Later on when people would ask me what NLP was and how it helped me, I found
myself saying things like, “Have you heard of Anthony Robbins? That’s what he
does, he helps people breakthrough stuff, that’s sort of what NLP is.” And I would get a slightly ambiguous look from people, as if they sort of new what I was
talking about, but were also still confused. Then I tried having them imagine that their mind was like a computer, and that NLP was the software that allowed you
to reconfigure the way the computer operated. That got me a little further, but I still had similar confused looks, and that’s because NLP really is such a wide field of study. There’s so many applications, that it can be tricky to define it in one single conversation (unless the person has a good half an hour with you).
NLP can also be defined as a tool or skill that allows you to find out the difference between people who excel in a particular area, and those who don’t. Once you’ve
found what the difference is, NLP can then allow you to take those bread crumbs
of excellence (so to speak), and follow the trail so that you can eventually reach that same level of excellence quicker and easier than the originator. Almost like uploading a new piece of software on your computer.
If you wanted to excel in acting, then you would use NLP to study some of the
Oscar award winning actors such as Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. NLP would allow
you to find out what they do in their minds before getting on set and acting that allowed them to create the type of results on film that you see today – like the
movie Scarface. Maybe you want to feel really good about your body, and so you
seek out someone who feels really good about their body, and you use NLP to
study the way they think about themselves, their body, and how they perceive
the world, and then you apply what you’ve learned to your own experience – by
uploading that program for your own use. Kind of like in the movie, The Matrix,
where Neo gets plugged in and taught a range of martial arts in only a few hours
and in that defining moment he sits up from the chair and looking at Morpheus
says, “I know Kung Fu…”
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This is why NLP is called, “The art and science of personal excellence.”
NLP is broken down into three core parts:
Neuro… This relates to the way we process our experience through the five
senses of touch, sight, smell, hearing, and taste. As the signals get interpreted by us, they are then converted into signals that are sent through our central nervous system where they are then converted in the brain as meaning.
Linguistic… This relates to the way in which we perceive our world through verbal or non-verbal communication. Information enters our central nervous system,
and then gets decoded by our brain so that we can assimilate that information.
This includes pictures, sounds, tastes, smells and words (self-talk).
Programming… This relates to how we go through a particular pattern inside our head that leads to a specific outcome almost every time.
To sum it up, NLP is the technology of using the already pre-set processes of the mind to create a specific result quickly and easily.
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