The first ever review of a Nick Kemp product - Adventures of Well Being Now
I met Nick at the Bandler/McKenna-Breen training in London this spring. Although I was trying to meet as many interesting people as possible, I still spent most breaks between training in Nick's pleasant company. He sent me this CD to review and, while I was expecting it to be good, I'm quite in awe of just how good it is.
To describe this CD as a guided meditation probably won't give you much of an idea of what it is like. But it is not like any NLP CD that I have heard.
The advantage of having CDs is of course that you can benefit from repeated listenings. Now certain patterns do not work well for this e.g. pattern interrupts. What does work well is ambiguous change-inducing process language, and Nick's CD has exactly 64 minutes of this.
But the first thing I noticed is that the musical accompaniment is actually good. I know that a lot of what constitutes musical preference is what you're used to but I don't have time to write an essay so either take my word for it or don't ;) I would describe the style as slow synthesised Aztec/industrial and really helps to induce states of a theme that Nick has intended.
Nick's voice is very distinctive -- smooth yet forceful and slightly husky. This ensures that he's at least hovering on the edge of your conscious awareness, no matter where you're drifting. But most of the CD is aimed at your unconscious. This CD has sounded better each time I've listened and even the last (4th) time I hear things that I swear I've never heard before. Nick often redirects your attention away from what he's actually saying (or at least what you think he's saying). The combined effect works incredibly well. It is almost as if Nick's voice, his music, your awareness and your unconscious mind are doing a dance together.
I've been in some pretty nice trance states, both uptime and downtime, all very pleasant and interesting especially the full-blown hallucinations.
But this is not just indulgent fantasy. I've always maintained that appreciation is a skill and one of the most important we have. Nick teaches you to better appreciate yourself and your surroundings - whatever you happen to be doing and wherever you happen to be. Since everything you do is dependent on your state of mind you might start to wonder how much something like this could be worth to you.
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