In the time of the wireless communication and technology developing at an exceedingly unprecedented pace, is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) still a relevant discipline? Is it still worthwhile to pursue?

The answer, fortunately, is still yes. NLP is extremely important to human life because no matter how fast technology develops, the tendencies and capacities of humans are still the same.

Our technology might have changed, but that has not changed the way we perceive reality, the world and those around us. It has not changed how we make strategies to attain our goals.

In fact, NLP is even more relevant now because we need to creatively use all our resources and technologies to continually attain our goals. The technology itself would be useless if human creativity is not included in its application.

NLP Applications and Goals

The technology itself would be useless if human creativity is not included in its application.
Now, here are more specific goals that can be attained with the use of Neuro Lingustic Programming:

1. Speed up your ability to learn new things, regardless of what the new body of knowledge is all about. Your newfound learning ability will also help you deal with change, in whatever form it may come. The change may be in your family or home, in your work or elsewhere. The good news here is that you would be able to adapt more quickly to change because you can learn more quickly, too.

2. Living in this world means you have to be ready for change. And a person’s readiness for change can be measured by the strategies that he uses to deal with change and adapt to different circumstances. With NLP, you will learn how to create new strategies to adapt to a fast-changing world.

3. Many people have many old habits that slow down or choke off completely their ability to grow. The goal of NLP is to identify these old habits and thought patterns and relinquish the person from these bindings, so that he may continue to grow as a person at a faster pace.

4. Receiving feedback from people is often a big problem for many individuals. Many dont like criticism, because criticism is often perceived as completely negative and even injuring to one’s emotions. But did you know that there is a way to transform these so called negative criticisms so you can achieve more success?

5. Social relationships should have quality and should also be beneficial to you and other people. NLP will teach you how to forge these positive, beneficial relationships.

Steve G. Jones, Hypnotherapist to Stars and Founder of the American University of Neuro Linguistic Programming

Many of the great men and women of your time have used the service of a life coach. Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Brad Pitt, Nelson Mandela, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Nicole Kidman and Angelina Jolie have all used services of a life coach. Still, some might wonder: “is this right for me?”

This article only aims to assist you with the thought process. But keep in mind that it’s only you who is totally entitled to making the decision. No one else is.

The first thing to do is to assess your life as it is right now. To help you with that, we’ve provided a small diagram called the ‘Values Compass’. You can access it on our articles page. In this diagram there’s a circle that resembles your life, and around it are your ‘Values’. Values are the things that are most important to you and they could be anything you choose them to be. As an example we’ve chosen health, wealth, family, career etc. The circle is divided by numbered lines, each belonging to a value. These lines and numbers are your satisfaction scale with each value. Circle the number that resembles your current satisfaction, 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. When you’re done numbering your satisfaction for each value, connect the numbers you’ve circled. This represents how your life is right now. If it’s not a circle, or close to a circle, that means your life is unbalanced at the moment. If so, consider the value that’s most important to you and ask yourself:

“continuing like this, how is my life three months from now? A year from now? Three years from now?”

Take a moment and consider each question separately and thoroughly. Really live the experience of being there in the future three months, a year and three years from now when nothing has changed yet. Notice what you see, hear, feel, smell, taste, say to yourself, where you’re at, who you’re with, what you’re doing. If you don’t like that, then it’s time to make a change now.

This is where a life coach can provide immense assistance, but only if one crucial condition is satisfied. We will address this in a minute. A proficient life coach will be able to provide you with the tools that will give you an accurate snap shot of where your life is right now and why. At this stage, you might not know exactly what you want or where you’re heading. An effective life coach will help figure that out with precision and conciseness. Following that, a determined life coach will get you to discover the resources, solutions and all that you need to get there. And finally, your life coach will hold you accountable to taking all the steps that will lead you to accomplish what you want.

But like we’ve mentioned earlier, there is one crucial condition. And that is your desire and commitment to change. The only way you can truly change and get what you desire is if you’re committed to taking action. Your life coach will then be there to provide you with clarity, motivation and accountability to ensure that you make it all the way.

Until next time,

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One of the most important presuppositions of NLP are based on the use of submodalities, “You have all the resources needed to make any change you want.”

In this article, created by the folks at NLP-Mentor, several videos explore the process of “mapping across” during a live demonastration.

Mapping Across – an NLP technique using submodalities – NLP Mentor

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Mapping across transfers the submodalities or elements of a particular state or context to another. It is particularly useful when you want to make a resource state available somewhere else.

Although this appears at first to be a complex process, by practicing a few times with willing participants, you’ll get the hang of it quickly.

An eye opening interview with Frank Pucelik interviewed by Michael Carroll.

Frank Pucelik was around before and during the birth of NLP.  Frank talks about the early practice groups and early sessions led by John Grinder, Richard Bandler and himself..

NLP is a multi-dimensional methodology of communication, personal development and change. It seeks to understand the dynamics and interaction of the human nervous system and mind (neuro), language and communication (linguistic) and the organisation of human thought processes and patterns (programming) to effect positive and beneficial personal change.

If we were to think of the brain as a computer running a large number of ‘programs’ (the brain’s ‘software’), NLP teaches the client to reorganise or re-pattern the way that these ‘programs’ are run to enable dramatic transformations and changes to take place.

The Historical Development of NLP

The development of NLP began in the 1970s when Dr. Richard Bandler & John Grinder set out to understand and model what it was that made the most effective communicators so effective.

Bandler and Grinder believed that therapists were among the most effective communicators as they were able to initiate amazing transformations within their clients apparently just through talking with them. With this in mind, they set about modelling some of the leading therapists of the day, including Fritz Perls (the founder of Gestalt therapy), Virginia Satir (a renowned family therapist) and Milton H. Erickson M.D. (the world’s leading hypnotherapist at that time). In modelling the verbal and non-verbal patterns used by these most elegant and persuasive communicators and proponents of personal change, they identified a variety of patterns that could be used to replicate the astounding results they had observed in the work of these pre-eminent therapists. NLP started out, therefore, as a field to study and model the structure of excellence in communication. This approach to understanding the structure of subjective experience, language and thought processes became known as Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

The field of NLP has continued to develop and be refined over the last thirty years and is now widely used in many areas of change work and personal development. It is not simply a technology to fix problems but seeks to go far beyond that to facilitate ‘generative’ change i.e. to empower the client to make improvements in all areas of their life.

What can I expect from seeing a therapist or life coach trained in NLP?

A session with an NLP trained therapist or life coach will typically be quite conversational with the practitioner using a range of language skills and strong observational and listening skills to elicit precisely how the client is experiencing ‘reality’ and using transformational and hypnotic communication to help the client change their subjective experience of ‘reality’ to gain new perspectives and become aware of the wide range of possibilities and opportunities that are available.

In contrast to many approaches to therapy, NLP works on an assumption that old experiences or traumas do not have to be relived in order for change to occur. NLP believes that all experience is subjective and that we respond to our internal representation of events, not to the events themselves. Experience has a structure inside our minds so if we change the structure, we change the experience.

As human beings, we are driven by a large number of automatic ‘patterns’ or ‘programs’ that are largely outside of conscious awareness. An NLP practitioner will concentrate less on ‘why’ the client is experiencing the issues or problems they are experiencing and more on ‘how’ the client uses certain ‘patterns’ and ‘programs’ to hold the issue, problem or limiting belief in place.

So, the practitioner will focus on understanding the context of the problem (when/where does it occur… when doesn’t it occur?), the process the client goes through in order to produce the problem (what triggers the problem off… when is everything OK?), and the structure of the problem within the clients mind (does the client criticise themselves inside in a harsh tonality first, get a feeling in the stomach and then perhaps make pictures in their mind of things going wrong?).

In much the same way that Bandler and Grinder modelled excellence, an NLP practitioner will seek to understand the structure of their problem and work with the client to interrupt or spoil the limiting pattern and replace it with something more useful. Also, the client will undoubtedly have experienced many positive and resourceful states that can be accessed and utilised to overwrite the previously held limiting behaviour or belief ‘programs’.

Human beings are the most amazing learning machines so if we can easily learn limiting behaviours then we can equally easily learn more useful behaviours and access more resourceful emotional states. A good example of this is a phobia. People can develop debilitating phobias from a single bad experience. It is this capacity to learn rapidly that is utilised by an NLP practitioner to eliminate the phobia just as quickly as it was originally acquired.

There are a large number of powerful techniques that NLP practitioners use to change the structure of how the client subjectively experiences reality and to facilitate permanent and positive changes.

Hypnosis will often also play a part during sessions with an NLP practitioner. Hypnosis is a powerful way to ensure that learnings are integrated into the subconscious more quickly and permanently than perhaps could be achieved without hypnosis. Even if a formal trance induction does not take place during your sessions, you can be sure that a skilled NLP practitioner is communicating at many different levels to help facilitate change.

What can NLP be used for?

NLP is successfully used to overcome phobias, addictions and depression, reduce anxiety and stress, eliminate limiting beliefs, gain greater control over emotional states, improve communication, enhance performance, achieve goals, and perhaps most importantly, find ways to increase the amount of happiness and joy people have in their lives.

Paul Reed is a registered hypnotherapist, psychotherapist, SNLP licensed Master NLP Practitioner and life coach. He runs a private practice at Forum House in the centre of Chichester, West Sussex and also hold sessions in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.

He can be contacted on 01243 869443 or via his websites
www.change-work.co.uk
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