Mastery of Self
through
Neuro Linguistic Program(NLP)
Greetings! Welcome to the 'Mastery of Self' online experience, designed to empower us to have control over our spiritual, mental, emotional, physical, relational, financial, ecological and temporal aspects of our lives, which we believe makes up our total self. The neurological system, the consciousness, thoughts, actions, feelings and energy that it produces, which we call the 'mind' connects all these aspects of life, affect each aspect and helps us make choices and act
During the process, we will travel together into the extraordinary world of Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP and other life sciences to explore how we can influence our mind to help us make choices and take appropriate action. NLP is the science of how to most effectively communicate with our brain and nervous system to produce various behavioural results.
NLP was created by Dr. Richard Bandler and Dr. John Grinder, who used the. combined expertise in therapy, computer modelling and linguistics to amass data from the world, most effective therapists, communicators, and educators. 'they looked for the overlapping patterns, seeking to create an empirical discipline that would provide structured guidance for those involved in making interventions in human behaviour for bringing about swift, verifiable, lasting change.
Among the presuppositions of NLP is that success leaves clues if anyone in the world can produce a specific result because of their NLP and non-NLP practice, (love, meditation, exercises, nutrition, learning etc.), then by modelling that person's actions, beliefs and mental syntax, we should be able to approximate their results.
Another presupposition- is that change can occur in an instant when the subconscious is invoked. It is an age-old observation in psychology that in any conflict between imagination and logic, imagination invariably wins. There are, and always have been human forces stronger than logic. The reason that change has traditionally been thought to be a long and arduous process is because we have worked primarily with the conscious mind through spoken language. NLP tries to bypass this, and seeks to supply a software for the subconscious, exercises that seem like play to the conscious mind, but which nevertheless produce significant subconscious changes. When we change at the subconscious level, it is like replacing reflexes and the new behaviours seem as natural and as automatic as the old ones did.
Most therapies see people as broken in the areas where they do not function optimally. NLP sees people as working perfectly, though at times to produce suboptimal results. If we were a successful dud at anything for thirty years, then our brain is very good at producing that result! Something in us is very good at being successfully tenacious even though the outcome is unpopular with us. If we can find out how our brain produces that result and sticks to it, then we can substitute a better result and guarantee success employing the strategies our brain has already been using.
NLP is not positive thinking, it does not demand conscious puffery, nor does it require us to continually relive past disempowering moments as a lot of therapy does. It borrows from both traditions, of course, and students of each will recognise terminology and approaches, albeit in a reorganised, amended and more dynamic form.
We will explore the applicability of NLP; the latest methods and techniques in the areas of leadership, teambuilding, communication, relationship building, presentation skills, time management, stress management, over-coming psychological obstacles, self-motivation and turning fear into power.
See you in the next blog. Till then Be safe.