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Origins of Neuro
Linguistic Programming (NLP)
NLP was developed jointly by John Grinder (a linguist) and Richards Bandler (mathematician) in the early 1970s. Their research led to them to analyse the way we store and process our thoughts and to better understand how we communicate with others.
The two co-founders published their first book "The Structure of Magic, I" in 1975. In this book, they tried to extract the rules of human verbal communication, which would be equivalent to linguistic grammars or to mathematical formulas, by modelling such genius "therapeutic wizards" as Milton H Erickson the most important hypnotherapist, Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt Therapy and Virginia Satir, one of the authorities of family therapy.
Since around 1980, NLP has transformed itself from a tool to psychotherapy to a full-fledged methodology of "communicational psychology", which assists its practitioners in such areas as 1) personal development, 2) creativity enhancement, 3) increased performance, 4) improved communicational skills and 5) accelerated learning.
What does NLP stands for?
The name Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) comes from the three areas it brings together:
N - Neurology
The mind and how we think. The nervous system through which experience is received and processed through the five senses or representational systems: Visual (Pictures), Auditory (Sounds), Kinesthetic (Feelings), Olfactory (Smells) and Gustatory (Tastes). Then processed, coded and retained as memories.
L - Linguistic
How we use language and how it affects us. Language, s symbols, words, metaphors and nonverbal communication systems through which neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning
P - Programming
Our behaviour patterns, how we sequence our actions to achieve our goals. The ability to organise our communication and neurological systems to achieve specific desired goals and results
What is NLP?
NLP is about your experience, values beliefs, how you know the world and everyone in it. How you do what you do, how you create your own emotional states and subsequent behaviour and how you construct your internal world form our experience and give it meaning. No event has meaning in itself, we give it meaning and different people may give the same event different meanings. NLP studies experience from the inside.
So how does NLP work?
It works by using our ability to change the process in which we experience reality. It provides a way of helping to become more competent at what we do, more in control of our thoughts, feelings and actions, more positive in our approach to life and better able to achieve results.
NLP is the process taken, moving from your present state to your desired state. A state is our way of being at any given moment. Our present state is how things are now, what have I got? Our desired state is how you want things to be, what would I rather have? We can change state suddenly or over a period of time. Examples of change are; new beliefs, new actions, possibility new physical environment, anything that will bring about desired changes.
So in order to get from a present to a desired state we need to apply resources. The resources an individual needs to effective change are already within us.
NLP offers techniques to help shift our state to a more resourceful state.
The Pillars of NLP
In order to obtain the results you want are:
- Outcome: knowing specifically what you want
- Awareness: checking in, be alert and keep your senses open so you notice the results you are getting
- Flexibility: to change if what you are doing is not working; do something different
- Rapport: when dealing with people, communication
Who can benefit from NLP?
Anyone who has the desire to have a more fulfilling life will benefit from NLP. NLP enhances skills and knowledge with specific tools and strategies which will help achieve their goals.
NLP can be used to teach people how to use their minds to make positive changes that generate new possibilities and opportunities in their lives. NLP can be used for shaping feelings, creating positive habits, motivating action and resolving inner conflicts
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