Relationships

The word relationship is derived from the Latin relates which means to bring back or restore, yet this term is most commonly used to refer to a state of connectedness between people; especially an emotional connection.

In Webster’s dictionary relationship refers to an aspect or quality that connects two or more things or parts as being or belonging or working together, or as being of the same kind. It is also defined as “the attitude or stance which two or more persons or groups assume towards one another”.

I’ve been thinking a lot about different relationships recently; when I first started to study NLP and Hypnosis I was amazed that there are people using these techniques and skills (some to an incredibly high degree) in some areas of their lives yet fail to utilise them in others. Thus creating incongruence between what they teach and how they behave.

I remember on my Practitioner training with McKenna Breen a decade or so ago, Michael Breen saying “there are people who talk the talk and others who walk the walk, when looking for further training make sure you choose someone who walks the walk”.

At the time I didn’t truly understand what he meant, until now ........................