What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming?
Hmmm tricky to put in a nut shell.
Described as a users manual for your brain as you can imagine it’s a constantly developing topic, a mix of cognitive psychology, psycotherapuetic language and a smidge of hypnotherapy.
Neuro means brain and Linguistic means language, so basically it’s the relationship between what our brain understands and believes and experieneces and the language is has been exposed too. Though language would not just be our vocubluary its also the language of our other senses, sight, sound, touch, smell taste and the huge array of variances in each one of those. How our brain either creates or perceives that information can shape our experience of the world.
So we all have little habits, rituals or programmes that we do. Some are useful to do without thinking about and others are less than useful. So with NLP we can changing the intensity of how we run these little programme.
Two simple examples:
If a person had a phobia to something, they might get a sense of that terrible thing which could start a cascade of emotions and reactions that are way out of line with a reasonable response. But what if they’re initial sense that starts that sequence of events wasn’t as powerful? Simply put they wouldn’t consecutively lead on to an esculating panic and instead would manage the situation far more healthily. So in short the “Phobia” button got disconnected
Or
Maybe we want to feel more of something eg confidence.
Imagine going into a situation feeling less than ideal but knowing you could when called upon push a brilliantly installed “confidence button” BANG suddenly your there firing on all cylinders being who you really want to be and getting the results you deserve.
You want your mind to feel a certain way you can use your body, voice and other skill to do that…. Quickly and vice versa too.
So NLP is the study of and application of excellence. It might be only a little thing that is the difference between excellence and not.