What is NLP

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming and encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and patterning.

We are in contact with the external world through our five senses: sight, hearing, feelings, smell and taste. Our neurology takes external stimuli and represents them to us with a matching set of "internal representations." These form our subjective experience. Our internal world is made up of the pictures we see in our "mind's eye". It is the conversations, dialogues or arguments we have with ourselves in our thinking. It is our feelings and emotions over which we used to think we had no control.

The important point to realise is that our experience is created by combinations of these internal representations which form repeating patterns or "programmes." These patterns (or habits) run over and over again unless they are interrupted or redirected. It is like a record playing the same song unless it is rerecorded.

As a social species, we share a genetic trait common with many other social mammals: that is the drive to get along with other people. Put several strangers in a room together and pretty soon they’ll start talking to one another. We learn the skills of getting along with others right from birth and one of the ways we do it is by doing the same things they do. I’m sure everyone will have had the experience of hearing small children watching an adult doing a task and saying “me help, me help” and trying to do it the same way the adult does. In NLP terminology this is called modelling.

Modelling is recognising another persons behaviours, body language and communication patterns, trying them on oneself and becoming so proficient that the process becomes unconscious.

Modelling is a foundation stone of NLP and will help you achieve personal excellence. By using your mind and body in the same way as a peak performer you can immediately increase the quality of your actions and results.