NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

How it is helpful

practicing nlp techniques will increase your resilience and your ability to master change just as working out in a gym will build your physical strength flexibility and endurance in business nlp can improve your results by helping you improve your leadership sales management and relationship skills in your personal life.

it can help you connect to your purpose overcome blocks and help you navigate your own heroes or heroine’s journey what do. the words neuro-linguistic programming mean neuro means relating to the nervous system the information we take in through our senses influences neurological function if we improve the accuracy with which take in information i.e. we listen better and are more observant so we are more open to our own and other people’s experience. this means our brains have better information to help make decisions we also increase our ability to communicate effectively both consciously and unconsciously linguistic is about language as we understand and are more aware of language the words themselves as well their structure and the way they’re spoken speed voice tone rhythm so we get better information for making decisions and communicating consciously and unconsciously programming here refers to habits we develop habits
Some useful some less nlp teaches us how we can develop and encourage useful habits and reduce less useful habits

The list of the top 10 most useful nlp techniques:

a) state interrupt you are a human so am I we interact with other humans which invariably means there will be drama emotions and sometimes upsets the state interrupt pattern gives us a powerful tool to stop runaway states break up conflict to escalate tension perfect tool for working with yourself as a parent people-helper or leader

b) spinning feelings this is a super cool pattern and doesn’t require a PhD in nlp to use effectively for a long time people have talked about their feelings in visceral sense i feel dread in the pit of my stomach I’m so excited i could wet myself or I’m so in love i feel like floating on cloud nine the spinning feelings pattern recognizes that feelings don’t just stop and go dormant they must move so when someone says they are frustrated angry overjoyed things that sound like an event what is actually happening is the person often outside their awareness is doing the activity of generating frustration angry joy which is then felt in the body the more they repeat it the better their body becomes at creating and maintaining the feeling with the spinning feelings pattern we want to know where that feeling starts how it moves where goes by changing the direction of the spinning pattern you can radically alter how the feeling changes or if you want to make it stronger with this one wonder pattern you can tackle a wide range of stuck problems and amplify good feelings you ever have to feel permanently crap again and don’t have to wait till flow arrives to get into a powerful resourceful state

c) collapsing anchors there are actually several patterns that fall under the category of anchoring and all are worth learning what is anchoring the process of learning it’s how two things get linked together in our neurology with it you can break problematic patterns or trigger off a resourceful state exactly when you need it collapsing an anchor is where you bring together two states typically a state response that person finds limiting e.g. fear when around their boss and introduce a powerful resource state e.g. belly-busting laughter at the exact moment they begin to experience the problem emotion by having the body experience two at the same time it forced the person’s neurology to reorganize itself to a neutral or positive state so in this case the laughter washes over the fear and the person just laughs at their old self being scared of the boss if done right it works remarkably well and of course you can add additional states to build on the new feelings anytime you like

d) sub-modality change pattern few patterns give you as much bang for your buck as the sub-modality change pattern this wonder pattern can be used to blow things up in your mind or shrink away your fears it’s a Swiss army knife pattern when you understand how it works the sub-modality pattern is used in countless other patterns because it’s so darn good and key to reorganizing how a person experiences their reality applications include changing beliefs installing confidence breaking apart negative self-image reducing stress getting over loss building motivation etc. now wouldn’t that be nice pattern to pull in closer to your toolbox

e) threshold pattern as much people would like to think they got their stuff together but they run their emotions and free choice completely more and people realize that this isn’t so our mind body gets caught on a loop and sometimes the same pattern of behaviour thought emotion or action occurs over and over again and it seems to be beyond our control the threshold pattern also known as the compulsion blowout is the your tool of choice for getting the person’s mind body utterly fed up with doing the same old thing that’s wearing them out slowly or that isn’t serving them we want to break the problematic pattern so it can never be put back together that way again and the threshold pattern shows you how

f) timelines over the years has grown into a whole class of sub patterns that are very effective in helping us create change and enhance a person’s life timelines give you a powerful way to let go of emotional pain without the drama transform old stories and install new ways of feeling a bright future long after the change’s work has ended by having a person access their felt sense of time and hallucinating a timeline we can help them interact with memories of events access old resources seed changes back in their past and generalize those changes all the ways through to the present and beyond for transformative change as Richard bandler so eloquently put it it’s never too late to have a happy childhood many people think of timelines as an overt visual change tool but you can actually use them covertly and conversationally which makes them incredibly powerful tool for change persuasion and helping others

g) mind reading pattern , this little gem comes from the meta model and is actually one of 12 patterns that are part of that model the mind reading pattern is one of those patterns that can transform a situation a huge difference between those who can solve problems quickly and those who don’t was often down to the quality of their thinking if you frame the problem incorrectly or you don’t even realize you’ve accepted someone else’s frame on an issue that is wrong you are going try to come up with solutions for a problem that doesn’t exist or even if implemented won’t fix the real problem the mind reading pattern asks a simple but powerful question how do you know or a variation of it this question causes the person to recover how they know something to be true it informs you about what is on a person’s map that map could be your own thinking a friends your colleagues your doctors etc. by focusing on this one linguistic pattern you begin to join them in their model of the world and can use this one pattern as a powerful technique for change and transformation best of all you can use it anywhere and it has multiple other uses in persuasion and trance

h) the swish, wouldn’t it be nice to direct your mind to go where you want it to on cue when a text pops in instead of checking out your phone imagine if your brain took that as a trigger to refocus on what you’re working on or when you wake up in the morning instead of hitting the snooze button you find yourself jumping out of bed ready to hit gym the swish pattern makes it possible allows us to switch our brain do this positive thing instead of that unhelpful thing without conscious intervention it’s so good you’ll find this mega pattern used in many other nlp processes

i) reframing pattern this pattern is so good Richard and john wrote a whole book on it it’s so useful in everyday use that it earned my number two spot reframing is the process of changing frame of reference someone uses to order to change the meaning framing can happen at a both verbal and non-verbal level we can reframe the content or context for near-infinite combinations so magical are frames that to the untrained eye and ear they are invisible they are simply felt they shape and control the thoughts of billions every day and the fascinating thing is we are all framing things all the time a great communicator uses framing to create new meanings and realities and to break apart limiting ones need to kick the legs off an unhelpful idea why not defame it worried about how to approach a pay rise with your boss no problem pre-frame it to him as a performance reward session boss accepts you’ve earned it but rejects the rise on grounds of limited budgets out-frame his frame and show how it’s possible with counter-framing examples there are so many useful roles reframing conservats one every student should master and finally we arrive at the number one spot

j) self-anchoring there are several that could have made the top spot including the act as if pattern change personal history or new behavior generator etc. each would be good contenders that can have major generative change on your life however intentional self-anchoring clinched the top spot because its results are so immediate it takes very little effort to set up and your ability to anchor yourself or trigger an anchor as always available why do we say intentional because you are already anchoring yourself all the time if remember to turn off the light at night when you walk out of a room you have created an anchor for yourself when you self-anchor you. create a reminder in your nervous system that says when I do this do that it allows you to evoke a desired resource state on cue to teach your brain to chunk this signal with that response.

for example it’s like saying brain when I karate chop my right hand into my left palm then call up a strong state of confidence and let that emotion flood through my body repeat the self-anchoring process a few times and it’s ready to roll for you further when you are good at doing this for yourself it’s easy to anchor others steal other people’s anchors and become a person of influence even with people you’ve just met self-anchoring gives you the chance to quickly train and retrain your mind body to start doing more of the states you want to access more of the resources you want.