WHAT IS NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING? (NLP)

NLP is a branch of psychology with multiple areas of application including, but not limited to psychotherapy, coaching, business, sales and athletics.

BASIC TENETS OF NLP

People do not operate on reality.  They operate on their internal maps of reality.  These maps are always imperfect.  NLP helps us to understand our maps and improve them.

 

• People perceive the world through their senses.  People’s thoughts and emotions are internal images, conversations and sounds, physical sensations, and remembered tastes and smells.  In NLP we call these internal channels visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and olfactory/gustatory.  By describing internal processes in these terms, we can describe to others our internal ways of thinking and feeling.
  
  
• Human thoughts, behaviors and feelings have structures, or patterns.  NLP improves these structures, so that people have increased flexibility in their thinking, behavior, and feelings.
  
  
• Self-improvement methods are not useful, lasting, or effective if they conflict with a person’s core needs and values.  NLP teaches people to honor their needs and values in order to feel congruent about the changes they make.
  
  
• The causes of some behaviors and emotions lie outside conscious awareness.  NLP works with both the conscious mind and the “subconscious” mind, through hypnotic processes.
  
  
• People communicate both verbally and nonverbally.  NLP helps people to better understand the meaning of both kinds of communication.
  
  
• People have the internal resources they need to make the changes they desire.  NLP helps people to access these resources.
  
  
• Most behaviors, even problematic ones, are based on underlying positive intentions, which may reside in the unconscious mind.  NLP brings about the insights that explain these underlying motivations.

NLP PROCESSES TEACH PEOPLE TO

• Understand and communicate their thought processes more coherently
• See problems from a new perspective
• Steer their thinking in a new direction
• Access personal strengths and inner resources
• Focus on the solution, rather than on the problem
• Focus on what can be done, rather than on why something happened
• Heal traumatic events of the past
• Feel empowered to cope with difficulties more effectively
• Think optimistically about future possibilities
• Gain insight into the unconscious sources of some behaviors
• Feel congruent about the changes they make in their lives
• Expand their behavioral choices to allow for greater flexibility
  
  
  -From Judith E. Pearson’s “The Weight, Hypnotherapy and YOU”
  
  NLP exercises are incorporated into many of the services Infinite Evolution offers. 
  The opportunities for growth with NLP are endless, exciting and forever evolving.