, and Strategies. This Sourcebook of Magic also provides guidelines for knowing what to do when and why. An excellent gift for those interested in the cognitive-behavioral model called NLP.

Customer Reviews

An Excellect Reference Guide
The Sourcebook of Magic is more of a reference book that is best suited to augmenting other NLP works. At 380 pages it is comprehensive and if you're serious about NLP should definitely be on your book shelf, but I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point. It would be very difficult to apply the techniques in this book without reading the more accessible works on NLP. If you know what an NLP change pattern is, you should probably buy this book, if not, I'd go for NLP - The Technology of Achievement.

Great reference book but not for beginners
I actually proof-edited the second edition of the book and really enjoyed reading again the numerous patterns collected together in one place. However, these are outlines of patterns that work in 'perfect scenerios' in my opinion and NLP is far too powerful to be messed around with using step by step guidance when you don't know what to do if something goes wrong. For example, I know of someone who, after using the timeline material (from another book) became sucidally depressed after loosing his future time line! I also know that given the working of meta-states you can understand why someone starts crying when you ask them to access happy experiences but not necessarily when you know just NLP. Don't get me wrong - I shall be reading this excellent refresher in preparation for my trainers training BUT I do not reccomend it for learning NLP per se. Go on a course or read Introducing NLP by John Seymour and O'Connor. Then get together in a practice group with a more experienced practitioner.

Not what I expected
This may be due to my own ignorance of the subject, and perhaps people more familiar with NLP knew exactly what to expect.

I thought it would be a description of metaprograms and how to identify these patterns in yourself and other people. Instead it reads like a sort of hynotherapy handbook, providing scripts that are apparently useful in therapy for changing unwanted behaviours.

Even assuming this is what you want (a series of hypnotherapy-type behaviour change scripts), there's a lot of repetition from one script to the next. I'd've thought the could've been truncated by about 200 pages if he replaced them with a single, "fill in the blank" type script, with a table telling you what to put in the blanks for particular behaviours.