NLP is All About You
We’re in the middle of an NLP Practitioner certification training and everyone is doing great - because theyget that NLP is no more powerful than a piece of string, unless they bring themselves to it.
Neuro linguistic programming is about discovering subjective experience and asking ourselves if this experience is useful or functional, and if not, how do we change it so it is.
For example, one participant came to the training with a phobia - a VERY strong phobia of caves and small places. their subjective experience, or their perception of small places was extremely negative. It was affecting their life, their holidays and their levels of happiness, because the fear was always there.
Using an NLP technique called Logical Levels, the phobia was completely gone in around ten minutes. Afterwards they couldn’t remember why they were on the stage and what all the fuss was about.
So what was reality? The phobia or not the phobia? SUbjective experience was changed, and so they changed how they experience the world.
Now they experience their world differently, they’ll notice different things, instead of taking up room in their thoughts and feelings with the anxiety they are free to use that space for more functional things, whatever they may be for them.
How we experience the world is only one version of “reality”. There are endless versions of “reality”. This person had one version and now has another. Which is accurate?
In NLP, we ask “who drives the bus”. Meaning, who is in charge of your brain, and therefore your choices? You are. By using NLP, especially its attitude of responsibility, we can experience any version of “reality” we choose. It would make sense then to program a version of our reality that is highly useful, functional, and whilst we’re at it, fun!
I started this blog with saying NLP is nothing without the operator. NLP can’t change your world. You can change your world by using the techniques.
So far this training we’ve - helped someone know trust, let go of an anxiety about authority, dumped chocolate (!), go excited about study, let go of concerns about a past negative event, laughed uproarously at an old phobia and changed the colour of a car for fun. (We changed it back.) All of this is possible not because of NLP but because of what we do with it.
If you’re a student of NLP and wondering if it will work, change the question to “How do I work it” and see what happens.
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