NLP Basics by Darryl Howrie

NLP simplified, explained and made easy...how your brain really works & how to gear it for optimism, resilience, congruence, self-esteem, abundance and living with intention!

• Connection: how to gain incredible rapport with others
• Learn what truly motivates and drives yourself and others
• Gain powerful influence strategies - easier relationships
• Easily control emotional states & understand the structure of 'depression', anxieties, phobias etc.
• How to develop your own effective strategies for your everyday life
• How to install the excellent beliefs you really want for yourself  
• How to coach others into success as well 

Big claims to make? Sounds almost to good to be true…and yet if you could understand truly how your mind works and find a way to harness the power, would you be willing to learn how?

Think for a moment, we don’t grow up and on our first day of school get given a users manual for our brain, or anyone else’s brain for that matter! And yet such science exists, in a user friendly format. A science that is called magic...NLP!

Yes, the magic of getting over past hurts, the magic of forging a great big compelling future and making it happen, the magic of implementing your knowledge, the magic of getting into rapport with others, working through conflicts, taking another person's point of view on things, and so much more.

We use the term 'magic' in NLP to speak about the very structure and experience of excellence. So when anybody does something in a superb and wonderful way- from learning, decision making, staying motivated, being resilient, operating proactively, managing, making wealth, selling, etc., we know that that experience has structure and that we can learn and replicate that magic.

And that's what NLP is all about.

The Letters

Okay, okay, the letters themselves. NLP literally stands for a mouth-full of a phrase: Neuro-Linguistic Programming. This refers to the fact that we have a mind-body system, that we can program very much the way we can program software for a computer. This mind-body system or our neuro-linguistics is made up of our neurology (our nervous systems that enables us to live, breathe, think, and function) and our linguistics (the symbol systems that run the neurology).

Put the mind and body together and we have a marvelous, mysterious and even magical human bio-computer, and the best news - it's programmable. Sure, it's hard-wired with a few basic dispositions, but for the most part, "as we think (symbolize, give meaning to things), so we are." And if life isn't perfect then begins the adventure.

An adventure of meaning; meaning that the strategy is usually at fault. There is a wild program in your mind-body computer if you will. If you want to easily make friends, stay optimistic, learn, stay healthy, looking at the world through the eyes of opportunities, etc., then you just need a strategy. You work perfectly well (using an in correct strategy is no crime we simply stop it and install an new strategy). NLP, as a model of human functioning, agrees with this slightly radical attitude that, people are not broken they work well (and are using an incorrect strategy) Assuming that people work perfectly well, that they have all the resources that they need, and that the only problem isn't them, but with their programming we are now free to install a different program or solution. Hence someone with depression or anxiety is interpreted as having a great skill in something like perseverance, consistency, staying true or even focused over long periods. Sounds crazy...hey that's how they got into a mess and when fighting fire with fire, a coach with this attitude and interpretation will work magic, helping that client doubt their difficulty and believe in the promise of a new strategy.

The Sources

NLP is a branch of the Cognitive Sciences and Cognitive Behavioral Psychology. It grew out of General Semantics (Korzybski), Transformational Grammar (Noam Chomsky), Anthropology and Cybernetics (Bateson), Re-framing (Watzalawick, et al.), Family Systems (Virginia Satir), Gestalt Therapy (Perls), Medical hypnosis (Milton Erickson), and several related studies. So it incorporates many of the discoveries made by other respected fields to explain how and why people do what they do.

The Founders

To understand the story of how NLP came to be, you have to understand the times of the early 1970s in America and specifically in California. In a time of social upheaval, Vietnam War protests, drugs and rock-n-roll, a young college student happened to work with Fritz Perls and then Virginia Satir and found that he could mimic their high-level therapy skills to a degree that he got similar results in therapy as the original magician/therapist. Richard met with a young college professor of linguistics to help him determine the structure of his personal excellence and suddenly they both were replicating the therapeutic excellence.

So Richard Bandler and John Grinder teamed up to see if they could figure out (or model) the magic of these therapeutic wizards. There on the campus of the University of California at Santa Cruz, Bandler used what he knew about patterns in mathematics and computers and Grinder used what he knew about patterns in linguistics to create a model about the Perls and Satir model - a meta-model ('meta' is Greek for 'above, beyond, and about'). After enjoying immediate and powerful results from this initial modeling, Richard and John set out to model the hypnotic skills of Milton Erickson. It so happened that he and Dilts and others of the original group were taking classes from Gregory Bateson at the University who not only introduced them to Erickson, but to other influential people.

Within two years, they produced the original NLP books: The Structure of Magic, Volumes I and II; The Patterns of the Hypnotic Language of Milton Erickson, Vol. I & II. And that's how it began. They built a communication model about human "thinking" and "processing" and used that model of how we see images, hear sounds, reproduces smells and tastes and touches in our mind to track and model the structure of subjective experiences.

Summary

By Darryl Howrie NLP Master Trainer, Author & Coach 

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Author: For over 10 years Darryl has presented, trained and coached communicational skills. He is a NLP Master trainer in Perth, Australia and the Managing Director of NLP Training & Coaching. He has appeared on national TV and radio and is a sought after trainer for persuasion and influence strategies.

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