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What is NLP? Simply
speaking, NLP® is a way of running your own mind developed by Richard Bandler
and John Grinder in the middle 1970’s.
It was originally distilled from the language and methods used my Fritz
Pearls, Gestalt Psychologist, Virginia Satir, Family Therapist and Milton
Erickson, world renowned hypnotheraptist, medical doctor and
psychiatrist. It also has some
roots in the ideas of Gregory Baetson and General Semantics (“The map is not
the territory”). NLP® has a very
close relationship to hypnosis, because so much of it was taken from Bandler
and Grinder’s studies of Milton Erickson. The most notable difference you
will find, however, is you do not need to “go into trance” to get the changes
you desire. Bandler actually
believes that we are always in one kind of state or another and we can
temporarily elicit any state we want, keep it steady for a few moments and
use it. So, instead of lying
back relaxing to sound of your hypnotist’s voice, you can often change while
you are talking to the NLP® practitioner or while you are doing some
exercises in imagination. These
exercises, some only seconds in length, are used to adjust what they call
submodalities, which are the sounds, feelings, colors, brightness, sizes that
you use to represent the world and experience the world. When the submodalities change, the
way you view the world changes.
When you view the world differently, you begin to feel and act
differently, in ways that are infinitely more comfortable. |
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Since
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