Neuro Linguistic Programming

322 Part V: Integrating Your Learning

Table 20-2 The Effects of Change on Your Logical Levels

Logical Level Insights What You Can Do to Facilitate the Change

Identity

Values and

beliefs

Capabilities

and skills

Behaviour

Environment

Identifying the strongest level for change

Depending on your journey and circumstance, changing one of the logical

levels may have the greatest impact on what you’re trying to achieve.

Tom was highly ambitious but found himself living a life of mediocrity; he was

extremely frustrated and blamed everyone and everything for his bad luck. In

fact, he was lucky to have a manager who engaged a coach to work with Tom.

During a coaching session that involved a time-line exercise, Tom discovered

that he was carrying a lot of emotions around the death of his mother when

he was 11 years old. He realised he had very deep-seated beliefs around life

being unfair and him being unlucky. Doing some work on his time line (see

Chapter 13) to let go of limiting beliefs worked at the level of Tom’s beliefs and

changed his life dramatically.

When Tom shifted his beliefs around the unfairness of life and reviewed his

sense of being unlucky, he discovered that his identity shifted from that of a

person who saw himself as a victim to someone who was successful. He felt

brave enough to ask to go on a management training programme (capabilities

and skills) and he engaged his manager and colleague to share ideas

(behaviour), which was something he’d felt too fearful of doing in the past.

Although you may need to strengthen a level, perhaps by adding new skills,

or redecorating your office, you may find that you need to remove something

too. For example, if you’re always late for meetings, you may need to improve

your time-management techniques but, more importantly, you may have to

remove unconscious, emotional blocks, causing the unhelpful behaviour, as in

Tom’s case.