Human beings are constantly communicating. We are all tied into one another at some social context. We are all tuned in to each other in one way or another. We are forever interpreting our experience of what’s there, whether it is through a look, or a word or two or our behaviour. We also interpret what…
Month: August 2006
NLP Gems – [5] Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention.
This core presupposition of NLP seems to provoke many a strong reaction in people on their first introduction to presuppositions of NLP. Of all the NLP presuppositions, this one is perhaps the most frequently misunderstood and many people object to this statement. As used in NLP, “Behind every behaviour there is a positive intention” is…
NLP Gems – [4] People already have all the resources they need in order to effect a change and succeed
Most of us have the same nervous system and set of senses to interpret and respond to what is going around us. All that we experience has a structure, and that structure is derived from our senses: seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory or gustatory). Therefore if every experience is composed…
NLP Gems – [3] The meaning of your communication is the response you get
This is one of the core presuppositions in NLP. It drives you to accept full responsibility for results you receive in your communication. If you get a response you are not expecting, then only you can change the basis of your communication. Remember everyone experiences life through his or her model of the world. Richard…
Imagine for a moment that you could think like a young child again..
Remember the days when everything in the world around you was magical. Remember waking up at daybreak just to explore the world. Remember how you used to explore things and examine new things, run about and play everyday and all day. Now here is a test, can you remember when this “world” ground to a…
NLP Gems – [2] “Understand that everyone has their own model of the world”
The road to rapport** is based on the knowledge and understanding from the previous NLP gem [1]. You now know that everyone occupies and functions in a world of self defined reality; we need to understand that everyone else in the world is making up the same things. The best part is that you now…
NLP Gems – [1] “The Map is Not the Territory”
Your thinking and your physiology are closely tied together. What this means is that it is your thinking that affects how you feel at all times. Conversely your feelings affect how you think at all times. A good communicator with good sensory acuity can fine-tune their communication, by simply tuning into the way other people…
NLP the secret tool of Champions and Superstars.
Many people have asked me to summarise what NLP is, so over the next few weeks here is my take – feel free to correct me or add to this by posting me your comments. In the mid 1970’s a new communication technology began to evolve. It was called NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming -…