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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