People Building

NLP is an understanding of how we code our life experiences and give them meaning. By understanding this, we can use strategies and techniques to create change in our behaviour and results, which help us to maximise our potential. More and more people are realising the value of NLP in enabling them to become more effective in their chosen field. In fact, NLP techniques and models are now being used in a diverse range of areas including education, business and human resources, sport, personal development and health.

Business

NLP techniques enhance a variety of business activities. They are often present in courses about selling, presenting and team-building. Other applications include: teaching people to communicate more effectively and persuasively, public speaking and presentations, detecting decision-making strategies in others, enhancing training by belief and value work. All of which are practical tools to achieve peak performance and boost motivation. That’s jolly handy if you’re one of those important people who has to wear a suit to work.

Education

NLP provides a model of how we communicate with ourselves and others and can be used in teaching to improve the ability to impart information. For example, identifying the natural learning styles of others, using presuppositions and language patterns to elicit states in learners that are congruent with learning. What this means is that just by using specific language techniques you will be able to activate interest and desire to listen and learn. Teachers can discover how to meet the needs of individual learning styles to offer better opportunities to their students. You can also now access an NLP training course designed just for teachers- called NLP4Teachers (it took ages to come up with that name.) It’s available via our sister-site www.NLP4Kids.org.

Sport

Sports men and women use NLP to access instant motivation and achieve consistent peak performance.

NLP is used by sport coaches to aid their clients in reaching and maintaining performance levels. Interventions include modelling and learning successful strategies from leaders in sporting fields, setting performance goals and overcoming plateaus and blocks.

Health and Therapy

NLP offers a cognitive model and practical tools that can help you improve the health of yourself and others. It is becoming widely accepted within mainstream healthcare that there is a link between our thoughts, behaviour and health. NLP practitioners who choose to work within therapy can help individuals lead more satisfying lives in a number of ways. This may include, helping individuals to change limiting beliefs, habits and behaviour, facilitating people to manage states and emotions and helping individuals to find meaning in life by setting achievable well-formed goals. For those interested in helping others or themselves to be free of negative emotions from the past, NLP is widely used in therapeutic environments due to the speed of the therapeutic effect. It’s speedy quick.

10 steps to understanding yourself

• 1. Every second, it is estimated that your nervous system receives around 2 million bits of important sensory data about the events that are happening around you. You interpret this information via your 5 senses, Visually (sight), Auditory (hearing), Kinaesthetic (feeling & touch), Olfactory (smelling) and Gustatory (tasting).

• 2. Of course, we are not aware of 2 million things happening every second (because we’d go crazy!) so our mind filters the information into about 7 bits. In order to filter 2 million bits into 7 bits it deletes some things, distorts and generalises. 
  

  NLP Communication Model

• 3. Deletions are important because they stop us from being bombarded by information that isn’t relevant in the moment. For example as you read this, you were probably not aware of your breathing until it was brought into your awareness. If a person is depressed, they may be deleting happiness from their awareness, NLP uses a linguistic tool called the meta model which can highlight the deletions a person is making.

• 4. Distortions, this is when we make things better or worse than they really are! People do not do this because they are deluded, but because distortions allow us to create or transform information so it is compatible with our perceptions. This is the filter that a fisherman uses when he claims that the 2½ ft fish he caught was about 4 ft long. When a person has a phobia they distort the pictures they make in their mind, so that a spider becomes a man eating spider sitting on your face! The NLP Fast Phobia cure can rapidly remove lifetime phobias.

• 5. Generalisations help us to relate things we are learning to what we already know. It also prevents us from having to relearn something every time we do it, such as riding a bike. Generalisations can be limiting. If a bad experience leaves us with negative beliefs, it limits our world. For example, if someone had a bad experience at the dentist, they may have the belief that all dentists are terrifying. The NLP belief change intervention will replace the disempowering belief with a more positive one.

• 6. Using the 7 bits of information that have filtered we recreate the outside event inside our mind. This is called an internal representation. This mean that what we represent to ourselves inside our minds is never true to what is actually happening in the event (because we have deleted bits, distorted bits and generalised bits). We all Delete, Distort and Generalise differently, so we all have different experiences of life.

• 7. The things we create in our Internal Representation affect the way we feel. In NLP, we call this State.

• 8. Our State affects our Physiology (what we do with our bodies), this is why happy people have a much more upright posture, and depressed people slouch downwards.

• 9. State, Physiology and Internal Representations are interlinked and affect each other. This is why lucky people seem to attract more luck and unhappy people seem to attract more problems. We are designed to attract more of what we focus on.

• 10. Our State, Physiology and Internal Representations account for the behaviour we then exhibit which affects the results we get. Good results or bad results, either way we get results, NLP just ensures you are getting excellent ones!