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Monday, December 01, 2008
NLP training
Many years ago I heard about NLP training, but I just dismissed it. After all, I really didn't know what it was, nor did I really care. I was doing fine, or so I believed. Now a few years later, my business is at a stand still, and I don't really think that it has anything to do with the economy, but more to do with me and my way of thinking. I decided to take a new look into Neuro Linguistic Programming Training and was really amazed with it. I know a big change in perspective, but somehow you can only see things in their own time, a little something that I have learned along the way. Anyway, I decided to sign up for the training and it was relatively inexpensive, especially for what it offered me.
In order to understand NLP you must have a true understanding of the parts. The N stands for neuro and is short for neurological, which has to with the pathways of the nerves in your brain as well as the way in which you use your senses to hear, see, feel, and so forth. The L stands for linguistic which is essentially language. And programming means to set. Through NLP, you can learn to make changes not only in your language but also changes in your perception. These types of changes in your language can effect you on a very deep emotional level. They can not only change your outlook on the world, but can actually transform your world.
So what is Neuro Linguistic Programming? It is an interpersonal communication model applied in psychotherapy and other contexts of communication and change. It attempts to observe naturally self-taught expertise, and then model the processes and habitual patterns that experts intuitively use on the assumption that those behaviors were responsible for their results. In other words, it creates new thought patterns and processes and replaces the old ones with new and improved responses. And believe it or not you can accomplish all this by merely changing the language that you are using.
For myself, it has not only transformed my life, but my business as well. I am so grateful that I finally came around to taking NLP.
Posted by Rick at 3:06 PM