NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
is about the study of subjective reality. This is how we create
our internal representations of reality which is what is real
for us. NLP is about methods
and techniques that provide more positive outcomes or enhanced
outcomes than were previously there. Everybody already knows
how to do some things well, and those are the resources that
can be used or applied to other areas for making a positive
change.
What is NLP?
(Neuro Linguistic Programming)
NLP started out in the early
seventies primarily as the study of excellence in Human Behavior.
The initial question was about how to understand the difference
between somebody who is competent about something and someone
who is able to excel at something. This study of Subjective
Reality and the Modeling of Excellence opened up a new doorway
into human possibilities. Two men are at the forefront of
the initial studies which has since blossomed into multiplied
thousands of skilled students and practitioners all across
the world. The first two were John Grinder a Linguistics Professor
and Richard Bandler, a Mathematician, musician and Computer
Scientist.
That first question on excellence were the studies of people
who were know to operate in very excellent ways such as Milton
Erickson, Virginia Satir, and Fritz Perls all of which were
recognized for their pivotal knowledge and excellence in the
field of therapy. Those studies opened the doorway to discovering
their Internal Representations engendered a model to understand
how we as humans perceive the world, how we organize our thinking,
feeling, skills and behaviors.
These initial studies have in many ways changed the way new
possibilities for how we can more effectively understand people
in every area. Areas including: Therapy, Business, Sports,
Learning, Relationships and Life.
The ‘Neuro’ acknowledges
the fact that we process information about the world neurologically,
using the brain and the nervous system, through our five senses:
sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell.
‘Linguistic’ refers to the verbal language
that we use to communicate with each other both intrinsically
and extrinsically with our internal thoughts and our external
‘body language’.
‘Programming’
relates to the ‘programs’ or patterns of
behavior we all demonstrate: it’s the internal yet unconscious
strategy that we use as we organize our thoughts and our behaviors
in producing our outcomes.
NLP is about how we work
as a whole new paradigm of thinking. It is about helping
people make effective and empowering change and to enhance
peak states of performance. It is a set of guiding principles,
attitudes, knowledge, skills, techniques and a sort of magic
in how greatly it enhances our human possibilities.
NLP offers you some of
the most powerful communication skills available. Much of
our success in life depends on our ability to communicate
effectively to others and within our selves.
NLP provides a beacon light
that can enable you to uncover, change and transform old
behaviors and present interferences into new and resourceful
beliefs and successful behaviors. It can move you to make
positive and far reaching changes that will affect your
life in positive ways and can usually do it in a quicker
and more elegant manner than most anything else has been
able to do.
NLP is built around the
idea that all thought, belief and behavior is inseparable
from our neurology (Neuro). The way we recognize it and
stabilize it is with language (Linguistics) and the internal
strategies we use, the sequence of mind/body events is the
(Programming). Learning and knowing how this works for you
and others gives you a set of immensely price and powerful
tools for more effective and precise outcomes.
The human brain and the body are inseparable
and operate very much like a mega-computer. Using information
that is programmed into it through life experiences and the
adapted behaviors created in each moment, it will operate
or react with the same adapted responses until the original
programming is replaced.
It is widely known that the majority of all our dominate programming
has already happened in the formative years of 0 to 6 years
old. Although we don’t want to believe that we are basically
operating on automatic and that we are so directed and controlled
by earlier programming, denying it doesn't make it not so.
Unfortunately we didn't come with an owners manual at birth,
so we don’t actually know how we operate and we for the
most part operate out of a “consensus trance” like
reality and without taking determined and courageous steps
to understand that go on basically thinking and acting in
the same old programmed behaviors throughout our lives and
believe that is just the way I am.
It is good to know that with NLP
change for most people can happen easily, painlessly and fast.
We are often told that our brain is the most amazing computer
on the planet, but nobody ever gave us an instruction manual
on how to use it. The good news is that Neuro Linguistic Programming
was created as a set of tools (software for the mind/body)
to update our data and to be able to move toward a truly conscious
life with far more excellence and satisfaction that would
happen otherwise. NLP offers
the tools to make excellence and more satisfying behaviors
more easily attainable. It can now happen because if you have
some areas where you are achieving excellence or having satisfying
behaviors, or if someone else is achieving excellence or satisfying
behaviors anywhere, then it can be modeled, detailed, replicated,
and enjoyed by you.
“NLP…affords the
opportunity to gain flexibility, creativity and greater
freedom of action than most of us know how…”
-Training and Development Journal
“NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge
about human communication to emerge since the sixties...”
- Science Digest
Some of the places where NLP is used:
- Psychotherapy and Counseling
- Training, Education, Public Presentations
of all kinds
- Health Counseling, Medicine, Alternative
Modalities
- Business, Management, Sales, Coaching
- Relationships and Relationship Building
- Sports and Recreational Interests
- Peak Performance and Excellence
- Parenting and Youth Building
- Writing, Communicating in any media
- Creative Pursuits and Energized Lives
One of the most important application where NLP
is valuable is in education and learning. NLP’s
practical applications include understanding how we team and
developing strategies for both students and teachers. Through
NLP, teachers and parents gain
concrete methods for helping children do well in school. Classroom
teachers are incorporating key pieces of the NLP
approach into their teaching methods and classroom management.
Medical professionals report that what they learn in NLP
training is immediately applicable and valuable in their work.
In addition, leading-edge research in NLP
today is focusing on ways of building and maintaining personal
health, engaging the body's ability to heal, and defining
the relationship between health and beliefs. Language affects
how we think and respond.
The very process of converting experience
into language requires that we delete, distort, and generalize
how we perceive the world. These are the filters that we use
that make each one of us unique. NLP
also provides questions and patterns to make communication
more effective. Research on communications has shown that
words are only 7% of communication. If we accept that as true,
then would understanding what the other 97% of communication
is be important to you?
NLP teaches
us to understand how language affects us through implicit
and embedded assumptions. Since advertisers, the media, and
politicians use language to convey their messages, teaming
about language through NLP
can also add awareness and gives us the knowledge we need
to be effective communicator's.
Here are some areas in your life that
NLP is beneficial:
• Improve your skills and performance in areas from
sales to sports.
• Remove lifelong fears and phobias.
• Identify and release negative emotions caused by
traumas.
• Increase rapport and facilitate communication in
your relationships,
business and personal.
• Change unwanted habits and behaviors giving yourself
more ecological
options.
• Learn techniques to identify your specific goals,
design them appropriately
and then program your mind to achieve them.
• Resolving conflicts and negotiating for desired results.
• Learning, studying, spelling and memory
NLP offers many people a doorway
to something far deeper. Once you know more about how you,
as a human being operate, then you can use NLP
to answer some of the truly meaningful questions. NLP
will also help you to more fully understand your mission in
life and some of the answers to how you can have even more
happiness and fulfillment.
Who Benefits from NLP?
Why should anyone want to know about or study NLP?
The answer to that is easy. NLP
is for anyone who has a desire to know more about themselves
or others. Anyone who wants to know how to understand and
use leading edge, practical and empowering tools to model
and create more satisfying lives. Whether you are in Business,
Education, Sales, Public Contact, Sports, Relationships, Communications
or just being alive on this planet and wanting your life to
be easier… NLP can become
a fascinating part of your life.
Many people have commented discovering
the power of NLP was like finally
getting your own owners manual and knowing how you operate.
A
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and learning about NLP:
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Tapes, CDs, Videos and Books can be found
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Coaching utilizing the best in NLP skills
and techniques for reaching your desired goals and to enjoy
a greater more satisfying life.
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positive changes in their lives.
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of Hypnosis and NLP, and through his many years of experience
has become a Master himself. Rich graduated from Marylhurst University with
a degree in Human Behavioral Studies.
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Wilson, M.NLP, C.HI. In 1970, Cat first learned hypnosis
from her father, and later went for certification and became
a clinical hypnotherapist. She learned NLP in 1992 and has
trained hypnotherapy students with Rich since 2001. Aside
from studying business, art, and law, Cat graduated with a
degree in Communications, Training and Development.
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