Empowering & Enriching Lives
NLP
GOD MAY FORGIVE YOUR SINS BUT NERVOUS SYSTEM WONT
-Alfred Korzybski
(NLP) is defined in the as "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"[
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What is NLP?
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NLP is a unique model of how people learn, motivate themselves, and change their behavior to achieve excellence in any endeavor.
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How did NLP get its name?
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The term Neurolinguistic Programming was introduced by Alfred Habdank Skarbek Korzybski. This is also the same man who quoted, God may forgive you for your sins but your nervous system wont." NLP is an integration of several disciplines including neurology, psychology, linguistics, cybernetics, and systems theory. The components of the term Neurolinguistic Programming describe best what this little known science encompasses. NEURO because all of our experiences, both conscious and subconscious, are derived through and from our senses and central nervous system. LINGUISTIC because our mental processes are also coded, organized, given meaning and transformed through language. PROGRAMMING because people interact as a system in which experience and communication are composed of sequences of patterns or programs.
In NFNLP, we currently use PSYCHOLOGY rather than Programming. We do this because the word Psychology comes from the word psyche meaning Spirit and ology, the study of systems.
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What can NLP do?
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It lets you model, or copy, human excellence in any form. With NLP, you can identify what makes someone exceptionally skilled, and get that skill for yourself or teach it to others. NLP can help you become adept in whatever is important to you, whether that means getting along with your family and coworkers or being more effective on the job.
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Where is NLP useful?
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NLP is valuable wherever human communications skills can enhance results in business consultation, management, negotiation, education, counseling, therapy, relationships, parenting, nursing, public speaking, sports performance and many other areas.
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What kind of results can I get with NLP?
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NLP can allow a therapist to change the impact of the past on a client, a teacher to change a poor speller into a good speller, a business person to gain rapport non-verbally and run meetings efficiently, an athlete to improve concentrations, and more.
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Is NLP a therapy?
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Although NLP can be used as a method of therapy, the applications are much broader. Even when used as a therapy, its basically a process of teaching people how to use their brains. Most therapy is remedial; that is, directed towards solving problems from the past. NLP goes much further to study excellence and teach the skills that promote positive change that generates new possibilities and opportunities.
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SOME SUPPOSITIONS OF NLP
People make the best choices they can at any given moment, given their present model of their world?
"Human beings have a peculiar trait; if they find something they do doesn't work, they do it again!"
"If what you're doing isn't working, do something different."
"The meaning of any communication is the response that you get. If you're not getting the response, change what you're doing.
In any system, including human ones, the element with the widest range of variability will be the one that determines the outcome."
Keep asking
How are you doing that?
How do you know?
How can you clearly understand the patient's model of the world, and how it got to be that way."
"Process is more important than content. If you alter the content, change takes for ever."
"Problems have much more to do with process, with the way experience is organised and structured. If you can change the organising process, you can change outcome more easily, more quickly and more enduringly. Therapy means change."
"To be a good communicator, you need 3 things.
First, to know what outcome you want.
Second, you need maximum flexibility in your own behaviour.
Third, you need to be able to notice, fully and accurately, the responses you are getting?
"Somewhere inside most people are the resources they need to overcome most problems. Therapy locates and then re-locates them."
"Match, link, lead.
NLP AIMS
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To learn to recognise people's internal 'programming' from the neurological and linguistic cues they give out
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In particular to learn to spot when maladaptive modelling is going on, i.e. producing distress or difficulties for the individual
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Therapeutically to loosen rigidities, correct misperceptions and challenge false assumptions
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To offer specific therapeutic techniques for up-dating maladaptive responses - 'new models for old'
OTHERS ON NLP - NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
"NLP cannot be dismissed as just another hustle. Its theoretical underpinnings represent an ambitious attempt to codify and synthesize the insights of linguistics, body language, and the study of communication systems." Psychology Today
"[NLP] does offer the potential for making changes without the usual agony that accompanies these phenomena. . . Thus it affords the opportunity to gain flexibility, creativity, and greater freedom of action than most of us now know. ." Training and Development Journal
. . . real estate brokers and salespeople use Neuro-Linguistics to enhance their communication skills and provide them with more choices when working in a difficult situation. . . it shows how we make sense of the world around us and communicate." Real Estate Today
fundamental assumptions from where we start
- Fundamental beliefs that allows you to begin to choose the empowering Mind Mastery model and leave behind the disempowering Mind Servitude model
- Identify and take control of the intricate connections between your mind, your emotions and your behavior.
- The clearest and easiest model of how people learn, communicate, change, and evolve themselves