Neuro
Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of excellence.
By studying the structure of how people do things well,
it can be enhanced and taught to others. The methodology
is one of modelling which means looking at the results of
what has been achieved and identifying the process that
lead to that result. The result is the development of tools
and techniques that empower a person to achieve greater
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What's
it for?
NLP
can be applied to business, health and well-being, counselling
and therapy, relationships, sport, training and education,
negotiation, leadership, presentation skills, goal setting
etc. It is about how to run your brain to achieve the results
you desire - a means by which people can achieve goals and
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Understanding
NLP
NLP
explains how we process information coming to us from the
world around us. Cognition of an external event occurs as
we experience it through the senses - visual, auditory,
kinaesthetic (feeling), olfactory (smell) and gustatory
(taste). Before we make an internal representation of the
event we do the following:-
Delete
- when we selectively pay attention to some aspects of our
experience and not others;
Distort - when we make shifts in our experience of sensory
data by making either misrepresentations of reality or making
it mean something about ourselves or the world. E.g. Being
ignored means our parents didn't love us or we are unlovable.
Generalise - when we draw global conclusions based on one
or more experiences. E.g. Our first partner leaves us and
we expect every partner to do the same thing.
It is the therapist's responsibility to draw attention to
when the client is either deleting, distorting or generalizing
about their experiences so that they have access to creating
the way they would like to interpret events that happen
in their lives. BACK
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Problems
The
tools of NLP also allow for understanding what strategies
people have for creating their own problems. For example
some people visualize all the possible things that can go
wrong. Others tell themselves that they are stupid and will
never get things right. When these strategies are brought
to conscious awareness in therapy then the client has got
themselves above the vicious circle of the symptoms of the
problem reinforcing having the problem and it is from this
viewpoint that changes can be made. BACK
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Negative
Feelings
Another
tool of NLP which can help clients is to understand anchoring
of feelings. What often happens in life is that certain
words, certain people, certain looks on a person's face
can trigger us to feel bad. In the therapy these anchored
negative feelings are either deleted or overwritten. BACK
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About
Nicola
Overall
NLP is a very powerful way of changing the way we think
so that we can have the results we want in our lives. Nicola
is a certified Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming
and has been successfully using the techniques with clients
for several years. BACK
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