NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It is a method of influencing brain behavior (the "neuro" part of the phrase) through the use of language (the "linguistic" part) and other types of communication to enable a person to "re-code" the way the brain responds to events (that's the "programming") and manifest new and better behaviors.
NLP contains a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques to change the behaviors that are not working for you, and create new, empowering states and actions to help you achieve what you want.
How does NLP work?
We take in all information through our five senses. To make the pieces of information into small enough chunks to deal with – we filter the information.
Some of the filters are our perceptions of time and space, the language we use and our understanding of words and gestures, our memories, the unique way we go about making decisions, our values and beliefs, plus our overall attitude. We delete, distort and generalize information according to our unique filters.
Once we have passed incoming information through all these filters, we take what has gotten through and we make an internal representation of it. This internal representation is in the form of a sensory perception: a picture with sounds, feelings, tastes and smells. The next thing that happens (instantaneously) is that our internal representation triggers a corresponding state and behavior.
What is a state?
Being happy is a state; so is depression. Being “fired up” is a state, so is tiredness or lethargy. Many people are familiar with the expression “It’s a state of mind” but what’s really interesting about the state is that it leads us to choose corresponding behavior.
These days many people live much of their lives in the “fight or flight” mode, ie – stress. This response of the nervous system is only meant to be activated in times of emergency. Frequent and long term surges of adrenalin into your blood stream cause major health problems and premature aging. NLP teaches simple methods of controlling your state and transforming the “triggers” which cause dis-ease.
In a nutshell then, NLP enables people to be less affected (unconsciously reacting) by external circumstance, through becoming more aware of our internal processes, and thereby being more at cause (consciously creating) in the various areas of life.
NLP Quotes
“NLP helps me to manage audiences and motivate them. It’s just amazing!” -Oprah-
“NLP is one of the biggest breakthroughs in the technology of achievement and human excellence” -Time magazine-
“I built my sales career from zero to become the world’s best motivator by using NLP.” -Anthony Robbins-
“NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the explosion of Humanistic Psychology in the sixties” -Science Digest-
NLP contains a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques to change the behaviors that are not working for you, and create new, empowering states and actions to help you achieve what you want.
How does NLP work?
We take in all information through our five senses. To make the pieces of information into small enough chunks to deal with – we filter the information.
Some of the filters are our perceptions of time and space, the language we use and our understanding of words and gestures, our memories, the unique way we go about making decisions, our values and beliefs, plus our overall attitude. We delete, distort and generalize information according to our unique filters.
Once we have passed incoming information through all these filters, we take what has gotten through and we make an internal representation of it. This internal representation is in the form of a sensory perception: a picture with sounds, feelings, tastes and smells. The next thing that happens (instantaneously) is that our internal representation triggers a corresponding state and behavior.
What is a state?
Being happy is a state; so is depression. Being “fired up” is a state, so is tiredness or lethargy. Many people are familiar with the expression “It’s a state of mind” but what’s really interesting about the state is that it leads us to choose corresponding behavior.
These days many people live much of their lives in the “fight or flight” mode, ie – stress. This response of the nervous system is only meant to be activated in times of emergency. Frequent and long term surges of adrenalin into your blood stream cause major health problems and premature aging. NLP teaches simple methods of controlling your state and transforming the “triggers” which cause dis-ease.
In a nutshell then, NLP enables people to be less affected (unconsciously reacting) by external circumstance, through becoming more aware of our internal processes, and thereby being more at cause (consciously creating) in the various areas of life.
NLP Quotes
“NLP helps me to manage audiences and motivate them. It’s just amazing!” -Oprah-
“NLP is one of the biggest breakthroughs in the technology of achievement and human excellence” -Time magazine-
“I built my sales career from zero to become the world’s best motivator by using NLP.” -Anthony Robbins-
“NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the explosion of Humanistic Psychology in the sixties” -Science Digest-