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NLP Key Benefits
Do you want to CHANGE YOUR OWN BEHAVIOUR and the behaviour of those around you EASILY and EFFORTLESSLY at WILL? What is NLP? NLP is the art and the science of human behaviour - (to look at the science click here) NLP is the study of personal excellence NLP is the powerful and practical approach to personal change NLP is the acronym for Neuro-Linguistic-Programming.
Neuro refers to our Neurology or the biological makeup of our brains and nervous systems. Including our five senses: Sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch. As humans we are in contact with the world through these 5 senses. Our neurology takes this input and presents them to us internally in ways that are unique to you. This is the realm of subjective experience. When thinking of something you may 'see' something in your mind's eye. You may hear some internal dialogue or just have a feeling about something. It is also true to say that some may say 'they smell a rat' or that an experience 'leaves a bad taste'. What is important is that your experience will be created by combinations of these internal representations which create your behaviours. These will of course continue in the same way unless you interrupt them or redirect them. Linguistic refers to the language we use, both verbal and none verbal, and how this mirrors our internal mental processes. Programming suggests that we can re-programme our brain in much the same way as a modern computer, "upgrading" existing behaviours and "installing" new ones. Neuro-Linguistic-Programming is just a descriptive word for what in essence is an attitude (of curiosity and experimentation) that leads to a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques. It can be defined as the study of the structure of subjective experience and what can be calculated from that and is predicated upon the belief that all behaviour has structure. It is based upon the attitude, the models and the skills which allow for constant generation of new techniques which are more effective and work faster. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so" William Shakespeare
The History of NLP NLP was initially created in 1975 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who discovered that you can "model" human behaviour, and then, using this model, duplicate the results in someone else. They began modelling and duplicating the "magical results" of a few top communicators and therapists and using what they learned to improve other peoples skills and abilities. Some of the first people to be studied included Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, gestalt therapist Fritz Perls and family therapist Virginia Satir. Because these models are formal they also allow for prediction and calculation. Patterns that may not have been available in any of these people's work could be calculated from the formal representations they had created. New techniques and models were (and still are being) developed. NLP was specifically created in order to allow us to do magic by creating new ways of understanding how verbal and non-verbal communication affect the human brain. As such it presents us all with the opportunity to not only communicate better with others, but also learn how to gain more control over what we considered to be automatic functions of our own neurology. The ideas and methods used in NLP allow us to take behaviours apart, produce new and more empowering behaviours which will in turn let us control the input we get from the outside world. "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right" Henry Ford
Presuppositions of NLP During the early days of NLP certain beliefs and ideas were developed and adopted as general principles that we can follow that will help us develop higher levels of communication with both ourselves and others. If we 'pre suppose' them to be 'true' they can serve as useful tools in our search for improved communication.
"THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY" Alfred Korzybski all experience of the world is subjective and therefore it is true to say when 'I describe the taste of an apple or the colour of a sunset not one of us on the planet can know what I experience when I taste or see these things'. Although we all share the same territory we all have our own maps of our version of reality. This is invariably founded on our belief structures.
PEOPLE CAN CREATE THEIR OWN EXPERIENCES We are all conditioned to respond in ways that are unique to us and to a greater extant it is this conditioning that makes an experience what it is. However understanding how we create experiences internally gives us the key to changing and therefore creating experiences that are far more resourceful.
PEOPLE ARE NOT THEIR BEHAVIOUR Whatever behaviour people demonstrate can be changed. Look at the previous presupposition. Our behaviours are created by the response we have to events. If we can change the effect they have on us it is therefore possible to change our behaviour.
THE MEANING OF COMMUNICATION IS THE RESPONSE YOU GET When you are talking to a group of people or just one person we will get a reaction. That reaction is a result of our communication. If you illicit no response that is still a response. It is the duty of a good communicator to realise that whatever response we get is the result of this interaction. If it's not working out that is your fault not theirs.
ALL EXPERIENCE HAS A DISTINCT STRUCTURE All experience can be broken down into the 5 senses or modalities. These in turn can be broken down in to what we know as submodalities. For example Sight can be made up of size, shape, colour, brightness, 3D, 2D, bordered or panoramic, close or distant and so on. Once you understand this you can go inside and change that experience using the submodalities of a more resourceful state.
ALL BEHAVIOUR HAS A POSITIVE INTENT No matter what happens in your life it is the best thing your unconscious can do for you at that time. In retrospect this may seem hard to believe but when a person has, what they believe to be limited resources it is the best they've got to work with. Understanding this means we can now go and change things, utilising resources from other areas of our lives.
MIND AND BODY ARE INTERDEPENDENT AND THEREFORE AFFECT EACH OTHER What we do to the body affects the mind and vice versa. If we think in negative ways we usually get our desired outcome! The opposite is also true.
PEOPLE MAKE THE BEST CHOICES AVAILABLE TO THEM If you feel you have limited resources and there fore. Limiting beliefs about yourself you can only make choices based on this map of reality. Therefore all the choices you make WILL be the best choices available!
PEOPLE WORK PERFECTLY Whatever their behaviour people do the best things they can with the information they have. Therefore, it could be said that no behaviour is irrational. You are doing the only thing you can with the internal resources you have. However if you are given more choice you will be able to achieve so much more.
THERE IS NO FAILURE ONLY FEEDBACK If we live our lives according to this presupposition we can do no worse than learn from our experiences. If we view everything as feedback we feel better about our situation and can therefore utilise resources that empower us rather than demotivate us.
HAVING CHOICE IS BETTER THAN NOT HAVING CHOICE Living your life with choices is far more empowering than not. When we have choices in our lives we start to use the internal resources in a positive way.
PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO BRING ABOUT CHANGE We all have choice and resources to help us make the changes necessary to improve our lives. If you haven't got a resource you can always model the resources of others. After all, NLP was built on modelling the excellence of others. Benefits Individuals
Teachers and Trainers
Sales people
Therapists and Health Professionals
Managers
Sports People and Athletes
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