• The first chakra is at the base of your spine and is connected with your physical survival.
• The second chakra is just below your navel and communicates about the state of your creativity, sexuality, and emotions.
• The third chakra is behind your solar plexus and relates to how you handle power and control issues.
• The fourth is your heart chakra. It illustrates who you are at a very deep level, as well as about your loving connections with others.
• The fifth chakra is the throat chakra, which governs how you communicate and whether you get psychic information through hearing.
• The sixth chakra -- commonly referred to as the third eye -- shows your level of clairvoyance.
• The seventh chakra -- the crown chakra -- at the crown of your head communicates about your connection with God, the universe, all that is, or whatever you like to call a higher power.

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which works with the structure of subjective experience. Since each person's subjective experience is unique, NLP emphasizes understanding what that particular experience is. Then the question becomes, what changes are desired in order to create a more helpful subjective experience.

NLP is a model -- a set of procedures whose usefulness, not truthfulness, is the measure of its worth. NLP offers specific tools which can be applied effectively in any situation. It offers specific techniques that a practitioner can use to help a client organize or re-organize his/her experience in order to define and achieve any behavioral outcome.

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