What is NLP?

This is an interesting question, as there is no one definition that neatly describes it. NLP was originated by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in the mid 1970’s. They set about creating a new and exciting way of understanding self and others and did this by modelling communication experts of the time like Dr Milton Erikson, Virginia Satir and Fritz Perls.NLP is a model of communication about human processing that empowers you to ’RUN YOUR OWN BRAIN’, Using the languages of the mind (your internal cinema/Movie memory of sights, sounds, and sensations) along with language, you think and frame things using these see, hear, and feel dimensions. As you represent data to yourself on the inner screen on consciousness, that internal movie signals your body to go into what we refer to as a state

• a mind-body or neuro linguistic state (Our Map)
• and that governs the quality of your life experiences.

Developed by a linguistic and computer student about human excellence and Genius,
NLP provides you with insights and specific step-by-step techniques

• for running your own brain
• managing your own states
• communicating more effectively and elegantly with yourself and others
• and replicating human excellence. - Michael Hall Ph.D. (Neuro Semantics)

NLP is a collection of skills for you to learn, techniques for you to work with, processes you will grow with to enhance your expertise in communicating more effectively in all areas of your life. Are you ready now to utilize all the powerful patterns and process that NLP and Neurosemantics have for you to live the life you want as you discover the self dynamics of your unique self.

Lorna has been using the NLP processes since 1989, when she began working with John Kehoe from Mindpowers, which then led her to researching more about how the human brain works in conjunction with behaviour, learning strategies anf motivation ..... read more about her experiences here.
Over many years of training with many different trainers internationally Lorna has gained an incredible knowledge of how NLP, and NLP related techniques can best be applied, to the corporate sector, small business and personally in your own life with the ones you are closest to. Lorna's trainings are filled with incredible knowledge and experiences, and she will share with you many different perspectives of each skill, so that you can decide which way will best support you, instead of only learning one way and finding that it has not worked for you. You will also experience modalities from NeuroSemantics, whole brain thinking, mind mapping, Meta Time Lines, Hypnotherapy, and more. You will then be welcome take these different skils away with you and apply easily in your everyday life, her manuals and presentations are delivered simply and in a way that is easily understood even without any prior NLP knowledge. The manuals will provide you with a life time reference point of how to apply successfully personally and in your career.

NLP is a collection of skills derived from studies of individuals generally acknowledged to be “Super Successes”.
These successful people had naturally created patterns of excellence in their lives and repeated them with consistent positive results.
These patterns of excellence have been translated into a practical, reliable and learnable techniques called NLP.  

NLP is

• The study of Human subjective experiences
• About People and for people
• About How the Human brain works
• How people Think, Learn, Motivate themselves, and change.
• A Model of competent, charismatic communication.
• A ‘How-to’ process to guide personal change.

NLP offers impressive potential for you making changes and improving your communications. More compelling is the promise and example it allows for increasing options………. and for enlarging your choices of behaviour…….

NEURO -
Neurology is the functioning of your nervous system as it interacts within your body and physiology of your central, peripheral and autonomic systems. Humans process all experiences via five main senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, smell, taste). This is channelled through the nervous system, more specifically, the mind

LINGUISTIC -
How you use language and other non verbal communication, and how it affects you, refers to the symbolic mapping that you create of the territory. It involves the higher cortical functions in the brain which enables you to use symbols to create language, and to map things out linguistically. This enables you to encode, order and give meaning to your sensory representations using much more abstract categories.

Language — words, sentences, syntax, grammar, etc., Mathematics, Music, Non-propositional language : poetry, stories, narrative, etc.
The Languages of the mind, how the mind thinks and encodes information, through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. This is also described as being the internal cinema or movie of the mind.
Includes: The sensory representation system

V - Pictures, Scenes, Images
A - Sounds, noises and Music.
K - Feelings, sensations, touches

PROGRAMMING -
How you use the programs that you run inside your head to communicate with yourself and others to achieve your goals
refers to the actual processes or patterns that you use to order and sequence your mapping. Such “programming” generates your strategies for functioning, and results in your skills, abilities, habits, etc. You develop “programs” for thinking, creating, communicating, parenting, working, relating, etc. The ability to discover and utilize the programs that you run (your communication to yourself & others) in your neurological systems to achieve your specific and desired outcomes.

You experience life in specific mental and emotional states. Our - State of Mind. State of Body. State of Emotion. These are all so inter-related that we cannot separate them. When we do, we only do linguistically, and as a description. As it is an art and a science, there are many ways it can be interpreted. So, here are numerous definitions that when put together create a complimentary overview of NLP.

NLP Defined:

• How you use the language of the mind
  for you to consistently achieve your specific and desired outcomes
• The study of excellence –
  absorbing how excellent people and organisations achieve brilliant results and then modelling that to replicate your excellence
• An attitude and a methodology,
  which leave behind a trail of techniques (Richard Bandler)
• An accelerated learning strategy for the detection and utilisation of your patterns in the world (John Grinder)
• An opportunity for you to choose the life you want to live.
  By choosing your thoughts, feelings, words and actions at any given moment in time
• A set of tools and methodologies to enable your self empowerment

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