What is NLP?

What is NLP?

NLP is short form of "Neuro Linguistic Programming".

Each one of us has 5 senses and this is how we gather information of the world around us.

It is how we make sense of the world.

Your brain processes the information to create your own version of the world around you. In NLP we call it your Internal Representation. This is based on your experiences.

Linguistic refers to the language (both verbal and non-verbal - what we see and make decisions about).

Programming is about taking control of your own mind and beginning to operate it in a way that it gives you more of what you want in your own life and enables you to assist others in doing the same thing.

NLP helps you learn how you can achieve the goals you set consistently.

As per the founder of NLP, Dr. Richard Bandler, NLP is an attitude. What attitude? They are:

  1. Curiosity
    1. Child like curiosity.
    2. Children are curious about anything and everything.
    3. Curiosity of how things work.
  2. Experimentation
    1.  Willingness to do anything to discover what would happen if you did.
    2. In NLP, they never ask "Why are you not achieving your goals" but they ask "Wow, what are you doing so that you fail to achieve your goals every single time? How do you do that?"
    3. With an attitude of experimentation, one will be amazed at all the new ways that you can discover how people do what they do.
    4. You will be able to tweak bits of the process until you get the results you want.
"Acting as if.." is a fundamental principle of NLP. You act with total certainty, even though you know that that certainty isn't there. I didn't mean to confuse you from the above sentence, so let me explain it. Let's say you need to get from point A to B, you will
  • Go the distance from point A to 200 mtr and reassess the next 200 mtr.
  • From that point, you will go another small distance and then reassess.
  • Eventually, you will reach point B.
  • However, these small distances that you cover are covered with full certainty that you will eventually reach point B at some time in the future.
  • For those small distances, you act with total certainty, even though you know that that certainty isn't there.

    


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