“NLP is the modelling of excellence”
Dr John Grindler
RUTH CULVER
Happiness Coach &
Clinical Hypnotherapist
What is NLP?
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (or NLP) is often described as “an owner’s manual for the brain”. By knowing how our brains work we can develop the parts that are most useful to us and replace some of our more unhelpful patterns.
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NLP allows us to understand how we edit and filter our reactions to what we experience. However, although grounded in theory and research, NLP is about action.
In practice we use it to identify patterns of thought and behaviour and then create new ones based on what we want, and thus dramatically improve the quality and effectiveness of our lives.
NLP doesn’t deal with the past - it looks at how you want things to be in the future.
•Neuro - all behaviour stems from neurological responses to what we see & hear
•Linguistic - the language we use to order our own thoughts and communicate with others
•Programming - sequences of repeated behaviour that we habitually use to produce results
“NLP is
the study
of the structure of subjectivity”
Richard Bandler
A brief history of NLP
NLP started in the early 1970s from the collaboration of Dr John Grindler, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, and Richard Bandler, a computer scientist and Gestalt therapist.
Their research involved analysing linguistic patterns and neurological changes to analyse how people learn, then ‘modelling’ (ie analysing in order to replicate) successes to create desired change. Since its originators, NLP has has been developed in a variety of directions and helped millions of people across the globe.
