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Sunday, June 14, 2009

What is NLP?? let's know

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a name that encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming. The neurological system regulates how our bodies function, language determines how we interface and communicate with other people and our programming determines the kinds of models of the world we create. Neuro-Linguistic Programming describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay effects our body and behavior (programming).
‎NLP evolved in the early seventies by the work of 2 people: John Grinder, then as Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Richard Bandler, a student of psychology at the University. NLP is based on careful observations of highly effectively people. Both founders studied the three top psychotherapists of this century in great depth. They are: Milton Erickson, known as the Father of Modern Hypnotherapy, Virginia Satir, known as the Mother of Family System Therapy, and Fritz Perls, known as the Father of Gestalt Therapy.
John and Richard identified a great many of the underlying patterns of behavior and communication that made these great therapists so effective in assisting people in changing their lives for the better. They used what they found to create a set of models of human skills and capabilities that is known to us as "Neuro-Linguistic Programming." Essentially, NLP models are based on the modeling of human excellence; another person's behavior can be duplicated by studying what that person does inside his mind to produce results. NLP is a field that is continually innovating and developing until today.
NLP is a pragmatic school of thought - an 'epistemology' - that addresses the many levels involved in being human. NLP is a multi-dimensional process that involves the development of behavioral competence and flexibility, but also involves strategic thinking and an understanding of the mental and cognitive processes behind behavior. NLP provides tools and skills for the development of states of individual excellence, but it also establishes a system of empowering beliefs and presuppositions about what human beings are, what communication is and what the process of change is all about. At another level, NLP is about self-discovery, exploring identity and mission. It also provides a framework for understanding and relating to the 'spiritual' part of human experience that reaches beyond us as individuals to our family, community and global systems. NLP is not only about competence and excellence, it is about wisdom and vision.

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