NLP provides the ‘How To’ for exceptional results.
There have been times when you were superb, you found the very best in yourself. With NLP you can discover how to have more of these.
NLP is the study of exceptional talent - how outstanding individuals and organisations get their results. These methods can be taught to others so they too can get the same results. This process is called modeling.
With it you can make your highest standards into your normal achievements.
NLP is both the study of excellence and the practical tools and methods that are generated through modeling. NLP models the beliefs, values, thinking strategies and behaviour that lead to effective action. These tools are used internationally in business, training, sales, sports, education and law. NLP is practical, it gives skills as well as theories.
NLP began in the mid nineteen seventies in America from the work of the linguist John Grinder, and Richard Bandler, a psychologist. They began by modeling excellent communicators, building models of communication skills. Since then NLP has continued to develop and grow and is taught all over the world.
In order to model, NLP studies how we structure our subjective experience - how we think about our values and beliefs and how we create our emotional states - how we construct our internal world from our experience and give it meaning. NLP is not about finding the right map, but broadening and enriching the one we have. This map of the world is not an intellectual construct but literally a way of being, of moving, breathing, speaking and feeling.
The name 'Neuro-Linguistic Programming' comes from the three areas it brings together.
N for Neurology - The mind and how we think.
L for Linguistics - How we use language and how we are affected by it.
P for Programming - What we do: our sequence of actions and thinking patterns to achieve our goals.
NLP is more than just a collection of techniques. It is also a way of thinking, a frame of mind based on curiosity, exploration and fun. NLP starts with you - learning how you guide yourself and influence others.
Now try this NLP Thought Experiment -
This takes but a few moments, and it will give you an immediate experience of the power of NLP.
Think of a pleasant experience, one you enjoyed. Make a picture of it in your mind. Notice whether you are looking out through your own eyes, as if it were happening, or whether you are seeing yourself in the picture, like on a film or television.
Come out of that experience.
Now experience the memory in a different way.
If you were inside it, as if it were happening again, looking out through your own eyes, then change the way you view it. See yourself in the picture having the experience.
If you were already seeing yourself having the experience, then step into it, and be inside it, see it again through your own eyes.
Come out of the experience.
Did you notice the difference in your feelings?
When you are inside an experience seeing it through your own eyes you get the feelings of the experience again. When you are outside the experience seeing yourself inside it, you automatically reduce those feelings.
Is it useful to choose how you think of your experiences? Do cows eat grass?
- you can experience the good feelings again and have your good memories as resources to call on for the rest of your life.
- and you can distance yourself from bad experiences, diminish their power and learn from them more easily.
This is one of the most useful ways of managing your memories and feelings.
The principles of NLP are often called presuppositions because you pre-suppose them to be true and then act. They are not claimed to be true, or universal, but they do make a difference if you act as if they are true.
1. People respond to their map of reality and not to reality itself.
We operate and communicate from those maps. NLP is the art of changing these maps, not reality. We cannot know reality directly in our usual state of consciousness, because we perceive the world through our senses, and they take in only a tiny fraction of all the possibilities. 'Reality', as John Lennon once said, 'leaves a lot to the imagination.'
2. Human behaviour is purposeful.
We do not always know what that purpose is consciously. A purpose opens a gap between where we are and where we want to be. That gap gives us a reason and the energy to act.
3. Every behaviour has a positive intention.
It is trying to achieve something valuable for us. A person is more than their behaviour. NLP separates the intention or purpose behind an action from the action itself. All behaviour makes sense to the person who does it at some level, however bizarre it appears on the outside. Another way of expressing this is that people always make the best choice available to them in their model of the world. Give them a better choice from their point of view and they will take it.
4. The unconscious mind is not malevolent. It contains great resources
The unconscious mind balances the conscious, it is everything that we are not aware of in the present moment, from the feeling in our toes to the processes that keep our heart beating. It is not inherently malevolent. What appear as monsters from one point of view may be angels from another, (And vice versa).
5. Having a choice is better than not having a choice.
Set your goals to create the richest choices available in harmony with your values. Act always to increase choice. The person with the most number of choices, that is, the greatest flexibility of thought and behaviour, will have the greatest influence in any interaction.
6. People work perfectly.
No one is wrong or broken. What is important is how we achieve our aims. If it is cumbersome, complicated or unpleasant, it can be changed for something more useful and desirable. Some people are travelling in the equivalent of a psychological chariot. They might like the option of a private jet if they knew about it. However, the chariot they have is a perfectly good chariot, not a bad private jet.
7. The meaning of the communication is the response you get.
This may be different to the one you intended. There are no failures in communication, only responses and feedback. Every experience can be utilised. If you are not getting the result you want, do something different.
8. We already have all the resources we need, or we can create them.
There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states.
9. Mind and body are one system
They interact and mutually influence each other. Change one and the other must change too.
10. Modeling successful performance leads to excellence.
If one person can do something it is possible to model it and teach it to others. Excellence can be duplicated. It does not mean anything is possible for anybody in exactly the same way.
11. If you want to understand - Act
We create our world and our perceptions by what we do.
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