Continuing on with the NLP Presuppositions.

If you have not read the preceding postings on Presuppositions, to fully appreciate what NLP Presuppositions are are, please refer to Parts 1, Part 2, and Part 3

This posting will discuss: 10. People have all the resources they need to succeed, 11. All procedure should increase wholeness, and  12. There are no mistakes, there is only feedback.

10. People have all the resources they need to succeed   We have an enormous knowledge reservoir and many more skills within our neurology of which we are not consciously aware. 

It all depends on where we habitually position our focus whenever we commence or continue a project.  

If we habitually focus on what we cannot do in any given situation, or the difficulties in starting a project then we are automatically closing ourselves off from inspiration, imagination, creativity, everything that is available when accessing the right-brain mode and our subconscious mind. 

If we believe we can, we can.  That is for sure.  We may need to develop some skills, acquire or extend our current conscious knowledge base, but it is in us to be able to do anything. You have heard the saying that we can be, do, have anything we want.   Operate on that premise. 

Operate ecologically on that premise, and the universe is your oyster. 

Albert Einstein said that we are limited by the boundary conditions of our thinking. 

He also said that imagination is more important than knowledge. 

Where we are today is the direct result of our imagination, and it is with our imagination and focus that we can alter than position. 

11. All procedure should increase wholeness 

There was a time in therapeutic history when it was believed that people could have multiple personalities, and each ‘part’ was to be treated separately.  In 1957, a movie was screened  illustrating this: “The Three Faces of Eve” starring Joanna Woodward, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of the triple-personality character, Eve. 

Today it is believed that the whole is in the part and the part in the whole.  We are wholistic beings. 

No angst or joy in us ever operates in isolation. 

Every part of us is connected whether in the physical plane, the mental plane, or the spiritual realm, everything affects all aspects of our being. 

This means that the root cause of an issue, affecting the total person needs to be identified to bring healing and ‘wholeness’ to the client. 

It is important to identify the root cause, as the immediately observable cause may just be a decoy. 

There is an NLP process called Parts Integration which can assist this.

12. There are no mistakes, there is only feedback 

An empowering way to look at everything that occurs in your life is to look at it as a learning experience. 

The majority of people do not sabotage their life deliberately. 

Whatever choices we make, we do so believing, on some level, that we are making the right decision. 

If, at a later date, we believe that it would have been better to have taken another course of action, we need to evaluate the usefulness of this thinking. 

Hindsight is an amazing experience.  It can be quite destructive if not seen for what it really is. 

Hindsight is looking at a situation with a mind that has developed significantly from the mind that originally made the decision. 

There is, therefore, no point in assessing the situation, that is utilising a process comparing the two minds. 

No only is your mind different, but the internal and external circumstances surrounding that decision are different.  

The empowering way to view a situation that has not gone the way you planned it is to ask yourself:  

“What can I learn from this result?”  “What am I not getting that I need to get to have the outcome I want?”  

Sometimes things do not turn out the way we wanted them to because it is in our best interest that we need to take a different course of action.