NLP through stories - story 50

A king once wanted to weigh his royal elephant.
Yet could not do because no weighing machine was available.
Though he sought the advice of wise counsels  none could offer a solution.
A young boy came to know of the desire of the king & said he could show a way. 
He was taken to the king.
The boy gave his idea - 
'First put the elephant in a boat in a water tank. 
Due to weight the boat will sink. 
Mark the water level on the wall of the boat . 
Then alight the elephant..
Now start filling the boat with bricks till the boat sinks upto the mark .
Thereafter take the bricks & weigh conveniently. 
The total weight will be the weight of the elephant."
The king was amazed.at the brilliance of the boy.  

The learning from the story is 'even a mammoth task can be accomplished 
if made into convenient components. 
There is also a saying on  elephant -- "how to eat an elephant?  A bite at a time"
This bit sized approach is called CHUNKING in NLP 
When you chunk down you are able to be more & more specific to deal with the situation.
Difficulties when you chunk down diminishes.
Positives when you chunk down intensifies. 
Also chunking up helps to you to collaborate with people. 
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NLP through stories - story 49

Thousands of years ago on a battlefield of Kurushethra  in India, Arjuna, the young warrior prince of the Pandavas, is leading his army in a great  war against Kauravas, who have unjustly usurped his kingdom. 

As the forces gather on the eve of the ultimate battle, he rides out with his charioteer, the god Krishna, to survey the enemy. 

There in the middle of the battlefield he sees that the Kaurava’s army arrayed against him includes his own relatives, teachers, friends, and loved ones.

Suddenly overcome with self-doubt and confusion, he calls out to Krishna to stop his chariot, saying he is unable to fight.

Krishna does all his best to convince Arjuna to fight, the result of which is the song celestial called   ‘Srimad  Bagavad Gita’ ,   in 18 chapters, 700 stanza ,

Arjuna says, “Krishna ! Whatever you say I understand; yet my heart is not convinced; my mind does not get the strength “

Sri Krishna then takes his ‘VISWAROOPA’  -turns himself into a vision of magnificence and power beyond imagining.  Seeing this magnificence Arjuna  gets convinced and agrees to fight.

The learning from this event is that Arjuna gets his dilemma after 'seeing'  the army of enemies; 

equally Arjuna gets convinced after seeing the magnificence & power of Sri Krishna; 

even after 'hearing' Sri krishna's wise suggestion Arjuna gets 'feeling' only after seeing.

Some prefer to see to understand ( V)
some prefer to hear to understand (A)
some prefer to experience or feel to understand (K)

We each have a preferred representational system.
For some of us it is visual, (V)
for others it is kinesthetic (K), and
for others it is auditory. (A)

In order to make some one understand better,
if we can present the matter in their preferred mode,
the job is done easily . 

V-A-K  is Value Adding Knowledge
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NLP through stories -- story 48

A very old lady looked in the mirror one morning. 
She had three remaining hairs on her head, and being a positive soul, 
she said, "I think I'll braid my hair today." 
So she braided her three hairs, and she had a great day. 

Some days later, looking in the mirror one morning, preparing for her day, 
she saw that she had only two hairs remaining.
 "Hmm, two hairs... I fancy a centre parting today." 
She duly parted her two hairs, and as ever, she had a great day.

A week or so later, she saw that she had just one hair left on her head.
"One hair huh...," she mused, "I know, a pony-tail will be perfect." 
And again she had a great day. 
The next morning she looked in the mirror. 
She was completely bald. 
"Finally bald huh," she said to herself, 
"How wonderful! I won't have to waste time doing my hair any more.."


The story talks of attitude; it is very apparent. yes positive attitude.
NLP says "it is not what happens in life but what you do with what happens that makes the difference'.
NLP talks of state management.
To be in resourceful state of mind is important to make the best out of any situation.
Our response to life situation is based on the meaning we give to every situation.
If we give a 'positive' meaning then we exhibit a positive response;
we regain & remain in an empowering state of mind.
One way of giving  'positive' meaning is REFRAMING ..
meaning reframing empowers us in spite of apparent disappointments.
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NLP through stories -story 47

A king went to a spiritual guru and placed before him in a bundle all his property and
pleaded he was shown the way to ANANDHA ( joy peace ) in lieu of his property.
The guru all of  sudden grabbed the bag and started running away from the scene.
The  king was shocked by the strange behavior of the guru;
he mistook the guru for an ordinary man and felt bad he approached a fake guru..
The king started chasing the guru and was keen on getting the bag back. 
but the guru gave a tough time to the king; the king could not catch the guru.
Tired exhausted he was about to give up with a great discontent,
when the guru stopped   and handed over the bag to the king;
Receiving the bag, the king felt relieved of worry and felt extremely happy.
Now the guru said, " you have your ANANDHA now ?" 
The king said, " yes" 

The great lesson from the story is very obvious. 
The joy was already with the king;
he did not know how to realize that;
he wanted to trade for joy happiness  & peace.    

The guru made him realize that by a process apparently misleading or confusing,
yet gave what the king was looking for.

Equally NLP says "People already have all the resources they need"
NLP helps you to realize that by a process that may appear to be 'illogical' crazy funny.
yet if one goes by the process one can surely get.
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