CHAPTER 5 - NEURO LINGUISTIC
PROGRAMMING (NLP)
NLP – an overview
1970 saw the development of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
by John
Grinder and Richard Bandler.
The three most important facets of human experience are summed up in the
name itself. Our neurological functions, our
ability to communicate using
spoken and written language and programming – education, learning, systems of
social organization – are the things that set the human animal apart.
Our bodies are equipped with incredibly complex neurological pathways that
govern how our bodies work. As speaking beings, we are able to engage in
intricate communication with others. The models we create, from education to
engineering, to community are a hallmark and perhaps a summation of the other
two facets of the name of this school of practice. NLP is an effort to deconstruct
and understand the dynamics which exist between the brain and the language we
use.
In so understanding, we’re enabled to reconstruct those dynamics in ways
that more readily serve people.
So, what does NLP strive to achieve? It is a proven fact that we don’t utilize our
brains to their fullest potentials. In fact, it’s verifiably true that most of us use
only about 10% of the brain’s incredible capacity. NLP can help you increase
your brain’s
overall function and thus, your effectiveness in life, especially at
work.
With the help of NLP, you can either strive to excel at a given field or
achieve holistic development. But NLP is also being used by hypnotherapists to
treat a number of disorders, both psychological and physical. Essentially, NLP
posits that through the agency of “modelling” (taking
on the traits observed in
exemplary people), we can, ourselves, be exemplary.
NLP dependents somewhat on individual intelligent quotient and utilizes this
foundation to motivate people to achieve greater command of their potential.
More often than not, we tend to think one thing and act in a completely different
manner, which is often due to the disruption between our thoughts and actions.
NLP helps to reduce this dissonance between our thought processes and our
actions and produces greater harmony between what we know/think and what
we do. It also helps to stabilize the thought process and helps us to make more
fully-considered
decisions, even in the heat of the moment. In other words, it
helps us to see the big picture, by expanding our ability to collate the vast variety
of data that presents itself in the decision-making process thereby adding
enhanced perspective. NLP seeks to help us more
effectively manage all the
incoming information we use to arrive at decision.
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