1. Learning Guitar - An Ideal NLP Accelerated Learning Situation
Playing a musical instrument requires the application of knowledge and skills in a real time
environment. As such it is a great context to learn NLP and Accelerated Learning skills.
Consider the actions need to play a guitar. If you are improvising you need to listen to the rest of the
band and with your knowledge decide the best place to put your figures. Or if you are reading the
music you have to translate the dots and lines on sheet music to positions on the guitar as well as
consider expression and emotion. You are doing all of this in real time with no pause, hesitation or
break in the flow.
Learning music is a perfect environment for NLP Techniques. Many people have preconceived
notions about music. It is difficult, you need talent and reading music is complex. These preconceived
ideas and beliefs are often not helpful.
Deliberately braking down limiting beliefs whilst building up new and empowering ones is a great way
of starting with music. A classic example of this is Duncan Lorien's powerful Understanding of Music
Seminar. Duncan has built in to the course ways of challenging old beliefs and installing those beliefs
that make learning music much easier.
Another area worth looking at is practice routines. This is something that musicians often don't help
themselves. Only PERFECT practice makes perfect so finding the right drills and routines is
important. They should be enough to stretch and challenge without being so difficult that you can''
play without hesitation and stumbling.
A typical scenario for a guitarist might be stumbling over a section of a new piece of music they are
learning. They might start to criticise themselves installing unhelpful beliefs and emotions along the
way. They might then overplay that little section until they can play it perfectly...but then have trouble
fitting it back into the rest of the piece.
Celebrating the fact you have found a development area for your fingers and turning the whole thing
in to a new set of finger exercises would be a true NLP Accelerated Learning approach. Playing the
section at different speeds, in different keys and all over the fret board would develop flexibility and
turned a problem in to a huge piece of muscle learning.
If you understand how Accelerated Learning works you can break down any key skills and develop
exercises that rapidly develop the skill. On the Understanding of Music Seminar Duncan Lorien has
done exactly that and he gives his graduates 100 ten minute daily lessons that will dramatically
improve your guitar playing. A good NLP Practitioner Course will show you how to break down skills
and develop exercises from them that can really accelerate your learning.
Breaking limiting beliefs and focusing on developing good practice routines are just a couple of ideas
that can help with developing a new skill really fast. A good NLP Training will give you many more
insights in to accelerated learning.
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