Just imagine what you would do if
your bread machine arrived without instructions.
That of course, pales in comparison to the immense
complexity of our brains (unimaginably more bake cycles).
Each of us happens to possess in our skulls, the most
sophisticated computer ever conceived of and no one
thought to provide instructions. No wonder changing
how we do the simplest task, often meets with failure.
If you climbed behind the wheel of a car for the very
first time and had no instructions to guide you, how
far do you think you'd get before driving into a ditch
or up a telegraph pole.
So, how do NLP s create the knowledge necessary to
learn how to operate our own minds?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) studies the structure
of how humans think and experience the world. Obviously,
the structure of something so subjective does not
lend itself to precise, statistical formulae but instead
leads to models of how these things work. From these
models, techniques for quickly and effectively changing
thoughts, behaviours and beliefs that limit people
have been developed.
NLP is short for Neuro-Linguistic
Programming
The 'Neuro' acknowledges the fact that we process
information about the world neurologically, using
the brain and the nervous system, through our five
senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. 'Linguistic'
refers to the verbal language that we use to communicate
with each other, as well as our internal thoughts
and our external 'body language'. 'Programming relates
to the 'programs' or patterns of behaviour we all
demonstrate; in other words, the way we organise our
thoughts and our behaviour in order to produce results.
The birth of NLP
NLP evolved in the early seventies out of the work
of two people: John Grinder, then an Assistant Professor
of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa
Cruz, and Richard Bandler, a student of psychology
at the University. They studied three top psychotherapists
in great depth: Fritz Perls, the father of Gestalt
Therapy; Virginia Satir, one of America's top family
therapists; and Milton Erickson, a world-famous hypnotherapist.
John and Richard identified a great many of the underlying
patterns of behaviour and communication that made
these great therapists so effective in assisting people
in changing their lives for the better. They used
what they found to create a set of models of human
skills and capabilities that, for better or worse,
they called "Neuro-Linguistic Programming".
Some of the places where NLP is used
" Psychotherapy and counselling
" Training and Education
" Other caring professions: nursing and medical,
health counselling
" Business: sales, coaching
" Sports
NLP techniques are incorporated in training sessions
with Red Rock.
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For more info on NLP - Link to www.nlpinfo.com