Neuro Linguistic Programming

Neuro – relates to how we process information through our senses and nervous system.
Linguistic – relates to our use of language and communication both verbal and non-verbal.
Programming – relates to our actions/behaviours (the programmes we are running).

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) was created in the 1970′s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. They studied therapists who achieved amazing results, such as Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir. They also studied people who had resolved their own problems to find the common factors of the solutions, so they could teach this to other people enabling them to achieve the same successful results.

Over the years these techniques have been refined and developed, and NLP has become renowned for its speed and success at eliminating a vast array of problems. Our brains learn extremely quickly, we can develop a phobia from just one brief exposure to a frightening situation; however behaviours are not set in stone, with NLP we can remove unwanted behaviours and replace them with new productive ones extremely quickly.

Basically throughout our lives we learn to behave in particular ways. Sometimes we continue these behaviours even though we don’t want to, and often when we know they are unhelpful and unnecessary, simply because this is the programme our mind is running.

NLP works on the basis that all behaviour has a structure. It is often referred to as ‘a users guide to your brain’, essentially because when we understand how our brain represents an experience, we are then able to change the structure of the representation.

NLP changes (re-programmes) how we think, how we communicate with ourselves and others, and how we act. When we can control our thoughts, we can control our feelings and change our behaviours using NLP to delete unwanted behaviours and install new positive ones.

I am a Licensed Master NLP Practitioner and was trained by Richard Bandler (creator of NLP) at Paul McKenna Training.