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Neuro-Linguistic Programming
A Key Element to Personal Freedom
by Stephan Cocks
Since the beginning of time, people have struggled to find passion, happiness, security and meaning in their lives, along with freedom from stress and worry. In recent times this has extended to a shift in consciousness whereby people are learning and utilizing skills to not only liberate their own ability to find peace and freedom for themselves, but to extend that ability to others. Many such modalities and disciplines of conscious awareness have arisen in the recent past to accomplish this. One very powerful means of empowering self and others toward unlimited potential and thus a new level of personal, physical, financial and mental freedom is the art and science of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).
NLP is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for life coaches and therapists, as it offers the opportunity for rapid and lasting changes in the way we think, feel, see, hear and, in short, experience our reality. It is said in NLP that it is easier and more effective to alter the way we perceive and react to our environment than it is to change the various elements of our environment. NLP offers a full set of “presuppositions” or elements of human experience, held to be true, that enable us to examine our behaviors, blocks to success and limiting beliefs in an effort to enhance the choices available for us to act and react in new, more empowering ways. These presuppositions examine and deal with various parts of the human experience to allow us to liberate our thought processes and update the “software” of the most powerful tool ever encountered by mankind: the human brain.
NLP offers a “users’ manual” for the brain, allowing us to reprogram old, outdated beliefs and limiting behaviors and update our “mental software” with new, empowering beliefs and patterns of behaviors all designed to lead to increased freedom in the way we work, play, and interact with our fellow human beings. This allows us to design a future full of hope and possibilities. One presupposition of NLP is “the person or system with the most flexibility will control the system.” This idea is not intended to suggest that one person with more skill at running his brain may control another; however it implies that by increasing your own mental “flexibility” you may be able to elevate yourself to new and dramatically increased levels of achievement. At the very heart of Neuro-Linguistic Programming lies a variety of techniques utilized by athletes, therapists, life coaches, authors, musicians, actors, business executives and anyone who desires to expand their awareness and unlock their potential to function and perform at higher levels than ever imagined.
In our Global NLP trainings, we find men and women of all ages and from virtually every walk of life and every continent on the globe all with a burning desire to learn the tools leading to expanded thought and increased freedom in every aspect of their lives. We have had countless students make dramatic and lasting improvements in personal relationships, work performance and creativity. One powerful key technique of NLP is the ability to go “meta,” by learning the art of multiple perspectives in examining our behaviors, limiting decisions, or blocks which can lead to lifelong self-sabotage. By having the ability to examine these situations from new perspectives and insights, powerful options and behaviors seem to just magically emerge that previously were completely out of our awareness.
Along with the art of multiple perspectives, NLP utilizes an arsenal of techniques such as analyzing all the elements of human communication via the words we use, non verbal communication, voice tone and tempo and myriad unconscious elements of everyday communication that allow us to evaluate the deeper meaning of all communication. It is also a presupposition of NLP that the “meaning of your communication is the response you get.” This implies that there is no miscommunication, just the failure to communicate clearly and meaningfully. NLP trainings examine the patterns of communication by teaching students to use advanced methods and patterns to effectively communicate at both the conscious and unconscious levels which will help develop deep levels of rapport with friends, clients and co-workers. Incorporating these tools with such techniques such as increasing our sensory awareness, developing and utilizing trance work through hypnosis and having a general acceptance of the need to improve our behaviors and ability to communicate make Neuro-Linguistic Programming a cutting edge tool to find liberation of mind and increased freedom in all aspects of our lives.
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