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What is Neuro Linguistic Programming ?
NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming, a name that links the three most influential parts involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming.
Neuro refers to our nervous system and how we think, by becoming aware of our thinking patterns we can gain an understanding of how they influence our results. The neurological system (brain) regulates how our bodies function.
Linguistic refers to how we use language, both verbal and non-verbal and how that affects us. By learning to use our language effectively we can change our thinking and master the ability to communicate effectively. Language determines how we interface and communicate with our brain and other people and how we use this interaction to get the results we want for ourselves and others.
Programming refers to the strategies we run throughout our lives in the form of habitual programmes. By gaining an understanding of these strategies, we can change them, keep them or improve them to enhance our potential.
NLP is a method of influencing the brain behaviour through the use of language and other types of communication, to enable a person to ‘recode’ the way the brain responds to stimuli, and manifest new and better behaviours.
NLP is a ‘model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and the subjective experiences (esp. patterns of thought) underlying them’ and ‘a system of alternative therapy based on this which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional behaviour’
What are the benefits of NLP?
Essentially, NLP is the study of excellence in how we think, how we behave and how we communicate. It provides a series of techniques, skills and methodologies that can be used to create strategies to enable us to fulfil our potential in all areas of our lives.
NLP is today a highly effective system that changes the patterns of emotional and mental behaviour in order to enable you to achieve more success in whatever you do and to enjoy a happier personal life.
NLP enables you to add flexibility and effectiveness to your work and personal life and improve the quality and range of your life choices. By using NLP to educate yourself in effective communication and self awareness you can learn new behaviours and adapt them in order to create the outcomes you choose.
NLP will enable you to be free to change into the person you always wanted to be and to inspire change in others.
NLP methodology can also help you to change your mental habits to emulate those used successful people. BY using NLP you can change habits and behaviours in yourself and others. It allows you to become a more effective negotiator and achieve more in your work.
In short NLP allows people to have more choices about their lives. It is all about freedom.
Is NLP a therapy?
The difference between NLP and therapy is defining NLP as an educational process which can be used to do things that psychotherapy so rarely manages i.e.: - to bring about lasting and constructive change. NLP differs from most therapies in that it is solutions orientated. It is not interested in analysing and dissecting a ‘problem,’ but rather focuses on finding satisfactory outcomes for clients.
NLP is about self-discovery, exploring, identity and mission. It also provides a framework for understanding and relating to the ‘spiritual’ part of human experience that reaches beyond us as individuals to our family, community and global systems. NLP is not only about competence and excellence; it is about wisdom and vision.
NLP provides tools and skills for the development of states of individual excellence; and also establishes a system of empowering beliefs and presuppositions about what human beings are, what communication is and what the process of change is all about.
Who uses NLP?
NLP is extremely popular in the self-help, therapy, sports, education, performance and corporate worlds. In fact it is used in so many areas of life that it would be easier to list where it isn’t used.NLP is used to enhance performance, to help an individual control their emotional state and to stay focused on what they want from life. It incorporates specific NLP strategies and techniques designed to produce specific outcomes. E.g.:- the famous NLP “Fast Phobia Cure” has a very different set of techniques in comparison with the NLP “Motivation Strategy.”
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