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NLP
- Neuro Linguistic Programming
What
is NLP?
NLP
stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming, a name that
encompasses the three most influential components
involved in producing human experience:
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Neurology - the neurological system regulates how
your body functions
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Language - determines how you interrelate and communicate
with both yourself and other people
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Programming - determines the kind of model of the
world you create for yourself
NLP describes the fundamental dynamics between mind
(neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay
affects your body and resulting behaviours.
NLP is not involved with theory or genesis of the
problem, or "translating" a behaviour into cause and
effect connections. For example: I am the way I am,
or I do what I do, because
of my childhood. NLP is a
set of tools whose proper use will lead to how,
that is becoming aware of, the mental process used
to continue doing what it is you do that you do not
want to continue doing.
On the other hand, you may have the desire to do
something, to embrace a new direction in life,
or attain some specified goal.
This same set of tools can be used to overcome, or
dilute, those issues that have interfered, and therefore
prevented, you from doing what it is you would like
to do.
In other words NLP is a set of tools that allows you
to change what you are doing, or not doing, so that
you can fulfill your desires more easily.
Why Learn NLP?
To begin with most behaviours are on automatic, that
is, they seem to run by themselves. We have plenty
of labels for this phenomenon, among them: Compulsive,
Obsessive, Wired Wrong, Habit, Conditioned and Unconscious.
That last is perhaps closest to the truth. Once you
have learned to do something well, you usually no
longer have to engage the conscious mind. You "just
do it." NLP provides the tools to again become conscious,
or aware of the mental process involved that activates
the behaviour. By becoming once again consciously
aware of how the mind does the process
that leads to the behaviour, you have taken the first
step, and are now on the path of change and growth.
NLP also provides a variety of mental techniques to
change mental processes, and by extension,
the resulting behaviour(s). Once the change has been
practised for a while, it too becomes "unconscious,"
or “habit.” Now the conscious,
aware mind need no longer be engaged, as the new behaviour,
attitude or response becomes "normal" and run by themselves.
Rather than think of the unwanted behaviours being
a result of "evil, primeval forces" deep within the
unconscious mind, like demons that must be exorcized,
it is much more useful to think of the unconscious
as being similar to the hard drive in a computer.
The conscious mind can be thought of as the programmer
or keyboard. Once the behaviour,
attitude, etc., is programmed in, the hard drive runs
it automatically, even if the program is no longer
useful.
Why learn NLP? To learn how to reprogram, to change
and place on automatic what you do
want, and edit out what you don't
want. Once learned, NLP puts you in a position of
choice, and you are the one deciding on which changes
occur.
Change fits two categories - "Easy, that is you just
go ahead and do it," and "Wish I could, but I can't."
NLP supplies the information necessary for the second
category to be addressed effectively.
To
explore EFT further, and give you an understanding
of how you can use it in your daily life, please
check out the numerous articles, written by international
NLP experts in our archived
newsletters.
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