2 Simple NLP Definitions

By Lan Thomas


Neuro-linguistic Programming or NLP is the study of how the human mind functions to communicate. Communication here is in the quest to achieving personal goals that are needed as the skill sets in life. The process entails the formation of ideas and articulating them for personal gains.

The reason why people behave and act the way they do is what NLP is all bout. The fear of failure in life makes people thing and act towards a projected better life. No one dreams of a bad life in future. It is in this context that people fear failures but embrace success. NLP helps in balance the two; failure and success while on the other copying what other are doing.

There more one studies NLP, the more they get confused as every concept unfolds other complications in the discipline. Many people agree that the more you study and learn NLP, the more you discover there is still more to be learned. NLP in its wholeness is a methods used to replicate excellence in a human cognition methodology. It is a way of learning from both ones experience and that of other and uses the knowledge to make independent decisions.

People like experimenting before implementing a fact that is internalized in human brains. Once there is some green light of success, the brain communicated to the individual and that is how people act or make decisions. Superstars are many people's role models and we do not look at how they have achieved what they have but only see them for what they are at present. The processes that catapult them to stardom tend to be in background when we want to associate with them.

NLP looks at what has been internalized by the player to become who they are through negating the entire process that the player has gone through to become great in their specialty forgetting the devotion part of the process. NLP works on the assumption that by interviewing a top achiever, you can do better than them through replicating and negating the process of goal achievement.

The NLP processes help in developing persuasion skills in humans, how people work or function and deal with the issues of counseling, coaching and therapies as well. It also helps in creating friendships even if it is for convenience sake. When our mind is programmed, we exude confidence and are able to build short term relationships with people next to us albeit for a short period. Speeches are born of the confidence that NLP helps us built and plays a major role in team participation and individual realization of life long goals.

Giving a public speech, for instance, entails a succession of quick mental programming depending on the mood of the listeners. imaginations are NLP formulations through invoking the state of trance/ through emotions, you are able to understand how people function think and you on the other hand understand them.

The way our minds are programmed enable us influence others according to what we think is right. When these thoughts are translated to verbal communication, we try and get value on the information. NLP shapes our verbal techniques for us to be understood and understand others.




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