What is NLP?
NLP is the study of excellence in human performance, and provides the ‘roadmap' to the human mind. It is internationally recognized as the most powerful tool to achieving lasting change in human attitude and behaviour, quickly and effectively. NLP enables us to get outstanding results through improving our communication, performance, thinking and behaviour so that our entire mind supports what we want to achieve in life.
Rather than focusing on purely external behaviour, NLP is effective because it makes changes at the unconscious level, focus lies on developing cognitive thinking patterns, ineffective strategies and developing internal resources that drive emotional state, attitude and behaviour.
NLP provides a set of innovative, powerful tools and techniques that successfully enable individuals to take control of their lives and create effective change in their thoughts, beliefs, behaviours, state and attitude. Specific language is crucial to ensuring excellent results and techniques can be easily taught or applied to enable individuals to
- Change, adopt or eliminate behaviours as they desire
- Overcome personal barriers, trauma, conflict, negative beliefs and decisions
- Choose their mental, emotional, and physical states of well-being
- Become very effective at creating the future they want
- Create effective strategies
- Align values and meta-programs with the outcomes they want to achieve in their life
- Overcome educational and learning difficulties
- Build excellent communication skills and develop relationships easily
- Develop resources such as motivation, rapport building, confidence, effective goal setting, time management and attitude skills
NLP can be applied to a wide range of contexts to increase interpersonal communication and personal success such as:
Business: Communication, Influence, Sales, Negotiating, Management, Staff effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Goal setting and Recruitment.
Personal development and therapy
Sports: Overcoming Injury, Peak Performance, Accessing Flow State, Confidence
The definition of NLP:
Neuro:
The nervous system (the mind), through which our experience is processed via the five senses: Visual, Auditory, Kinaesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory
Linguistic:
Language and other non-verbal communication systems, e.g. hand gestures, physiology, through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. Includes: Pictures, Sounds, Feelings, Tastes, Smells, Words (Self Talk)
Programming:
The ability to discover and utilize the programmes that we run (our communication to ourselves and others) in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes
In other words, NLP is how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve our specific and desired outcomes.
What are some beliefs in NLP?
- Respect the other persons model of the world
- Resistance in a client is a sign of a lack of rapport – there are no resistant clients only inflexible communicators
- People are not their behaviours – accept the person, change the behaviour
- Everyone is doing the best that they can with the resources they have available
- The map is not the territory – the words we use are not the event or the item they represent
- You are in charge of your mind and therefore your results
- People have all the resources they need to succeed and achieve their desired outcomes
- The meaning of communication is the response you get
- All procedures should be designed to increase choice
- All procedures should increase wholeness
- The law of requisite variety – the system or person with the most flexibility will control the system
What do others say about NLP?
"NLP has untapped potential for treating individual problems and is becoming an all purpose self improvement program and technology." -- Time Magazine
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"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
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"NLP cold be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the 1960s." -- Science Digest
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"(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
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