What is New Code NLP?

A key factor that differentiates the New Code to the Classic Code is the utilisation of the unconscious in selecting the resources to bring about the change.

New Code operating principles

Whereby in the Classic Code of NLP, the client consciously selects the resource, in the New Code a context is created where unconscious processes are utilised (with minimal conscious interference) to bring about the change.

The pattern that bridged the way for the New Code to emerge was the old six step reframe, the first NLP pattern to explicitly use an involuntary signal. Signal utilisation is one of many processes in the New Code which enables a client to connect directly with their unconscious mind.

Unconscious processes when properly organised and constrained produce deep, long term ecological changes circumventing the limitations of consciousness. New code corrects design flaws of the classic code.

The unconscious is explicitly involved in all critical steps. There are precise constraints placed upon the selection of new behavior(s) such that the new behaviors satisfy the original positive intentions of the behavior(s) to be changed.

The manipulation occurs at the level of state and intention as opposed to the level of behavior.

The New Code Change format

Experiences with these patterns of unconscious access seem to lead to what we now call the disciplined high performance state.  The new code change format induces the participant into a high performance state. In this state we are eschewing any expectations, freed of internal representations while attention is cleanly sensing contextual cues externally.

All response patterns are equally accessible releasing to the unconscious the right and responsibility to select one of many practiced patterns during periods of preparation. The ability to suspend conscious filters without losing the benefits of the preparation is an advantage in the development and deployment of a know-nothing state.

How it works

1. Select from 3rd position some context in which you would like a different quality of experience
2. Without attempting to change anything step into 1st position. See / hear / feel the situation.

Separator State (Break State)

3. Play the game (e.g., the alphabet game, the NASA game) to enter high performance state
4. At the end of the play (15 minutes or until the circuits are fully activated), the player without hesitation and most importantly without attempting consciously to influence the experience in any way steps back into the physical space where step 2 occurred the same physical space during step 2.

The New Code places an implicit emphasis upon neurological transforms (all the mappings that occur between stimulus/receptor contact and the point at which we gain first access, FA,) level of experience rather than all the transforms that occur subsequently referred to as linguistic transforms, F2.

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