About NLP: Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Apart from my certification in Hypnotherapy, I am also a Master Level Practitioner of NLP, which is my specialty. NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a modality based on the modeling of excellence.

This model assumes that each of us is 100% successful in creating whatever results in life we have now, and that we are all operating the best we can, according to the beliefs, skills and attitudes we have inherited, learned or adopted.

NLP focuses on “how” we are where we are, rather than “why,” and also assumes that the strategies we use to achieve the results we have currently, that we can restructure and reorganize our strategies and create more desirable results for ourselves – and it’s all based on how we code our thoughts, intentions and desires from our sensory input (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.) and create “maps” of our experiences and project these maps onto our world as our reality. Our inner thoughts, strategies and beliefs about ourselves and the world are triggered by our internal language. If our inner dialogue is not motivating us to believe in our own abilities or possibilities, then we can change these thought patterns to be more supportive of our goals.

As we pay more attention to our language, we can use it more effectively to enjoy our life experiences, achieve our goals, and build better personal and professional relationships by improving our skills of communication. We can also discover more options and solutions to problems more quickly, as well as create and access optimally resourceful states of mind.

A few of the presuppositions of NLP are:

People are not their behaviors. None of our problems, conflicts, beliefs or behaviors are immutable characteristics. We can assume that as long as someone’s thoughts can change, they can also change.

• The law of requisite variety. He/she who is most flexible, who can generate the most options of behavior, who can see more than one perspective, is the one who can control the system, simply by being the most adaptable.
• There is no failure, only feedback. This is a wonderful reframe and reminder for all of us that each experience is a learning opportunity, even and especially those experiences that teach us not only how improve or refine our efforts, but also how to recover from disappointed expectations graciously.
• If you aren't getting the response you want, do *something* different. If we can discover our patterns and strategies for creating results for anything we do (even something as simple as discovering our internal strategy for making a decision to buy something or take action), we can create improve or change our strategies so that we get the result we want. That is, if you aren’t getting what you want right now, what could you do differently that might achieve the most desirable result?

NLP is a set of mental techniques and exercises that I help facilitate and teach you to do yourself. An adjunct to NLP, Timeline Therapy, is also a very powerful tool to help you release old limiting beliefs, learn from past mistakes and turn them into strengths, as well as decrease and eliminate fears, phobias and negative emotions.

Because NLP is based on modeling success, you will find many successful people using NLP trainers and coaches within corporations and the professional sphere, as well as within artistic circles of excellence. NLP is for people who wish to take charge of their results, and believe that they can, right now.