As introduction, what do these words, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, stand for?

In brief:

Neuro refers to whatever is in the neurological domain of your being

Linguistic refers to the selective language you use when talking to others or in your self-talk within the following categories

  • Visual
  • Auditory
  • Kinesthetic
  • Olfactory
  • Gustatory
  • Words (including self-talk)

as a result of the variety of stimuli you receive every second of your life.

Programming

Programming refers to using all the skill sets and techniques of modeling desired states to re-program your neurology in order to shift how you perceive your internal and external reality, accessing inner resources to produce lasting, empowering change.

So what would a definition of NLP be? NLP has a myriad of definitions. Briefly:

  • Richard Bandler, one of the co-creators of NLP, described it as being, “an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques’’
    • The attitude is the attitude of curiosity, ie watching experts doing what they do, and discovering how the ‘magic’ that resulted is achieved
    • We can replicate any behaviour using the tools of NLP, ie role modeling and transferring the results to somebody else
    • We take what the expert does and turn it into a technique

·  Bandler also described NLP as, “the study of subjective experience”

  • Everyone experiences the world in a different way – a different Model of the World
    • Some experience the world to be an abundant place
    • Others experience the world as a poor place, where one has to struggle

·  NLP could be described as, “How to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve your specific and desired outcomes”

·  Christopher Howard describes NLP as, “the psychology of achievement and of inner-personal communication”