NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming…

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Neuro = NEUROLOGY
The physical components as well as the mental and emotional components of our neurology

 

Linguistic = LANGUAGE
Linguistics pertains to the language that you use, and more specifically, how you communicate with others and more importantly, how you communicate with yourself

 

Programming = FUNCTION
Perceiving your mind as your internal operating system, Programming is the way our past experiences, thoughts and emotions affect all areas of our lives

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Learning NLP is like learning the language of your own mind!
Let’s make this simpler with an example…

 

Have you ever tried to communicate with someone who didn’t speak your language, and they couldn’t understand you? The classic example of this is when someone goes out to a restaurant in a Foreign country and they think they ordered steak, but when the food shows up, it turns out they actually asked for liver stew.

 

This is the kind of relationship that most of us have with our own unconscious mind. We might think we are “ordering up” more money, a happy, healthy relationship, peace with our family members, and being able to stick to a healthy diet…but unless that’s what showing up, then something is probably getting lost in translation.

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What is NLP? Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of excellent communication–both with yourself, and with others and is often described as a user manual for your conscious and unconscious mind. It was developed by modeling excellent communicators and therapists who got results with their clients

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NLP is described as a user manual for your conscious and unconscious mind

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) offers an opportunity to:

EXPLORE PROCESSES

Explore how your mind and emotions process in achieving goals

RELEASE EMOTIONS

How to let go of negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and behaviors

SHIFT MINDSETS

Create a mindset that helps you achieve lasting results

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NLP is the practice of understanding how people organise their thinking, feeling, language and behaviour to produce the results they do. NLP provides people with a methodology to model outstanding performances achieved by geniuses and leaders in their field. NLP is also used for personal development and for success in business

A key element of NLP is that we form our unique internal mental maps of the world as a product of the way we filter and perceive information absorbed through our five senses from the world around us

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Neuro

Each individual has established their own unique mental filtering system for processing the millions of bits of data being absorbed through the senses. Our first mental map of the world is constituted of internal images, sounds, tactile awareness, internal sensations, tastes and smells that form as result of the neurological filtering process. The first mental map is called ‘First Access’ in NLP.

Linguistic

We then assign personal meaning to the information being received from the world outside. We form our second mental map by assigning language to the internal images, sounds and feelings, tastes and smells, thus forming everyday conscious awareness. The second mental map is called the Linguistic Map (sometimes known as Linguistic Representation)

Programming

The behavioural response that occurs as a result of neurological filtering processes and the subsequent linguistic map.