MIND POWER

Last night I went to talk by John Kehoe's protégé Robin Banks.

The talk was about 'being happy' and I can honestly say that the talk was entertaining, thought provoking and motivational. Robin ended his talk by saying that motivational talks have a poor track record of lasting beyond the actual talk - they are typically feel good sessions.

I have not read the book Mind Power so it will be unfair of me to criticize the book, I will confine my critique to the Robin Banks presentation last night 5 September.

Whilst the talk was informative and convincing I feel Banks left the audience in the lurch; to be fair he did give 1 tool we could take away to help us achieve our objective of happiness. To this regard he speaks about responding to bad things with a dramatic "….. that is so fascinating!"

So in short I think the strategy he provided us with will once again amount to nothing but a feel good talk because putting the ideas in to practice is the crux, but he doesn’t equip us with tools to implement.

Now I may be unfairly critical because he speaks about a 4 week course which includes practical exercises.

I would like to suggest what I believe the talk is lacking in.

The subconscious mind is far stronger than the conscious mind, therefore the only way to develop a strategy of change is to work through the subconscious mind in conjunction with the conscious mind.

Here is where neuro linguistic programming (NLP) comes into the picture; working with just 1 mind is a waste of time as the self control and discipline required is beyond most of us. The way to effect change is to re-programme the way we think subconsciously together with conscious programming.

In conclusion if Robin Banks programme is combined with NLP I think people will walk away changed people FOREVER.