As teaching other languages is one of my specialties and one of my favorite occupations the area of language in NLP is also one of my favourites.

The language you use, whether it’s the small-talk that you indulge in within your mind, or whether it’s the language you use when you converse with others, will determine what success you have in your communications and in your life generally.

The spectrum of language within the field of NLP is enormous.

Make use of this link, if you wish to listen to the 4.54 minute AUDIO.

Just to give you a few examples, NLP deals with language in the following areas:• Communication – with self or others

• When requiring precision-type questions

• Using hypnotic language

• When making use of metaphors

• When applying the Meta Programs

• Delving into the beliefs behind the communication

This is just to name a few areas.

Each of these areas will be addressed in more detail in future postings.

The language you use is just so, so important; it is incredibly powerful as one of your internal filters.

If you listen to yourself within the course of a day’s communication, I mean really listen to yourself, you will hear yourself saying cliché after cliché, stereotypical expressions, jargon or buzzwords of the day, with very little that is really your unique way of expressing yourself.

There are times when using popular expressions is the only way to express an idea, for example, there is no better way to say, what is implied in the jargon, 24/7.

The language you use will either take you to unexplored territory in your mind, and consequently in your physical world, or it can confine you within the boundary conditions of your current mind.

Many people’s lives and their potential evolution is limited by the boundary conditions of their thinking.

This is an appropriate moment to remind you of the article on focus.

Are you like the Samurai warrior who can see 360° around himself or can you only see within the tunnel in front of you?

Language determines what you think about and how you think; this will in turn determine how you see your current life and how you envisage your life in the future.

It is said that when you speak or hear people’s words, you actually see pictures in your mind, i.e. you translate everything into pictures.

Since whatever you focus on, you create, it’s vital that you are conscious of the movies you are running in your mind.

As Dr.John Demartini says: ‘What you think about and thank about, you bring about.’

Rather a wake-up call, isn’t it?

From now on, it would be an advantage for you to be aware of the words you use, the feelings that these words encourage both in yourself and in others.

This is actually quite a lot of fun, and once you start on this journey, you will find that you become so aware of what you say that most times, you will be running the pictures through your mind before you say the words, and will have edited what do you planned to say, before you say it.

And that is a good thing most of the time, I can assure you.