NLP Basics by Darryl Howrie

Neuro-Linguistic Programming simplified, explained and made easy...how your brain really works and 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 too 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 'user's 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!

We now know how to change beliefs, get over hurt, forge a massive and compelling future, and get congruent about the things you are really going for in life.

What is a Neuro-Linguistic Program?

NLP comes from mixed fields like linguistics and computer programming hence the idea that we can program our neurology for excellence, success etc

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 incorrect strategy is no crime we simply stop it and install a 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 problem isn't them, but with their programming, we are now free to install a different program or solution.

Hence someone coping with pain of loss, 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 in the beginning! 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.

NLP has it's roots in CBT and Cognitive Linguistics, General Semantics, Anthropology, Psychotherapy in particular, Hypnosis. If we stay this side of the twenty first century we begin most likely with Alfred Korzybski, probably because he coined the terms 'neuro-linguistic', 'neuro-semantic' and 'design engineering' (hence Bandler's new Design Human Engineering). Grinder's influences via Transformational Grammar (Noam Chomsky), and Cybernetics via his personal mentor Gregory Bateson.

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