NLP is one of the fastest growing fields of applied psychology. It is
about creativity, learning and change, and how you construct your
reality.
THE ORIGINS OF NLP
In the mid-seventies, Tom Peters was looking for the strategies for
excellence in organisations. At about the same time, John Grinder and
Richard Bandler were looking for the strategies for excellence at the
individual level. Under the influence of the profoundly original British
thinker, Gregory Bateson, John and Richard modeled the skills of some
of the leading masters of communication and personal change.
They called what they were doing Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
‘Neuro’ refers to the neurological processes of seeing, hearing,
feeling, smell and taste, which form the basic building blocks of our
experience.
‘Linguistic’ refers to the ways we use language to represent our
experience and communicate with others.
‘Programming’ refers not to programming, as in computers, but rather to
the strategies we use to organize these inner processes to produce
results.
By developing a practical understanding of how we learn, we can
learn how to achieve results that often seem magical. Put simply, the
world we each live in is not the real world. It is a model of the world
that we create unconsciously and live in as though it were real. Most
human problems derive from the models in our heads rather than from the
world as it really is. As you develop your practical understanding of
how these inner models work, you can learn to change unhelpful
habits, thoughts, feelings and beliefs for more useful ones. NLP skills
offer specific and practical ways of making desired changes in your own
and others’ behavior. NLP is the “know how” that works for human
behavior! So now you can ask yourself: how would you like to redesign
your life? And what could you achieve in both your personal and
professional life if you know how?
HOW DOES NLP WORK?
Modeling skills lie at the heart of NLP. They are the tools of the
study of human excellence and from that study, patterns emerge:
patterns of similarity, patterns of difference. Modeling enables us to
discover the difference between competence and excellence in any given
area of human activity. Increasingly, NLP is being used to cultivate the
skills of outstanding performance in training, business, management,
sales, coaching, counseling, education, sports, and the performing
arts. Within each field, the NLP modeling process is producing many
skills, techniques and ways of thinking that significantly improve
bottom line results.
NLP increases awareness and choice. The skills offer you a practical
way of achieving a highly generative learning ability with which to
produce better results in the areas of your choice. Learning to learn
more effectively may be one of the best investments you can make in a
changing world.
Q: What are the presuppositions of NLP? A: Here are some of them.
1.No one is wrong or broken. People work perfectly to accomplish what
they are currently accomplishing.
2.People already have all the resources they need.
3.Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
4.Every behavior is useful in some context.
5.The meaning of a communication is the response you get.
6.If you aren’t getting the response you want, do something different.
7.There is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.
8.In any system, the element with the most flexibility exerts the most influence.
9.The map is not the territory.
10.If someone can do something, anyone can learn it.
11.You cannot fail to communicate.
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