| You are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. | ||
| Barbara Hall, Author, Summons to New Orleans (2000) | ||
NLP
What is NLP?
During the 1970's Richard Bandler and John Grinder developed Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and at its core is the work of Dr Milton Erickson, probably the most influential hypnotherapist of the twentieth century. NLP has been defined as the psychology of excellence as it identifies someone who's extraordinary at doing something, finds out how they do things so well and then teaches others how to do it. Everything we have ever seen and experienced is coded and stored in our memories. NLP is about understanding how this coding is done as we use this interpretation of reality to make sense of the world and events. When we know how information is coded we can learn how to change how we feel about it.
Recent developments in NLP have lead to Humanistic Neuro-Linguistic Psychology (HNLP™) which is influenced by quantum physics, neuro-science, hypnosis, accelerated learning, and most of all common sense. HNLP™ has been described as the study of how mind creates reality through language and behaviour.
How can NLP help?
Working with a Practitioner NLP offers the opportunity to develop tools to learn more about yourself. By giving you insights into how and why you do what you do, you will gain options. This puts you in the position of deciding whether to continue doing something, whether to improve the way you do it or change how you do it. You can reassess how you feel about things as HNLP™ offers tools to learn more about yourself and this gives you the freedom to choose to change a harmful or restrictive behaviour. These tools can help you to make powerful changes in many areas of your life. These changes can be sustained, allowing you to permanently change unhelpful or limiting behaviours. You gain greater control and more flexibility: you could even get to live the life you really want.
NLP is also an enhanced means of communicating with others using the whole range of clues including body language, tone of voice as well as the words actually used. This can also allow you to understand others better and enable you to communicate with others much more effectively. Others' behaviour will no longer seem unpredictable.
What can it help?
NLP therapy shares common ground with hypnosis as they work with patterns of behaviour. NLP can help whatever you would like it to help.