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Neuro- Linguistic programing provides us with a blueprint of reality that shows how others have positively responded to similar stressful situations that we are facing at present. This lets us understand about practical life-situations and how it can be successfully handled. We see the differences in approaches and make conscious efforts to change our attitudes to stressors. Practice of NLP gives us occasion to grow out of our limited capability to face life positively. When encountered with stress or depression, many of us have and applied these principles in our life without even realizing it came from NLP.
`Neuro` refers to the neural network that feeds information to the brain. Neurons or nerve cells are the working units used by the nervous system to receive, store and send signals.
`Linguistics` is about the content (verbal and non-verbal) that moves across and through these networks.
What It Does
Through `programming` stored content or signal is manipulated by brain to convert them into useful information. The brain may direct the signal, sequence it, or change it based on our prior experiences, or connect it to some other experience we have stored in our brain to convert it into thinking patterns, and behaviours.
• NLP is increasingly used in the therapeutic spheres to bring about mind-body healing, attitude change and personal growth.
• It provides the tools that enable a connection between self and others.
• Many of NLP`s tools and applications are widely used in business, management, education, and sports training as effective measures to manage/cure stress, depression and complex personality problems.
• NLP can increase the quality and effectiveness of our relationships, beginning with our personal and intimate relationships to our professional lives.
How It Works
NLP uses our self-image and attitude towards illness to effect change and promote healing in us. It relies heavily on the human sense of hope. When a person loses hope and feels helpless in the face of supposedly incurable diseases such as AIDS or cancer, the body just `quits trying`. If the patient is made aware of his or her inner abilities and what it can accomplish, he or she may see things differently and encourage the body to not to `give in`. In the process the body`s natural healing power may get activated again.
NLP is based on many useful presuppositions supporting the attitude that change in a situation is very much possible. NLP believes flexibility in thinking and not rigidity, is the key element in a stress response. The one, who is most likely to survive a stress, responds positively to changing (or unchanging) circumstances. If what you`re doing isn`t working, try something else, regardless of whether the new method would work for you or not. You may find something else, which has worked for some other person. It is about never losing hope.
Key Presuppositions - Beliefs of Excellence
• Communication is more than what you are saying.
• No one is wrong or broken.
• People already have all the resources they need.
• Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
• Every behavior is useful in some context.
• The meaning of a communication is the response you get.
• If you aren`t getting the response you want, try something different.
• There is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.
• Choice is better than no choice.
• In any system, the element with the most flexibility exerts the most influence.
• The map is not the territory.
• If someone can do something, anyone can learn it.
• You cannot fail to communicate
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Psy.Visesh is a consulting psychologist and certified NLP Trainer from Hyderabad, India. He practices privately in Hyderabad. He has 10 years of training experience, delivering Neuro Linguistic Programming courses to his clients. You can contact him on dearvisesh@gmail.com or +91 94401 35779.
