You can’t always control what happens, but you can always control how you deal with it – Richard Bandler (Co-founder of NLP)
Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP, provides practical ways in which thoughts can be changed, the way past events are viewed, and approach life. The thoughts, feelings and emotions are not things that are, or that one has, but things that are done. Their causes can often be very complicated, involving, for instance, comments or beliefs from parents or teachers, or events that have been experienced over a period of time.
What we believe can be extremely powerful. If we believe that we are going to be successful or get better out of an illness by having something that will make us better, we often get better. This ‘placebo effect’ is well-documented.
What this boils down to is that if we believe that we are capable of achieving something, we can make a positive effort towards it. We can also challenge limiting beliefs.
NLP techniques help us take control of these beliefs and influences. Using mind techniques such as visualisation, we can change the way of our thoughts and feel about past events, fears and even phobias. NLP is a very powerful technique based on the power of our own mind. By using these techniques and others developed by NLP practitioners, we can learn to take control of our mind and how we respond. We may not be able to control the world, but we can control how we react to it in a positive way.
Practitioners of NLP presume that all human actions are positive. Therefore, if a plan fails or the unexpected happens, the feedback is important—it simply gives additional information. Modelling, action, and effective communication are very important elements of NLP. The belief is, if an individual can internalise and assimilate how another person is accomplishing a task, the same process can be communicated to others so that they can also be successful.
Given below please find a small note on some of the important techniques which can change our lives :
Circle of Excellence: The Circle of Excellence is a technique using an imaginary circle on the floor as an anchor to install new or additional resources relative to a situation where a different behaviour is sought. It can be used to elicit or create desired states. This technique activates a moment of excellence, i.e. a moment in which you are at the top of a high state.
Changing past history: We can change the personal history by taking the current level of awareness (and life experience) and integrating with those times when there was less of resources and being negatively influenced. In doing so we can re code the meaning which was given to the past events.
Self Appreciation: It is a technique to reprogram the way one thinks about oneself, enhance self-esteem, overcome blocks, and put a stop to incessant negative self-talk. Ideal for students to learn cognitive behavioral techniques.
Managing Phobias: It works on the basis that we have unconsciously programmed our mind to do this behaviour in response to a fear stimulus. Very simply NLP erases the patterns in our unconscious mind so that we simply cannot recreate the phobic response and can also do so very quickly.
Reframing: Reframing is when an undesirable behavior or trait is conferred a positive intention. … Reframing occurs in life regardless of NLP, and is a common means by which meanings get created and lost in various situations, either deliberately or by itself.
This is why two people can look at the same thing and react in very different ways. Information coming in through the sense gets filtered through, among other things, our belief systems