Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten! The message is clear…if what you’re doing isn’t working -- do something else. “Yes, but how?” You might ask.
Unlike other approaches that tell you "What" you need to do, NLP is a How To technology. It tells and shows you "How To" achieve what you want and "How To" become the person you want to be to achieve your goals, so you can have the personal success you want now!
With NLP we have a choice about what we want to change, and how we want to change it.
Time Magazine reports: “NLP has untapped potential for treating individual problems and has become an all-purpose self-improvement program and technology.”
NLP in personal development, focuses on what you want, how you want to be, and how to find the resources and attributes you already have to assist you in making changes. NLP offers a radically different approach to traditional psychotherapy and counseling methods which tend to focus on the problem and the causes of the problem, rather that the solution.
It also means dramatic improvements in people’s lives can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time.
In business and industry, NLP is already being used to improve sales performance, decision making, presentation skills, motivation, stress management, team building and most every other area you can think of.
NLP is being used in sports psychology to help access those states of mind and body needed to ensure the repetition of peak performance. NLP is also being used in education to teach spelling and highly effective learning strategies to children.
NLP can enable you to achieve those professional and personal goals, manage your own life and to have the excellence and skills you desire.
WHAT IS NLP?
NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and patterning. We are in contact with the external world through our five senses: sight, hearing, feelings, smell and taste. Our neurology takes external stimuli and represents them to us with a matching set of “internal representation”. These form our subjective experience. Our internal world is made up of the pictures we see in our “minds eye”. It is the conversation, dialogues or arguments we have with ourselves in our thinking. It is our feelings and emotions over which we use to think we had no control.
The important point to realize is that our experience is created by combinations of these internal representations which form repeating patterns or “programs”. These patterns (or habits) run over and over again unless they are interrupted or redirected. It is like a record playing the same song unless it is rerecorded.
A phobia is a good example. A particular situation or trigger (heights, spiders, and so on) produces a particularly strong physical response (sweaty palms, fast breathing, panic, etc.). The brain learns quickly and thereafter, every time the person is presented with the same stimulus, their body knows to have the same response.
NLP recognizes the importance of physiology in changing and sustaining internal states.
Try a little experiment. Look way up at the ceiling or sky, smile, raise your arms and…try to be depressed. Now, lower you head and look down to your right, slump your shoulders and try to be happy. Tough, isn’t it? Which state of mind did you prefer? You can choose to experience it, now or any time.
Pick a state you want to feel. By reliving a time when you experienced these feelings strongly you will be able to have that state now. Make sure you really are in the situation: see what you saw then… hear what you heard then and…Feel what you felt then. Hold that for a minute and it’s your Now!
Here’s another experiment to try. Every time you catch someone saying “I can’t….” try saying, “what if you could?” Notice how they Have To consider doing the very thing they said they couldn’t do! Of course, you can always ask yourself the same question.
