Welcome to the world of NLP (Neuro-linguistic Programming): a powerful and open psychology, renowned for rapid and precise results. Join me for news and discussion of consciousness and applied psychology, particularly NLP, work in settings as diverse as Education, business, sports, health care, Counselling, Therapy, Management, Self development, etc.
As a student of NLP literature, I like reading and good reading at that. What I have noticed over the years is that reading is becoming out of fashion or even if people do read, it’s either out of compulsion because of course syllabus or what they read can easily be called ‘trash’.
Learning is natural. We learn all the time; it is part of adapting to changing circumstances. However, we do not always think of this as learning and do not usually pay conscious attention and awareness unless you are mucking for an upcoming school exam!
Learning is not the same as education; it is not the same as teaching either. Learning always involves self-development - learning to act differently, think differently and feel differently.
*You Cannot Have A Teacher Without A Learner:
Teaching cannot exist as an activity by itself. It makes no sense to say "I taught the subject but the students did not learn it". This is similar to the joke "The operation was a success but the patient died!" The teacher is also a learner, although they will learn something different from the person they are teaching. Learning can also be a solo event that does not require a physical teacher to "teach" you. That’s why I teach what I most need to learn.
What will I learn?
You'll learn how to...
Use both body language and choice of words to create the feeling of rapport easily and quickly, creating more cooperation at home and work. Set, and help others to set, more effective, measurable and achievable goals.
Identify and predict the decisionmaking and thinking processes that others use, by observing precise body language changes. Make the perfect next move to support each person.
Use your own body language and words to communicate exactly what you intend, being powerfully persuasive, convincing and inspiring others on both a conscious and unconscious level.
Use others objections and disagreement as useful information with which to develop solutions that work for both you and them. Work with another person's way of thinking and understanding the world to help them clarify what they actually want, and reach their own goals successfully.
Use and teach others to use perfect visual memory (a technique which research at Monkton university shows can increase your memory by 61% in one session).
Be able to enter a state of high motivation and confidence, or a state of deep relaxation, at will in any situation.
The Brain And NLP:
A number of the factors I have discussed in this article create choices for an NLP Practitioner wanting to help a client transfer functional skills to the neural networks where they are needed. To summarise what we have said about the brain with this in mind:
The brain responds to visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory-gustatory and auditory digital (verbal) cues. Remember the lemon!
Each of these modalities is run by a particular area of the cortex (outer brain).
The sensory organs are only indirectly connected to the areas of the cortex that analyse their data. On the way, the deeper areas of the brain where emotion and memories are stored influence the results of perception.
Within each modality (sensory system) in the cortex, there are specific smaller areas which adjust the qualities of that sensory experience (the 'submodalities'). These include such qualities as colour and distance, visually. When these submodalities change, the person's "feeling state" about the experience will change.
Memories and imagined experiences are run through the same sensory areas of the brain as new experiences. The submodalities of our memories and our imaginings are altered by our emotional state as we think of those memories or imagine those possibilities.
All the outcomes people generate in their brain are the result of a series of internal sensory "representations". In NLP such a series is called a strategy.
As people run through a strategy, and access information from the different modalities, there are a number of ways we can observe their thinking in these modalities. By watching their eye movements, we can see which area of the brain they are drawing information from. By listening to their words, we can hear which sensory system they are using to re-present the information to themselves.
Strategies can be thought of as having a trigger that starts them (also called an "anchor" in NLP), an operation where the person acts and collects information in some sense, a test where the person checks whether the results they got are the results they wanted, and an exit where they act based on this test. This sequence is
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