What is NLP?

February 14, 2011 - 0:0

Or Neuro-Linguistic Programming? Or even Neurolinguistic Programming?

NLP is a bit like an 'owners manual' for your brain! At school and college we learned wonderful things like history and geography and algebra but we did not learn much about how to feel good or to have great relationships. That's where NLP comes in. NLP is a set of insights and skills...
...with which you can actively use your mind and your emotions and your body to run your own life more successfully and to communicate with other people with 'extra-ordinary' effectiveness.
NLP is an ever-growing collection of information and insights, backed up by a huge range of mental NLP Techniques that can enable you to improve how you think, behave and feel - and assist others do the same. Becoming skilled in NLP will enable you to:
do whatever you already do reasonably well, even better
acquire skills and attitudes to do what you cannot do right now, but would like to be able to do
think more clearly
communicate more effectively with others
manage your thoughts, moods and behaviors more effectively. NLP: ‘the study of success’
NLP has been variously described as the technology of the mind, the science of achievement, and the study of success. It is based upon the search for and the study of the factors which account for either success or failure in human performance. For over thirty years NLP explorers have studied or ‘modelled’ the behaviour and thinking styles of particularly effective and successful people in business, education, sales, therapy, sport, and personal development.
The results of this work are nowadays presented in workshops and extended trainings which, in effect, provide shortcuts to more successful living - you learn in hours what may have taken the experts years to discover by trial and error.
How is it possible to be an idiot... or an expert?
At our Pegasus NLP courses we consider that the question how is it possible to be an idiot or an expert? expresses the essence of the NLP attitude and skills. This is because with NLP we can identify the attitude and the skills that produces either type of performance. In a practical and very down-to-earth way we are able to use NLP to:
- Identify the 'ingredients' of excellent performance i.e. what it is it that they do that is different from less-expert people. - Systematically introduce these 'ingredients' into our own performance using NLP techniques and... - ...equally important, we can look at the ingredients of less-than-successful performance, in ourselves or in others, and use NLP to change or replace these.
(Source: Nlp-now.co.uk)