What is NLP?
NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming was developed back in the 1970’s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP can be descrbed as a set of tools that aid communication. In human interaction the ability to communicate accurately is of foremost importance. If we can communicate accurately, we can influence people into our way of thinking and NLP can be extremely effective in the area of business and sales. Bandler and Grinder’s interest was, however, in the area of therapy and in the ability to influence a person to think differently. In order to develop NLP they studied eminent people in the field of therapy and discovered that although they all worked in completely different ways, they all fundamentally communicated in the same way.
NLP is Hypnosis
One of the people they studied was Dr Milton Erickson who was an eminent hypnotherapist. As a result, Bandler and Grinder experimented in depth with formal hypnosis. They concluded that they could achieve all that they wanted without using formal hypnosis. Bandler and Grinder do state, however, that NLP is Hypnosis it is just an informal form utilising the natural trance state that we each enter 4 – 8 times an hour.
Bandler and Grinder developed many procedures and mental exercises that can be use to train ourselves and others to think in more positive ways. Using the principles of communication that were discovered by Bandler and Grinder, many others have developed mental exercises that can be used to enhance our lives and thinking.
NLP tends to be used more in the field of Life Coaching but it is equally of value in Hypnotherapy. NLP has an advantage over formal Hypnosis in that many of the exercises can be taught over the telephone. With his LIfe Coaching clients Stephen Rigby uses only NLP but his Hypnotherapy clients can benefit from both formal and informal Hypnosis to help you change old patterns of thinking that are holding them back.
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