NLP Books

Books from leading developers and trainers of Neurolinguistic Programming, published by Real People Press.

  • The best NLP books for learning neurolinguistic programming techniques.
  • NLP books for beginners all the way to advanced NLP practitioners.
  • Books for therapists, coaches, and your own personal development.
  • Both classic NLP books and new ones that keep moving the field forward.

Best Sellers and Most Loved Books

Easy-to-read and engaging, these books invite you to experience powerful methods for personal transformation.

Core Transformation: Reaching the Wellspring Within

Core Transformation is a 10-step process that transforms your life’s problems into healing experiences. The Core Transformation book is a great place to start when learning this powerful NLP process. Many people have just used the scripts in the book to transform their life’s biggest challenges, and others have used the book to get started before later taking a live training. The Core Transformation book has sold well over 50,000 copies since it was first published, with 4.7 stars on Amazon, and is translated into 16 languages.

 

Heart of the Mind: Engaging Your Inner Power to Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming

One of the best NLP books for beginners is Heart of the Mind. This classic NLP book tells engaging stories of people experiencing rapid change with a variety of NLP methods, and outlines the exact steps taken. Learn how NLP works by reading about some of the basic techniques, many of which were developed by Steve and Connirae Andreas. Each chapter covers a different topic, including negotiation, resolving grief, increasing motivation, and more. Every NLP practitioner should have a copy of this important NLP book. 4.6 stars on Amazon. As one reviewer said, “One of the most usable self-help books I’ve ever read.”

 

Coming to Wholeness: How to Awaken and Live with Ease

The Wholeness Work provides a direct method for resolving life’s problems in a very gentle way. Whether a person wants to transform anxiety, resolve shame, improve sleep, or work with many other life challenges, Wholeness Work can help. And it’s also a path to “awakening” that can enhance a spiritual practice, or even experience what is meant by “enlightenment” or “dissolving the ego.” Whether you’re interested in meditation and spirituality, or just want a practical way to solve problems that may have seemed intractable, Coming to Wholeness can provide you with the tools you need. 4.7 stars on Amazon.

 

Waltzing with Wolverines: Finding Connection & Cooperation with Troubled Teens

If you have a teenager in your life, you’ll love Waltzing with Wolverines. Based on Mark Andreas’ time working with groups of teens as part of a Wilderness Therapy program, these stories will touch and inspire you–and sometimes make you laugh. You may find yourself more creative and compassionate with the young people in your world. Whether the young people in your life are “easy” or “challenging,” this book can offer support and perspective. Parents with children of younger and older ages have also found this book a gold mine–and the methods here can even be used in other contexts. 4.9 stars on Amazon.

 

Transforming Negative Self-Talk and More Transforming Negative Self-Talk

These two books provide more than a dozen ways to radically change your self-talk, from inner critic to inner ally. Many people talk to themselves, in their mind, more harshly than they would ever talk to another person. Such negative self-talk is often present in mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression, as well as just ordinary needless life stress. Whether you are a beginner to NLP or an advanced practitioner, you will find many useful distinctions here that can serve you for a lifetime. Many other NLP techniques only use visual or kinesthetic distinctions, whereas these two books provide options in the auditory modality that you may never have thought of on your own. Stop ruminating and start living!

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Core Transformation

$15.69

By: Connirae Andreas and Tamara Andreas

This book will take you on a healing inner journey to the depths of your being. You’ll be guided through 10 simple… Read More

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Heart of the Mind

$16.50

By: Connirae Andreas and Steve Andreas

This engaging introduction to NLP gives you a “front row seat” in following the accounts of people whose lives… Read More

Connirae Andreas

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Steve Andreas

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Coming To Wholeness

$16.50

By: Connirae Andreas

A series of crises in the author’s life led her on an intensive search for solutions. The result is a new method of… Read More

Connirae Andreas

Author

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Waltzing with Wolverines

$14.95

By: Mark Andreas

In these pages you’ll find riveting stories illustrating clear principles for achieving success with even the… Read More

Mark Andreas

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Transforming Negative Self-Talk

$17.50

By: Steve Andreas

Hearing a judgmental or disapproving internal narrative is a very common mental health complaint, and… Read More

Steve Andreas

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More Transforming Negative Self-Talk

$17.95

By: Steve Andreas

Whether an infrequent occurrence or a constant running narrative, internal self-talk can be mildly irritating… Read More

Steve Andreas

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NLP Stories

Enjoy Learning Through The Magic Of A Story.

Sweet Fruit from The Bitter Tree

61 real-life short stories about how people creatively responded to violence and conflict. Most people think the only response is to fight back or freeze up, or maybe try and run away. But what if there was a different way? Having so many stories to draw upon can help you develop the kind of lateral thinking that allows for successful conflict resolution.

 

The Rainbow Machine

Hilarious, outrageous, and fascinating stories from NLP Practitioner Andrew T. Austin. Many of these stories come from Andy’s time as a nurse, using NLP “in the wild” with hospital patients and often getting interesting and powerful results. Read these stories and become inspired to be more bold and creative in your use of NLP!

 

Is There Life Before Death?

A collection of short stories, quotes, poems, essays from Steve Andreas. These are some “favorite stories” of one of the most effective and creative NLP developers. Funny, touching, and inspiring, these little vignettes will have you contemplating the deeper meaning of life and our place in the Universe. 

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Sweet Fruit From The Bitter Tree

$16.50

By: Mark Andreas

Enjoy these fascinating stories of how real people dealt with conflict situations in unusual and creative ways… Read More

Mark Andreas

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The Rainbow Machine

$16.50

By: Andrew T. Austin

A delightful read! Outrageous, funny, insightful, and touching. You’ll enjoy it from start to finish. Packed with … Read More

Andrew T. Austin

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Is There Life Before Death?

$19.00

By: Steve Andreas

This anthology is filled with short stories and essays, poems and quotes that can touch your heart, turn your … Read More

Steve Andreas

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Advanced and in-depth knowledge

Go deeper with your NLP skills and understanding.

Transforming Your Self

Learn how to change your self-concept, the beliefs you have about yourself and what kind of a person you are. Steve Andreas modeled how people create and modify their self-concept, allowing, for the first time, precise ways of adjusting it. This book will allow you to make powerfully generative changes, because when you change your self-concept many other things will follow naturally from that. Requires background in NLP*, especially NLP submodalities, as this method involves making many subtle distinctions in the visual modalities that make up our “database” of experiences.

*The book Heart of the Mind is one source for introductory material on NLP submodalities.



Virginia Satir: the Patterns of Her Magic

Pioneer of family therapy, Virginia Satir was known to be exceptionally skilled in helping families and individuals resolve “impossible” problems, and often quite quickly. How did she do it? In this unique book, Steve Andreas breaks down the patterns Satir used in a particularly powerful therapy session, so that others can also utilize her brilliant strategies for change.



Change Your Mind and Keep the Change: Advanced NLP Submodalities Interventions

In this classic NLP book, you’ll learn advanced NLP submodalities techniques. Includes methods for eliminating compulsive behaviors, responding to criticism resourcefully, hypnotically accessing “drug states” (without the drugs), and much more! It includes a method for changing how we perceive time (the original NLP Timeline work). Not recommended for beginners, as you may need some NLP experience to understand how to apply these advanced techniques.*

*The book Heart of the Mind is one source for introductory material on NLP submodalities.

 

Six Blind Elephants: Volumes 1 & 2

In these books, Steve Andreas re-works NLP from the ground up, based on contemporary breakthroughs in Cognitive Linguistics. This new understanding provides a “unified field theory” of human experience and communication that is practical and useful for making changes in our own lives, as well as for therapists and coaches who help others professionally. Filled with examples from expert therapists, these books were originally intended for advanced NLPers, but some people without NLP experience have found them invaluable as well.

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Transforming Your Self

$16.50

By: Steve Andreas

Discover what your identity is made of, how it functions, and how to use this knowledge to change how you think … Read More

Steve Andreas

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The Patterns Of Her Magic

$16.50

By: Steve Andreas

How did Virginia Satir, beloved family therapy pioneer & one of the greatest therapists of our time, help so … Read More

Steve Andreas

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Change Your Mind & Keep The Change

$12.16

By: Steve Andreas and Connirae Andreas

Presented in “live seminar” format, this book offers in-depth information and examples of how to work successfully… Read More

Steve Andreas

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Connirae Andreas

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Six Blind Elephants: Vol.1

$16.50

By: Steve Andreas

A truly ground-breaking new book that provides a practical and generative “unified field theory” of… Read More

Steve Andreas

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Six Blind Elephants: Vol. II

$16.50

By: Connirae Andreas and Steve Andreas

In this book, the fundamental understandings of scope, category, and logical levels established in… Read More

Steve Andreas

Author

Additional Resources

Other books Real People Press has published include works from NLP developers and trainers, plus authors with unique practical information to offer for enhancing our lives.

Solutions: Enhancing Love, Sex, and Relationships

This classic NLP book by NLP co-developer Leslie Cameron Bandler provides practical techniques for working with a variety of problems in relationships. From sexual dysfunction, marital problems, and falling in and out of love, you’ll find chapters on many problems you might encounter in your own relationships, or in the relationships of your clients if you work as a coach or therapist. Includes the powerful process for self-love “Looking through the eyes of someone who loves you.”

 

My Lessons with Kumi

In this unique and entertaining book, Michael Colgrass combines a variety of different modalities including neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis, mime, and Grotowski physical training in stories of personal transformation. Useful for learning how to perform with confidence, whether you are a public speaker, actor, musician, or teacher.

 

A Soprano on Her Head: Right-Side-Up Reflections on Life and Other Performances

This book has been extremely popular with musicians and music students, for it describes how to overcome musical performance anxiety and stage fright, as well as other challenges performers experience. The author teaches how to break out of negative habits with creative experimentation, freeing up energy for performing at your best in any context.

 

Returning to The Source: The Way to the Experience of God

This book by psychologist Wilsen Van Dusen offers a method for entering into mystical experience, based on the work of Swedish theologian Emanuel Swedenborg. The Experience of God is not something that even many religious people believe they have had, let alone secular people. But as Van Dusen explains, it is something accessible to all, by cultivating a feeling of awe and wonder through ordinary, simple experiences: the opening of a flower, an image in a dream, a sunset. By paying attention to such moments, we can amplify these feelings of awe, transforming our lives in the process.

 

Know How

In this classic NLP book, NLP developers Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon, and Michael Lebeau take on a variety of human problems and opportunities, laying out specific strategies for success. From eating healthy, exercising, fulfilling relationships, parenting, and more, you’ll learn about strategies that have worked for others and how to install them in your own nervous system.

 

The Emotional Hostage

This classic work in NLP has many useful distinctions for how to increase your emotional intelligence and develop emotional choice. If you’ve ever wanted more options with your emotions, the methods in this book can make a big difference. As one Amazon reviewer put it, “this book is significantly more insightful about understanding emotions” than other popular books on emotional intelligence.

 

The Emprint Method: A Guide to Reproducing Competence

This book is a classic work on NLP modeling, exactly how to learn what other people are doing in their minds so you can recreate it in yourself and others, fast. One of the core principles of NLP is that you can discover how other people do things exceptionally well, and with the distinctions of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, you can then reverse engineer their process. This allows for rapid skill development, since you don’t have to reinvent the wheel through trial and error. The EMPRINT Method is one modeling strategy that some of the early NLP developers used to create dozens of effective NLP techniques quickly. If you’re interested in NLP modeling, definitely check out this book!

Solutions

Solutions

$14.19

By: Leslie Cameron-Bandler

This is a book about fulfillment and choice. The practical and effective solutions presented in the following… Read More

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My Lessons with Kumi

$18.50

By: Michael Colgrass

Michael Colgrass combines neuro-linguistic programming, mime, creativity, hypnosis, psychology and… Read More

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Returning to the Source

$16.50

By: Wilson Van Dusen

How do some people find their way into the joys of mystical or transcendent experiences–the direct… Read More

Know-How

Know How

$16.50

By: Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon, Michael Labeau

Learn how to go from wishing to having–turning possibilities into realities. Learn the thinking processes… Read More

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The Emotional Hostage

$16.50

By: Leslie Cameron-Bandler, Michael Labeau

Often we feel trapped and at the mercy of emotions that we don’t want. This book teaches how to gain… Read More

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The Emprint Method

$16.50

By: Leslie Cameron-Bandler, David Gordon, Michael Labeau

This book is intended to change your mind about what is possible for you to achieve. By the time you finish the… Read More

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A Soprano on Her Head

$10.00

By: Eloise Ristad

Eloise Ristad deals with the complex problems which torment and cripple so many of our most creative… Read More

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