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NLP is defined as the ‘study of the structure of subjective experience’. It turns out that we don’t all experience reality in quite the same way – it is subjective. NLP is concerned with that subjectivity: both with studying it and with studying how it is possible to work with it to produce dramatic change in the lives of people.
The acronymn (NLP) explodes into Neuro-Linguistic Programming; and it has nothing to do with programming because, as I mentioned in my last post on Training the Brain, we don’t actually program our brains – that’s simply a computer-based analogy for what NLP is concerned with. In earlier times, the brain has been thought of as something like a hydraulic-system – again the analogy is a product of its time.
So when we talk about programming the brain, it is important to realise that whilst we attempting to make changes, for the better, the brain is definitely not a computer and is not as simple a device as a computer. That said, I believe that NLP has a lot to offer in particular in the area of modelling excellence. Modelling is just another word for copying.
If we copy the behaviour of another person; copy their body-language; copy their attitudes; copy their speech patterns; would it be possible to reproduce their results? That’s what modelling is all about. A premise of NLP is that is it indeed possible.
We have an excellent little free book on te subject. It’s called NLP in Business and in Life; and you can get your free copy right here ...
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