PRINCIPLES
 

2.     My mind and my body are one: what affects one affects the other and any separation is artificial.

3.     I simultaneously communicate consciously and unconsciously.
 

4.     I continuously process information through all my senses.
 

5.     Whatever the context, I represent any experience I live, remember and imagine in sensory terms (seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting, self-talk, etc.)

6.     To best recognise your responses my sensory channels need to be open and “clean”.
 

7.     The only information I have of you is what you say and do (and vice-versa).
 

8.     There is a positive intention behind anything I think, feel, say or do and a context where this has value.
 

9.     Whatever I think, feel, say or do at any one time is the best choice I am aware I can make within my current model of the world.

10.         Like everybody else, I want to succeed: it’s just that I don’t always know or am clear what it is I really want to succeed at, and how.

11.         What I think, feel, say or do is not who I am.
 

12.         While you can question the value and appropriateness of what I think, feel, say or do, my positive worth is constant.

13.         You can accept me as a person and help me to change what I think, feel, say or do, if that’s what I want.

14.         I operate from my internal maps of reality rather than from the reality itself.
 

15.         Changing the way I experience reality is more useful than changing the content of my experience of reality.

16.         The map is not the territory: my model of the world is not the world.
 

17.         The words I use are not what they represent: they’re just words.
 

18.         To effectively communicate with you I need to respect your model of the world.
 

19.         To be in rapport with you I must meet you in your model of the world.
 

20.         The meaning of my communication is the response that I get from you.
 

21.         I am fallible and that’s OK, because it means I am able to improve what I think, feel, say or do.
 

22.         Whether or not I achieve what I want in a given context, whatever I think, feel, say or do is an achievement.

23.         When the response I get from my communication is not the one I expected, it’s because I wasn’t flexible enough in formulating it, either to myself or to you.

24.         I never fail in my communicating, I only receive feedback.
 

25.         It is up to me to make use of this feedback in the way which serves me best.
 

26.         I have within me everything I need to achieve any desired change: I may just not be aware of it.
 

27.         I am never unresourceful: I am only in unresourceful states.
 

28.         It is when I am most flexible that I am best able to achieve what I want.
 

29.         Anything I do should enable me to increase my flexibility and my awareness of available choices.
 

30.         If you can think, feel, say or do something, so can I.
 

31.         By modeling you I can become as good at whatever you do as you are.
 

32.         I can only evaluate what I think, feel say or do and how I change in terms of context and consequences.

33.         If I or you suffer in any way when I achieve something, what I seek to achieve is not ‘ecological’.
 

34.         When I formulate what I want in ecological terms, I can create an optimal outcome where everyone benefits: this is synergy.

35.         By making my outcomes ecological I create synergy.
 

36.         I am in charge of my mind, and therefore of my results.