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Magic in Action Paperback – June 1, 1992

by Richard Bandler (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars 41
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Magic In Action shows the ways in which I use humor and speed to work with clients. It gives the layman an idea of what an NLP session should be like. I constatly joke with clients about their poblems in order to cure them of seriousness, which is what locks the model down. You get serious, you get stuck. Humor is the fastest way to reverse this process. As soon as you can laugh about something, you can change it.
And change doesn't need to be slow or painful. If you can learn to create something as sophisticated as a phobia, fear or compulsion, you can learn to use the same ability to do something different in the same situations. - Richard Bandler
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    English
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    Meta Pubns
  4. Publication date
    June 1, 1992
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  6. ISBN-10
    0916990141
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0916990145
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Dr. Richard Bandler has been a fountain of creativity for 25 years, the techniques he has created are used in our schools and by almost every major corporation. He created Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Design Human Engineering. Dr. Bandler has authored some 25 books and is translated in over 40 languages. Over the past twenty-five years he has lectured and taught seminars to over a million people around the world including the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Meta Pubns; New edition (June 1, 1992)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 220 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0916990141
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0916990145
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.05 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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Richard Bandler’s seminars & workshops include Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning®, Design Human Engineering®, Persuasion Engineering®, Personal Enhancement™, Charisma Enhancement®, Hypnosis, and others!

Dr. Bandler has continued to improve and evolve the field of NLP and gone on to develop other seminars as well, Design Human Engineering®, Persuasion Engineering®, Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning® to name a few.

He has been interviewed by a variety of magazines from Psychology Today to Newsweek. Most major newspapers, TV Networks and Radio Stations around the world have interviewed him over the past 30+ years.

Dr. Bandler, a mathematician, philosopher, modeler, teacher, artist and composer for four decades has left a legacy of books, videos, audios, art, students and a body of knowledge that will change therapy, education and medicine forever. He has hundreds of thousands of students and hundreds of licensed institutes all over the world.

Dr. Bandler has made his mark and says he is just getting warmed up.

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I bought the Kindle version and I’m very disappointed. I’m sure this book is good but the digital copy is just someone taking photos of each page. There’s paragraphs and pages missing, and the print is small and hard to read. It becomes distorted if you try to enlarge it. This should not be available on Kindle. What a waste of money!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2022
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NATALIE
5.0 out of 5 stars Many thanks again. Natalie
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2013
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Iam enjoying reading Bandler. It is a whole new concept; and very helpful for sorting myself out, and helping others.
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Good Read for learning how Bandler does his magic
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Joergen Rasmussen
5.0 out of 5 stars If you could read only one nlp book make it Magic In Action
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2020
After seeing clients professionally for 23 years and having read most of the books on nlp out there I have concluded that this is my favorite. Make sure to combine reading the book With watching the Marshall University Tapes where the actual Client sessions transcribed in the book are shown. Bandler works for 30 minutes With Three different Clients and they are interviewed 8 months later. The superb display of skills, combined With commentary and actual follow up With real Clients make this book a classic.
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Tara Lane
1.0 out of 5 stars Don’t buy through Kindle!
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2020
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I bought the Kindle version and I’m very disappointed. I’m sure this book is good but the digital copy is just someone taking photos of each page. There’s paragraphs and pages missing, and the print is small and hard to read. It becomes distorted if you try to enlarge it. This should not be available on Kindle. What a waste of money!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2020
I bought the Kindle version and I’m very disappointed. I’m sure this book is good but the digital copy is just someone taking photos of each page. There’s paragraphs and pages missing, and the print is small and hard to read. It becomes distorted if you try to enlarge it. This should not be available on Kindle. What a waste of money!
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Introduction is worth the price of admission!
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 1998
This is an excellent book for anyone wanting an inside view of a master utilizing NLP(tm) in action. These are actual working transcripts of Richard Bandler the co-founder of the NLP(tm)technology doing work with patients. Within the pages you'll encounter him literally performing magic in terms of creating transformational change with private clients. This book is unlike others by either Bandler or Grinder (the other co-founder of NLP(tm). All of the other books available by these authors are taken either from training transcripts or written as training manuals, in this one the transcripts are from one to one sessions with Richard himself. These transcripts are packed with information. You'll find him utilizing hypnosis, reframing, anchoring, and all the other NLP(tm)techniques you've heard of while continually pacing and leading the client he's addressing. As Richard suggests in the introduction you could re-read this book for each of these patterns and come away with a deeper, fuller and richer appreciation of the model each time you do. In a way you could almost learn to do NLP(tm) from this book alone, however this is not what either I or Richard would recommend. As Bandler writes in the introdution to this edition, NLP(tm) is an experiential model and the way to really "get it" is to work with someone who is really skilled in its application. Within this same introduction Richard uncovers his own thinking about the model he calls NLP(tm) better than any other place that I've read. This description alone is worth the price of the book if what's offered is really assimilated. I would of given it a 10 however there are some sections within it that really bog down and could have been improved with better editing ... then again ... What I recommend is that if your interested in the direct applicaton of NLP(tm) as a transformation technology go ahead buy it, read it and enjoy it!
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Magy
4.0 out of 5 stars Magic in Action
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2011
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It is the dialog of Richard Bandler's therapeutic sessions with his clients. A knowledge of the techniques would help to understand the book better. Overall a good book.
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Karl
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the KEY NLP texts
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2002
You could say that this is a book in six chapters, plus an introduction and one appendix - the former is taken of an interview with Bandler in 1990, the latter covers the NLP "Milton Model" in some depth.
Excited?
You would be if you knew what is in those six chapters!
According to the back cover blurb (taken from the Introduction):
"*Magic in Action* shows the ways in which I use humour and speed to work with clients. It gives the layman an idea of what an NLP session should be like."
Basically this is a set of trancescripts (pun intended) of Richard Bandler doing brief therapy the NLP way. They cover topics such as a rather unusual form of agoraphobia, fear of authority figures, weight loss, changing limiting beliefs, etc.
More than that, however, they show Bandler using many of the core NLP techniques to facilitate lasting changes, typically in less than 30 minutes.
An additional feature of the first three sessions is that they are taken from a project at Marshall University, West Virginia, and in two cases include a brief follow-up interview that took place about 8 months after the therapy session.
(Only two, because in one case Richard and his client went straight out and demonstrated that the client's agoraphobia had already completely disappeared.)
As the previous reviewer has said, this is a book that will bear, indeed requires, several readings to get the most out of it. Bandler himself (or was it the unnamed editor?) recommends that, after having read the whole book, you start again, annotating each transcript in the same way that the final chapter has already been analysed, to better understand how Bandler has used various linguistic patterns to achieve his results.
Seems like a pretty good idea to me.
The book gives some interesting insights into the attitude, motivation and practice of the originator of NLP. At the same time, though Bandler certainly isn't prepared to spoonfeed his readers, it is as good a teaching tool as any book could ever be.
If you're serious about NLP, this book is a definite 'must read'.
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JETHANDS
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2020
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Ahmed
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for those who want to move their NLP skills to the next level
Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2014
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I have been practising NLP for over a year now and I am tired of reading books about NLP that have the same things again and again. It is different with this book though. It is scripts for some cases with Richard Bandler that thought by many impossible but he did fix them in one session.

What you get with this books:
Full script for more than one case
Notes. Like what Richard is doing right now and why is he doing that

If you are new in NLP, I do not suggest you jump to this book, but if you have been in NLP for a while then this book is a must to read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Provokes thinking
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2018
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2016
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CB
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2015
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