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unconscious level Michael was responding to the right choices, even then.
While in London he learned
about Tony Robbins and NLP – and since the techniques he learned from books worked for him – he tried them on others, finding that they really helped them. It was a revelation to him when he learned a simple technique from Tony Robbins’ Unlimited Power that told him to “turn down the volume knob on the voice inside your head”. Michael recalls: “It got quiet. And the inside of my head hadn’t been quiet since I was 17 years old, and that was shocking to me!” Impressed by this “beautiful feeling” he remembers going on every course he could, borrowing money if he needed to, just to make it work.
Michael was clearly driven
by his instincts over what to do next. As he puts it: “When the inner voice wanted me to go left, I did.”
This was just the case as
his career in acting and in coaching developed side by side. He read up on Richard Bandler’s work and had a great realisation - “You can actually just talk to somebody and
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their life gets better.” That was when he trained fully as an NLP Practitioner, Master Practitioner, Trainer - and eventually became a master trainer, “totally hooked” on helping people.
As for how this success came to him, he says he certainly set goals, but “I really did have the goal life and then the real life was much, much better. And if I have a regret, it’s that I didn’t give up on the goals earlier because the real life was so organic. I never had to try, I never tried to succeed at NLP.” He explains: “It was just ‘Oh, here’s a person, can I help them? Oh, that didn’t work,
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Michael Neill in action
where can I learn what might?’” Luck played a part in Michael’s path, too. Paul McKenna used to come into a bookshop where Michael worked and they just got on. He sometimes asked Michael to come in and teach with him and Michael Breen. Later still Paul asked Michael to train alongside him and Richard Bandler. Michael speaks of Richard “the Godfather” of Self Help as somewhat daunting. But when he saw him signing the NLP certificates he was to hand out at his training, he came to really appreciate him: “I said to him: ‘You sign your own certificates?’ He looked at me... and said: ‘I don’t just sign them, I love them.’ He literally put energy into each signature.” Michael also kept evolving,
and eventually moved on from NLP as he learned new things. Learning has been
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Michael is on the road to somewhere
central to his life. He has also responded to his inner needs instinctively. So when he saw a BBC documentary about a dysfunctional autistic child whose family saved for two years to take him to the Option Institute in the US. “About a week into the documentary you see him get up in the middle of the night and make himself a bowl of scrambled eggs...” This was a transformation of a boy who couldn’t even tie his own shoelaces. Michael
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