Neuro-linguistic Programming

Introduction

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a new field developed in the 1970s and is based on a set of very precise ways to identify how successful people achieve their results. It offers a series of techniques and models for coding human behaviour and understanding what people do and how they do it when they perform with excellence. It encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing a person's experience: neurology, language and patterning.

NLP gets its name from the relationships it explores between how we think (Neuro), communicate (Linguistic) and patterns of behaviour (Programming).

Neuro - Nervous system through which experience is received and processed through the five senses.
Linguistic - Language and nonverbal communication systems through which neural representations are coded, ordered, and given meaning.
Programming - The ability to organise our communication and neurological systems to achieve specific desired goals and results.

You could say that NLP provides the missing instruction manual of how the mind works. It also offers a trail of techniques that will support change and provides a map of how to REALLY achieve success in your life. NLP will allow you to make real changes easily and safely so that you can fully achieve your potential.

It is important to realise and acknowledge that at the heart of NLP is its guiding principles and attitudes about behaviour. It gives individuals choice to choose their behaviours, emotional states and physical states of well-being by understanding how the mind works.

The creators of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder began this field by developing models based on top communicators of the time. Inevitably, from these models grew a trail of techniques for rapidly and effectively changing thoughts, beliefs and behaviours. The models were created not by asking these talented people how they did something but more for understanding the underlying structure of how they represent the beliefs and attitudes and strategies within their minds when they are completing a particular task.

As a summary:

NLP is an attitude ... characterised by a sense of curiosity and adventure and a desire to learn the skills to be able to find out what kinds of communication influences subjective experience.
NLP is a methodology ... based on the presupposition that all behaviour has a structure and that structure can be modelled, learned, taught, and changed(re-programmed).
NLP has evolved as an innovative technology enabling the organisation of information and perceptions in ways that allow the achievement of results that were once inconceivable.

How can you benefit from NLP?

NLP has altered the way of delivering psychotherapy. Unlike some traditional forms of therapy, NLP doesn't focus on 'why' you have a problem, the emphasis is on what you want to achieve, what you want to improve, in which ways you would like to change and which skills and abilities you want to develop.

Examples of issues I can help you with:

• Understanding and communicating your thought processes more coherently.
• Experiencing your problems from a new perspective..
• Moving your thinking in new directions.
• Accessing personal strengths and inner resources.
• Focusing on solutions, rather than problems.
• Focusing on what can be done, instead of dwelling on why something happened.
• Healing traumatic events in your past.
• Being empowered to cope with difficulty more effectively.
• Thinking optimistically about future possibilities.
• Gain insight into subconscious causes of behaviour.
• Make changes in your life and feel congruent doing so.
• Expand your behavioural choices.
• Have greater flexibility and adaptability in your behaviour.
• And much more...

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