NLP is a model of effective communication to create your desired reality. It looks at modelling the way of thinking and performance of others, who have excelled and continuously attained a successful outcome. It is seen by its co-founder John Grinder as being ‘an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques’.
NLP has been around since early 1970s, is used often in business, sports, education, health and other areas of daily living to help people achieve their full potential.
NLP has some basic principles, presuppositions, conditions and techniques which are proven to be of great value. It is not always about doing but sometimes about being inquisitive, about seeing things in a different perspective and being aware of how you take information and communicate within your own map of the world.
In reality a lot of the problems we face are due to our own way of seeing life, or
self-perspective. In general the situations we face, on their own are neither good nor bad but they are what we want them to be in accordance to our perception of the event which is different for each of us.
According to NLP principles, our perception of the world is directly related to our internal representation or the way we delete, distort and generalise information. For example if an accident is witness by a number of people, when comparing statements from each person on the same accident they will often show a significant number of discrepancies. This is because people have paid attentions to different factors and registered what to them was more important. Their internal filters and representational model determined their perception of the event and even whether what they perceived is good or bad.
The way people filter information which in turn creates their internal representation has a direct impact on the way they feel about things, and consequently determines their behaviour. NLP helps you to acknowledge when your internal representations are no longer working in your favour and to change them to more positive ones.
“We experience the world through our five senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. Because there is so much continuous information coming in our direction we unconsciously delete what is not relevant. We filter the remaining data based on our past experience, values and beliefs. What we end up with is incomplete and inaccurate because some of the original input has been deleted altogether and the rest has been generalised or distorted. The filtered information forms our internal map, which influences our physiology and ‘state of being’. This in turn affects our behaviour.” Steve Bavister & Amanda Vickers 2004.
The different methods of NLP are an empowerment tool that once embraced will make you think and perform in an even more fast and positive way to achieve what you want in life. Presuppositions such as ‘the meaning of a communication is the response you get’, ‘there’s no such thing as failure only feedback’, ‘we have the resources within us to achieve what we want’ and if one person can do something, anyone can learn it’ are a few of the presuppositions that once adopted by you can bring about enormous changes in the direction you see your life going.
Adding to presuppositions, NLP has a framework which incorporates other concepts and techniques in its approach, such as representational systems, submodalities, meta programs, values and beliefs, well formed goals and outcomes, anchoring, sensory acuity and calibration, rapport, perceptual positions, meta model, modelling, time line, reframing and parts, Milton model and finally techniques such as the fast phobia cure.
In any given area of the wheel of life (career and finance, family, relationships, personal development, spirituality, health and fitness) NLP can help you to make positive changes and to keep you focus to achieve your outcome. It takes you through a series of questions leading to self discovery and gives you the resources to embark on a journey towards creating your own reality the way you want it to be.
‘There is a place that you are to fill and no one else can fill, something that you are to do, which no one else can do.’ Plato
WHAT IS INVOLVED?
NLP sessions are about interaction and reflection, learning the techniques that will give you the right frame of mind to achieve your goal, discussing what you want, and finding the resources to make it happen, looking at your values and believes, why do you have them, what purpose do they serve and how to change them if they are not empowering you.
NLP also looks at the way you communicate with others and mainly with yourself. What kind of things do you say to yourself through self talk and through your actions? Is your internal voice helping you or limiting you? How do you use it to stay focus?
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