NLP
in the early evening on Thursday, the 14th of August 2003 by Capt Jake Fortune
Neuro Linguistic Programming. Sounds eeeevil doesn’t it. Something about it brings to mind old men in lab coats standing around someone strapped in a chair. They’re all chanting something over and over until the subject can’t take it anymore and agrees to kill the queen or whoever.
I walked around at work today and asked people what they thought about when I said the words “Neuro Linguistic Programming.” Overwhelmingly negative. So what is NLP?
NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming) is a constantly evolving set of models, presuppositions, patterns, techniques, and observation-based theories resulting from the study of the structure of subjective experience, behavior and communication. Beyond understanding, NLP seeks to enable remedial and generative change quickly and ecologically.
Hmmm.. That doesn’t help at all I’d say. Besides make you zone. Essentially NLP is a modified form of light hypnosis from what I can gather. Here are some precepts:
No one is wrong or broken. People work perfectly to accomplish what they are currently accomplishing.
People already have all the resources they need.
Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
Every behavior is useful in some context.
The meaning of a communication is the response you get.
If you aren’t getting the response you want, do *something* different.
There is no such thing as failure. There is only feedback.
In any system, the element with the most flexibility exerts the most influence.
The map is not the territory.
If someone can do something, anyone can learn it.
Much of that is too obvious. Personally, I like the “If you haren’t getting the response you want, do *something* different. If by the second or third time you’ve followed the same pattern of behavior and gotten the same response, what do you think will happen next? The same thing. If thats what you want, great, usually it isn’t. Unless you just like pushing someone’s buttons.
Now, I don’t know much else about NLP, but it seems to be interesting stuff. Its worth learning more about you know… Take a break from porn and blogs, they’re not the only two things on the internet you know…
My friend Mike works at one of the local hospitals and uses NLP to work with dangerous patients. Since he doesn’t have to beat ‘em up all the time, obviously the stuff works.
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August 16th, 2003 at 12:32 am
So you asked people what they thought of NLP and they responded in an overwhelmingly negative fashion. That tells me they don’t know what it is.
What is NLP? It’s the best way to find out, in sometimes painful detail, the answer to the question, “How do you do that?” It’s just a set of tools used to create a model of a person’s experience, including their thoughts. How can that possibly be negative in and of itself? It can’t.
The NLP Presuppositions are beliefs that one must hold in order to do NLP well. In other words, while I’m creating or applying a model, I hold those beliefs. That I hold them in most other contexts as well is an indication of how useful I find them.
Incidentally, NLP is not hypnosis. A Neuro-Linguistic Programmer can make use of hypnosis, but it isn’t required. I happen to like hypnosis and I’m told I’m quite good at it; the guy who taught me much of what I know has had me back at his trainings to help teach others. I find it useful. and enjoyable.
Your remark that much of [the presuppositions] is too obvious is right on the mark. I think it was Huxley who remarked on “the elusive obvious”. One of the most commonly-asked questions about NLP is “if it’s so great, why isn’t everybody using it?” My answer is usually, “For the same reason most people don’t get an annual physical, eat good and healthy food, drink plenty of clean water, work out at least three times a week, and be nice to others. What reason is that?”
BTW, Chad, how did you come to be thinking about NLP, anyway?
February 2nd, 2006 at 5:58 am
I found this blog whilst searching for info on NLP (Neuro linguistic programming) I notice that you have mentioned it on your blog, so i would like to ask a question and perhaps you or your blog readers could answer it.
My question is: Would it be possible to use NLP for helping you to learn a language? and if so, what techniques are best?
Many thanks,
Chris.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
NLP is conceived as a new area in psychotherapy and is even used to cure sleeping disorders and motivational campaigns. What say?
November 26th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
NLP is best for weight loss programs also. NLP in weight loss changes how a person thinks either by directly change or by a change in physiology.