"NLP May Be The Most Powerful Vehicle For Change In Existence!"

Source - Modern Psychology

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) began in the early 1970s when two Americans, a mathematician called Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder, asked themselves a simple but fascinating question: "What is it that makes the difference between somebody who is merely competent at any given skill, and somebody who excels at the same skill?"

Several extraordinary therapists that Bandler and Grinder studied had amazing success with their clients. They decided to build formal models of the linguistic and behavioural patterns of three of them. Virginia Satir, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls.Bandler and Grinder named the process that they developed in the course of their work modelling, and it was the foundation of the body of knowledge that became NLP.

People who are masters of their field often cannot explain just how they achieve such excellent results. They are operating at the level of unconscious competence - they perform without thinking about what they're doing. As a result, it's very difficult for them to teach their skills to someone else.

Modelling provides tools and techniques to "break down" masterful performance into its component elements: strategies, beliefs, physiology and more. With this information, it's much easier to teach that skill to another person and enable them to produce the very same excellent results.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming presupposes that the behaviour of an individual can be changed by use of the specific language and by constantly updating and upgrading individuals "mental software".

NLP allows you to change, adopt, or eliminate behaviours as you desire. It provides you with skills and ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well being at any time. You learn how to improve your communication skills, internally and externally. This transforms your relationships and outcomes.

With NLP, you learn to grow from every life experience, thus increasing your capacity to create a better quality of life. NLP provides you with a profound set of tools for personal and professional development.

NLP is a synthesis of a number of disciplines and offers a systematic means of achieving consistently outstanding results across a broad spectrum of human experience. It has been successfully applied in a wide range of fields including business, health care, sport, therapy education and the performing arts.

NLP techniques can be applied in the following major areas:

Personal development:

Physical and emotional well-being is greatly enhanced and individuals learn what they want to take charge of their lives. They become able to change limiting beliefs and to better understand and achieve their own potential.
Personal counselling: Certain problems among individuals such as allergy, phobia, trauma, unwanted habits such as nail biting, snoring and the like can be relieved by using NLP. Counsellors report a great increase in the effectiveness of their results with clients and their interventions are usually brief and successful.

Family counselling:

Problems concerning family members, such as, between husband and wife, parents and children and the like can be resolved by improving the quality of communication between the members of the family. NLP improves the perspectives of individuals and can assist to build up a mutually supportive relationship.

Managers and Entrepreneurs:

Use the information to develop strong teamwork and relationships, and to foster positive interpersonal skills. Negotiations and problem solving sessions are enhanced to create solutions orientated, win-win approaches.

Sales and Marketing:

Salespeople learn to build deep levels of rapport and can be helped to communicate more effectively with the customers so that the credibility and the goodwill of the organisation is conveyed. As well as this, NLP greatly assists in improving qualification of customers and highly efficient ways of communicating with customers to promote and sell your service or product.

Education:

NLP is widely used in improving the educational system. The problems of students/teachers can be improved by applying the NLP concepts. Cases such as Attention Deficiency Disorder (ADD), Learning Deficiency (LD), hyper active children and the like can be relieved by use of NLP techniques. Stage fear, "examination fear'' and adverse feelings towards certain subjects can be addressed effectively by use of NLP. And, one of the greatest advances of NLP in the field of education is the ability to assist anyone in increasing their grades by improving their learning "mental software" and implementing states of super-learning.

Sports:

Excellence in sports is a state of mind and unless the sportsmen are in a highly resourceful state, they cannot be performing at their best. NLP can be used to improve the state of resourcefulness of sportsmen.

Creativity:

People who are in creative fields such as writing, acting and the like can be helped to improve their creative ability through NLP techniques. Since NLP addresses the conscious and subconscious mind, people who have to use their creative talents can be helped to perform at their optimum level.

Organisational development:

People find increased productivity and motivation for themselves and their staff. Negotiation, presentation and influencing skills are enhanced. By improving the process of communication, an organisation can reach a wider cross section of employees so that the intention of the communication is understood and not necessarily only the content. The relationship between the management and the union, the management and the employees, the management and the suppliers can be improved using the NLP approach.