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Let me tell you a story.

I know I’ve been blessed.  When I started learning NLP, I flat out struck it lucky – and it wasn’t until many years afterwards that I came to fully appreciate just how fortunate I had been.  Because as much as this story involves my own personal experiences, it doesn’t start with any amazing discoveries on my part.  It pretty much starts with me blindly stumbling into the path of a guy called Roger Deaner – an extraordinary teacher who later became one of my mentors.

Now, since you’ve probably never heard of him before, let me paint you a picture.  First of all, there was a great big gaping generation gap between us.  The guy was old enough to be my dad.  As he liked to put it, he was “chronologically advantaged.”

Secondly, although he was an expat who had spent close to half of his life in Australia, he was incurably British.  Called the rest of us Aussies ‘colonials.’

Thirdly, he was one of the most sensationally skilled NLP Trainers I’ve ever seen – and I’ve seen a few, including both co-creators of the field, several leading ‘name brand’ developers and a couple dozen others.  He was unquestionably a master of his craft.

So it’s the late 90s and I’ve just started learning NLP.  And here’s this guy Roger, and there’s just something about him.

It’s not just that he had some great NLP skills.  It went further than that.

No, not further – deeper.

He seemed to have an almost supernaturally deep insight into the core of human nature and human relationships.

And I’m not talking submodalities and metaprograms and neurological strategies – you know, all those fantastic and jargon-infested ways of dissecting human experience.  Did he know all that stuff?  Sure.  Hell, the guy was an NLP rock star.  But there was always something beyond that: a profound understanding of people – all kinds of people – and their deepest needs, yearnings and motivations.

He just fundamentally got people.  And not just intellectually.  Anybody can spout references to stuff they found in a book somewhere.  It’s like it was in his bones.

And this translated into some extraordinary skills:

• He had a gift for knowing exactly what kind of shift in consciousness was needed to dramatically change someone’s experience – and how to make that happen.
• He had an almost scary ability to completely ‘nail’ what someone was thinking – and to change how they thought about it – before they ever said a word.
• Where lots of folks are great at getting on with people, he had an effortless knack for getting in with people, which is a whole different kettle of fish.  And he could get in with anybody – from blue chip CEOs to angel intuitive therapists to ‘rough as guts’ ex-cons.  All social worlds were open to him.
• … and I won’t even tell you about some of his other crazy psychic ninja skills, because you probably wouldn’t believe me anyway.

So throughout my time with Roger I learned a lot about NLP, but I learned a lot of other stuff as well.  Because it turned out that much of his magic came from the fact that he had made a study of what a person’s body can tell you about their values, beliefs and attitudes – and how to use your own body as a gateway into totally different ways of experiencing the world.

And I’m here to tell you that what he came up with was sensational stuff.  It was nothing short of a revelation.

… BUT …

The bastard was so intuitive by this stage that he only ever mapped the most basic elements of this extraordinary discovery.  Just the simplest and most obvious stuff.  And human beings can be complex critters sometimes.  You may have noticed.

So even though he was effortlessly adept at understanding and dancing with those complexities, he never explicitly mapped a way of navigating them.  And between you and me, that bugged the hell out of me.  This stuff was way too valuable not to develop further!

So I rolled my sleeves up and spent the next few years refining, developing and extending what he had started. And the result is Spiral Somatics.

And I’m still going.

In all the years that I’ve been exploring this stuff I still haven’t found the edges.  The implications of this material are profound, and the applications are flat out endless.

… and I totally understand that “endless” doesn’t really give you much detail.  So how about I just go ahead and give you the low-down on just a few of the ways in which learning this stuff can make a serious difference in your world – and in your business.