Explanation of NLP…..
NLP is the study of how people organize their thinking, feeling, language, and behavior to produce the results they do. The co-creators of NLP, John Grinder and Richard Bandler, had an insatiable desire to discover and replicate the structure of behavior patterns of excellent performers and to teach others to do the same, shortening the years of development and learning of NLP. The experts. This process is called modeling and is fundamental to NLP. They called their work Neuro-Linguistic Programming, which is about understanding the structure of how the human nervous system (neuro) transforms data received through the 5 senses into mental descriptions (linguistics) and then into unconscious behavior (programming). model for understanding the unconscious thought processes that drive behavior. This has two huge benefits: First, you can easily learn to do what others are doing well and model it. Second, you can identify limiting patterns in yourself and others and use NLP patterns to move forward.
Modeling is at the center of much of NLP, then there are the patterns and techniques that originate from modeling projects. NLP Patterns are a synthesis of powerful change interventions, language models, and behavior designs based on self-improvement and the achievement of excellence. NLP patterns have been modeled after geniuses who achieved amazing results working in the field of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy. Grinder and Bandler had little prior knowledge of this field, but they soon discovered that they, too, could achieve results just as amazing as the people they modeled in a fraction of the time. They ran courses and other people discovered that by applying the pattern they could also get amazing results. The patterns became modern NLP with new modeling projects that stimulated new patterns and techniques over the years.
Formal definition of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Neuro refers to our nervous system/mind and how it processes information and encodes it as memory within our own body/neurology. By neuro we mean experience as input, processed, and ordered by our neurological mechanisms and processes.
Linguistics indicates that the neural processes of the mind come encoded, ordered, and given meaning through language, communication systems, and various symbolic systems (grammar, mathematics, music, icons).
Programming refers to our ability to organize our sensory information (images, sounds, sensations, smells, tastes, and symbols or words) within our mind-body organism which then enables us to achieve desired results.
Taking control of your own mind describes the heart of NLP. NLP has become famous for the techniques it offers to create effective and lasting change. For example, NLP has a technique called The Fast Phobia Cure developed by Richard Bandler. Using this technique, NLP can cure a phobia in a very short period of time (often within 10-15 minutes). We have used the procedure to cure phobias of water, bees, elevators, heights, public speaking, small places, airplanes, etc. The quick phobia cure represents just one of the many techniques for such a change.
We have used a technique called Timeline Processes to remove traumatic images from the minds of traumatized people. Also, we often use certain NLP techniques conversationally, which means we don’t have to use these techniques in an overtly “therapeutic” way.
What is NLP?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) explores the inner workings of the human mind; how we think, how we develop our desires, goals and fears and how we motivate ourselves, make connections and make sense of our experiences. NLP introduces specific skills and patterns needed to make positive changes, create new options, be more effective with others, break free of old habits, patterns and self-defeating behaviours, and think more clearly about what it is we want and how to get it. .
NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience: the relationship between the mind, language, emotions and behavior patterns. It is a psychology of intelligence and interpersonal and intrapersonal communication.
NLP is a fairly recent development, originating at the University of Santa Cruz in the mid-1970s when a group of talented people (namely the aforementioned Richard Bandler and John Grinder) came together to share information and insights. seen across disciplinary boundaries. It incorporates insights from behavioral and Gestalt psychology, family therapy, hypnotherapy, linguistics, information theory, and anthropology, among many other disciplines.
Unlike other psychotherapeutic schools of thought, which focus on how problems arise, NLP began by studying people who are exceptionally good at what they do and figuring out how they do it so that anyone can get similar results doing the same things. Your goal is to move beyond corrective change (fixing specific problems) to “generative” change, which allows you to achieve more in every area of your life.
Often people find that when they learn a new skill or make a breakthrough in an area of their life, the problems seem to disappear or seem less important.
NLP in a nutshell
To be successful you only need to remember three things;
Know what you want; have a clear idea of your desired outcome in any situation.
Be alert and keep your senses open (sensory acuity) so you know what you are receiving.
Have the flexibility to keep changing what you do until you get what you want.
If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got.
Some principles of NLP
All experiences are subjective: we respond to our internal representation of events, not the events themselves.
Each person is unique and has a unique value
Everyone has all the resources they need for success: there are no resourceless people, only resourceless states.
Everyone makes the best choice available to them at the time.
Behind every behavior there is a positive intention
There is no failure, just feedback.
The behavior of a person is not the person.
The meaning of a communication is the response you get
Mind and body are part of the same system.
The experience has a structure: change the structure and you change the experience
I am in charge of my mind and therefore of my results
The history of NLP
“NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques.” -Richard Bandler
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) represents a relatively new discipline dating back to the mid-1970s. Behind NLP lies a respectable body of knowledge. NLP originated from several different intellectual disciplines organized by two co-founders: Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
It happened once when Dr. Grinder was a professor of linguistics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Bandler came there as a student to study math and computing. Dr. Grinder, in fact, had already published several books in the field of linguistics known as Transformational Grammar.
Bandler discovered that she had a natural gift for modeling and listening for patterns. He discovered that he could detect and replicate patterns in Gestalt Therapy (a form of psychotherapy) from minimal exposure. He became the editor of several of Fritz Perls’s books on Gestalt therapy. Being familiar with the work of Perls, Bandler began to study Perls techniques. When he discovered that he could model Perls’ therapeutic procedures, he began to experiment with clients using the techniques.
After enjoying the immediate and powerful results of such modeling, Richard discovered that he could model others. With Grinder’s encouragement, Bandler was given the opportunity to model the world’s foremost family therapist, Virginia Satir. Richard quickly identified the “seven patterns” that Virginia used. When he and John started applying those patterns, they found that they could replicate their therapies and get similar results.
As a computer programmer, Richard knew that programming the world’s simplest “mind”—a computer with on/off switches—breaks behavior into pieces and provides clear, unambiguous signals to the system. To this basic metaphor, John added his extensive knowledge of transformational grammar. From transformational grammar we borrow the concepts of deep and surface structure statements that transform meaning/knowledge in the human brain. From this, they began to put together their model of how humans are “programmed,” so to speak.
Thereafter, world-renowned anthropologist Gregory Bateson introduced Bandler and Grinder to Milton Erickson, MD. Erickson developed the communication model we know as “Ericksonian Hypnosis”. Since 1958, the American Medical Association has recognized hypnosis as a useful healing tool during surgery. As Bandler and Grinder modeled Erickson, they found that they could achieve similar results. Today, many of the NLP techniques result from Ericksonian process modeling.
From these experiences and their research on unifying factors and principles, Bandler and Grinder devised their first model. Essentially it functioned as a communication model that provided a theoretical understanding of how we are “programmed” by languages (sense-based and language-based) so that we develop behaviors, responses, psychomatic effects, etc. regular and systematic. This model went further. He also specified ways to use the components of subjectivity to create psychological changes and enhancements.
From that moment, NLP expanded. The model was expanded by incorporating material from other disciplines: cybernetics (communication within complex systems both mechanical and living), philosophy, cognitive psychology, studies of the “unconscious” mind, and neurology. Today NLP has institutes throughout the world and numerous authors have applied NLP to medicine and health, therapy and psychological well-being, business, education, athletics, law, Christian ministry and more. .
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