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This document discusses the concepts of "uptime" and "downtime" from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It explains that uptime refers to observing the outside world using our senses, while downtime means accessing our internal thoughts and representations. The document encourages taking time for uptime, such as focused meditation on our surroundings, and notes that truly listening in conversation involves uptime to understand others based on their words and body language, rather than our internal responses.

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Richard Bandler 2

This document discusses the concepts of "uptime" and "downtime" from Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It explains that uptime refers to observing the outside world using our senses, while downtime means accessing our internal thoughts and representations. The document encourages taking time for uptime, such as focused meditation on our surroundings, and notes that truly listening in conversation involves uptime to understand others based on their words and body language, rather than our internal responses.

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It isn't possible to observe someone (with all

SYSOP'S NOTE: I would be remiss in my senses) when we're accessing. It isn't possible
duties if I failed to tell you that this is from to achieve rapport with a person we're not
PANEGYRIA volume 2, number 8, and was observing. One of the bases of magical group
downloaded from Earthrite BBS (415-651- workings is rapport between the participants.
9496). PANEGYRIA costs $8 per year, and their Try this: the next time you have a
address is Box 85507, Seattle, WA 98145. conversation about magic, observe
Enjoy! - Talespinner, Sysop WeirdBase your partner. Watch for: body position and
---------------------------------------------------- gestures. Often people I talk to demonstrate
what they feel when they do magic. [A woman
NLP: APPLIED MAGIC describing her circle method moved her hand
by Brandy Williams from her forehead down toward her feet, from
shoulder to shoulder, and from her heart
TWO: Inside/Outside straight in front of her - gesturing the three
energy poles a circle creates.]
Remember representational systems? The Listen for: sensory descriptions - "I saw, I
idea that humans think in images, sounds, and heard, I felt."
feelings? Learning to go into uptime at will, and
While we're calling up images (a process differentiate our representations of reality from
called accessing), we're not able to look at our observations, is perhaps the most useful
what's going on in front of us. While we're magical skill we can possess. It provides the
listening to music, we're not able to remember basis for a reality check; it helps us
our favorite song. While we're feeling our communicate our experiences more effectively
shoulders for tension, we're not aware of the to others, and to help them duplicate what we
touch of cloth against our skin. Seeing with the do; and it is one of the most profound
mind's eye and the physical eye are mutually alterations of conasciousness.
exclusive processes.
In Neuro Linguistic Programming, accessing - - Brandy Williams
thinking - is called downtime, and obersving
with the senses is labelled uptime. BIBLIOGRAPHY
I run uptime as a meditation. Try this: for Works by Richard Bandler & John Grinder:
three minutes, look at the colors in front of you, The Structure of Magic I
the textures of surfaces, shapes; listen to the The Structure of Magic II
volume and pitch of all sounds in your vicinity; Frogs to Princes
feel the surface you're sitting on, your hand Reframing
touching something in front of you. Trance-formations
The next time you generate an internal
image, talk to yourself, feel your stomach
tightening - notice the difference. It's the
difference
between accessing and observing, downtime
and uptime, external and internal reality.
One thing that I notice about uptime is that it
links to the concept 'sacred'. When I take a
walk by the river, I watch the water rippling
over rocks, listen to the white noise of the
current, feel the moist air touching my skin. I
bring myself out of my own internal creations
and allow myself to live in the world.
Another thing I notice about uptime is that
some people don't do it very much. Most of us
drop into internal reality when our environment
is unpleasant, and that's a very useful thing to
be able to do. But then a lot of people forget to
come back out - come to their senses, literally -
and experience the world again.
Such people are very difficult to talk to. When
I have a conversation, I like my partner to be
listening to what I say, and watching my body
language. More often, my partner is accessing
some internal meaning for, or response to, what
I'm saying. That internal meaning may or may
not have anything to do with what I'm
communicating.

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