Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)

Page Summary

Find out more about NLP or Neurolinguistic Programming on this page. NLP provides amazingly simple, powerful methods to:

• change the way we think, feel, act and learn
• enable us to transform relationships
• achieve personal changes quickly and easily

What is NLP?

NLP or Neurolinguistic Programming, is a new field developed in the 1970's in the US by Dr John Grinder, a well known professor of linguistics, together with Richard Bandler. They produced a linguistic model that identified language patterns of a few gifted individuals:

• Family Therapist Virginia Satir
• Gestalt Therapist Fritz Perls
• Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson
• Anthropologist Gregory Bateson
  

NLP is based on a set of very precise ways to identify how someone who is successful, is achieving results. NLP determines which internal strategies they use, and these strategies are then distilled into handy tools for others to use and create similar successes.

NLP is often used as a vehicle for 'fast' or accelerated change. One of its underlying assumptions is that even without NLP people can change and that over time these changes can be profound. By applying NLP to these situations changes can happen - very quickly indeed, sometimes in minutes!

NLP is essentially a very skilled use of language. Our use of language can take many forms – the verbal or spoken word as well as our own internal thoughts and beliefs. The NLP language patterns and techniques can be used not only for:

• personal growth and development
• to help reprogram a person's mind and body to gain greater effectiveness in all aspects of life
• positive strategies in the business community and
• in many other areas of life

NLP Explanation

• 'Neuro' acknowledges the fact that we use the brain, the nervous system and the body's five senses to process information. We use sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell to learn, think and remember.
• 'Linguistic' refers to the verbal language that we use to communicate with each other, as well as our internal thoughts and our external body language.
• 'Programming' is the ‘programs or patterns of behaviour’ we all demonstrate and the way we organise our thoughts and our behaviours in order to produce results. Knowing about these things and the way they are learnt helps us to unlearn out-of-date programs. We can learn new ways to perceive, to listen and to go about things more positively.

Where Can NLP Be Used?

Neurolinguistic Programming is a method of personal growth and development an effective tool for improving your own and others' performance.... and is being used in many areas:

• Education and learning
• Personal development, coaching
• Sports excellence
• Counselling and therapy
• Conflict resolution
• Business negotiations
• Analysing and planning
• Chronic Diseases

Quote

"NLP may be the most powerful vehicle for change in existence"
Psychology Today magazine

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