This will be a multi-part introduction into ways to "code" your own mind and if they accept, also the mind of others. As a programmer on the one hand and a marketing guy on the other hand, this is the kind of input that keeps me busy and that crosses the bridge between the two main focusses of my life.
NLP is an abbreviation, meaning:
Neuro Linguistic Programming
The brain / hardware (Neuro) will be consistently changed (Programming) using the help of language (Linguistic).
Richard Bandler, one of the founders of NLP once said:
NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves a trail of techniques behind.
Some History:
The two founders of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder started their big mission in the early 70's. Their main goal was to find out, why some therapists are extremely effective solving problems of their clients with only few sessions, while other therapists even with a huge number of sessions couldn’t solve their clients at all. Sure every case is different, but with big numbers, there is still an average with a strong correlation. The big question to be asked was: "What makes the difference?"
Bandler and Grinder started to analyze the work of some of the most effective therapists of their time concerning verbal and nonverbal approaches they used to work with their clients. The focus was to boil down the ways, strategies, plots they used in specific situations to their core elements. The three first therapists they analyzed, have been Fritz Perls (Founder of "gestalt therapy"), Virginia Satir (Founder of the "family therapy") and Milton H Erickson, who was probably the most important hypnotherapist of the last century.
After the analysis, they extracted only what they believed to be "working". This essence, they put it into their own system. The point was to find the difference that makes the difference. They started working with this newly found derivative of knowledge and constructed and formed these insights into a system that was teachable and learnable. The first name they gave to this system was "Modelling of Excellence" and the first book that was published about the matter was called "The Structure of Magic" – a quite fitting title to something that was seen as something quite magical at the time.
In the following years NLP developed their own methods based on this stable basis. The new methods always stayed in this initial spirit, pragmatically finding out the essence of the relevant parts. So today NLP is a highly functional and functioning way to change or manipulate subjective experiences based on the knowledge derived from family-, hypno- and gestalt-therapy.
The 8 Axioms of NLP
translated and partly copied from this source
Axioms are basic or key assumptions, building the basis of a doctrine that neither can be proven nor rebutted. Most of the axioms of NLP cannot withstand to rigorous scientific criteria as they can’t really be considered separately. So these “Axioms” should be seen as convictions and guiding principles underlying the use of NLP. Based on these principles most NLP – people work with their coaches as well as with their clients. Of course also while shaping their own lives.
- The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is more often valuable than changing the content of our experience of reality.
- The meaning of the communication is the response you get.
- All distinctions human beings are able to make concerning our environment and our behavior can be usefully represented through the visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory senses.
- The resources an individual needs in order to effect a change are already within them.
- The map is not the territory.
- The positive worth of the individual is held constant, while the value and appropriateness of internal and / or external behavior is questioned.
- There is a positive intention motivating every behavior, and a context in which every behavior has value.
- Feedback vs. Failure. - All results and behaviors are achievements, whether they are desired outcomes for a given task/context, or not.
First Conclusion:
Neither am I able, nor educated to teach NLP to any of you reading this article, but I will try to give you an impression of what people are able to do for themselves and also for others. Also I want to give a hint of what is behind NLP. As a marketing guy, these principles are key to a lot of my work and I use these techniques since almost 20 years.
If you are interested in more information about that topic, follow this series and if you can’t wait to learn more, I suggest to google the three mentioned therapists: Erickson, Satir and Perls. There are also some videos on youtube available about these three. The videos are old and of a very bad quality, but the content is fresh, amazing and enlightening!
Please comment below if you are interested in learning more about NLP!
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