What is NLP?
Explanation of NLP …..
NLP is the study of how people organize their thoughts, feelings, language, and behavior to produce the results they get. NLP co-creators John Grinder and Richard Bandler had an insatiable desire to discover and replicate the structure of behavior patterns of excellent artists and teach others to do the same, shortening years of development and learning from experts. . This process is called modeling and is fundamental to NLP. They called their work Neuro Linguistic Programming, which deals with understanding the structure of how the human nervous system (neuro) transforms data received through the 5 senses into mental (linguistic) descriptions and then 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 the limiting patterns in yourself and others and use the NLP patterns to move you forward.
Modeling is at the core 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 were achieving amazing results working in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, and psychotherapy. Grinder and Bandler had little prior knowledge of this field, but they soon discovered that they too could get equally astonishing results as the people they modeled in a fraction of the time. They took courses and other people found that by applying the patterns they could also get amazing results. The pattern evolved into modern day NLP with new modeling projects stimulating new patterns and techniques over the years.
Formal definition of neurolinguistic 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 the experience introduced, processed and ordered by our neurological mechanisms and processes.
Linguistic indicates that the neural processes of the mind are encoded, ordered and with meaning through language, communication systems and various symbolic systems (grammar, mathematics, music, icons).
Programming refers to our ability to organize our information based on the senses (images, sounds, sensations, smells, tastes and symbols or words) within our body-mind organism that then allows us to achieve the desired results.
Taking control of your own mind describes the heart of NLP. NLP has become famous for the techniques it offers to achieve 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 cure for phobia represents just one of 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 in a conversational way, which means that we don’t have to use these techniques in an overtly “therapeutic” way.
What is NLP?
Neurolinguistic 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 presents specific skills and patterns needed to make positive changes, create new options, be more effective with others, break free from old habits, patterns, and self-destructive behaviors, and think more clearly about what it is we want and how to achieve it. .
NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience: the relationship between 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 individuals (namely the aforementioned Richard Bandler and John Grinder) came together to share information and knowledge across across disciplinary boundaries. It incorporates knowledge of 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 discovering how they do it so that anyone can get similar results from doing the same things. . Your goal is to go beyond corrective change (solving specific problems) to “generative” change, which allows you to achieve more in every area of your life.
People often 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 the desired outcome in any situation.
Be alert and keep your senses open (sensory acuity) so that you notice what you are receiving.
Have the flexibility to keep changing what you do until you get what you want.
If you continue to do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got.
Some principles of NLP
All experiences are subjective: we respond to our internal representation of events, not to the events themselves.
Each person is unique and valuable in a unique way
Everyone has all the resources they need for success: there are no people without resources, only states without resources.
Everyone puts at your disposal the best option at that time
Behind every behavior there is a positive intention.
No faults, just feedback
The behavior of a person is not the person
The meaning of a communication is the response you get
The mind and the body are part of the same system.
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 a trail of techniques.” – Richard Bandler
Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) represents a relatively new discipline dating back to the mid-1970s. Behind NLP is 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 serving as a professor of linguistics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Bandler came there as a student to study mathematics and computers. Dr. Grinder, in fact, had already published several books in the field of linguistics known as Transformational Grammar.
Bandler discovered that he had a natural gift for modeling and listening to patterns. He found that he could detect and replicate patterns in Gestalt Therapy (a form of psychotherapy) from minimal exposure. He became 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 experimenting with clients using the techniques.
After enjoying immediate and powerful results from such modeling, Richard discovered that he could model others. With Grinder’s support, Bandler had the opportunity to model the world’s leading family therapist, Virginia Satir. Richard quickly identified the “seven patterns” 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 simplest “mind” in the world – a computer with on and off switches – breaks behavior down into component parts and provides clear and 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 superficial structure sentences 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 that we know as “Ericksonian Hypnosis.” Since 1958, the American Medical Association has recognized hypnosis as a useful healing tool during surgery. When Bandler and Grinder modeled Erickson, they found they could get 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. Basically, it functioned as a communication model that provided a theoretical understanding of how we are “programmed” by languages (sense-based and linguistic-based) to develop behaviors, responses, psychomatic effects, and so on. regular and systematic. This model went further. He also specified ways to use the components of subjectivity to create psychological improvements and changes.
From that moment on, NLP expanded. The model was expanded by incorporating material from other disciplines: cybernetics (communication within complex mechanical and living systems), philosophy, cognitive psychology, studies of the “unconscious” mind, and neurology. Today, NLP has institutes around 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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