Change Your Life In Seven Days – Will NLP Work For You?
NLP stands for Neuro Linguistic Programming. It characterizes the management of thoughts and feeling provoked through language, both spoken and body language. Self help practitioners such as Paul McKenna, author of Change Your Life in Seven Days, use NLP because of it’s powerful influence on negative habits.
Try this for an experiment. With a friend close by, text them this message.
Scratch off lottery tickets were Your favorite. Who Knows what that is now.
Now make sure you capitalize the words scratch, your and knows. They have to stand out just a little bit. What you’ve done is embedded the command, scratch your nose, to your friend. Knows and nose are phonetically ambiguous, so don’t worry about that. Did your friend scratch their nose?
How people respond to communication is what NLP is all about. NLP practitioners use observations to determine which communications prompt the desired outcome and which ones don’t. New communication patterns are then developed for the patient. Programs such as stop smoking and losing weight utilize principles of NLP to create new responses to external influences.
When you communicate to other people, you communicate using your body, eyes, tone of voice, pace of speech and the speed of your breath. Many times not all of these are congruent and we end up sending multiple messages. Sometimes these messages actually conflict with what our verbal intent. What if you could get all these parts of your body and mind in sync and communicate what you really mean?
Like the desperate sales person trying to sell the client but the client has clued in on the anxiety and becomes guarded. The frustrated husband trying desperately not to lose his temper, but the wife reads the tenseness in his hands and begins to pace the house nervously. What about the insecure student who’s teacher reads his shyness as insubordination and manages to alienate him further from learning?
With miscommunication everyone loses. People picked up poor communication patterns through unsuccessful interactions with friends and family. They are destructive and at best unproductive.
NLP has to do with communication intent. It’s a set of descriptions of what works and what doesn’t. Now every individual has a different set that works for them, so there is no one set that everyone can refer to. But, with NLP, you can heighten you awareness of yourself and communication habits by reading the shifts in behavior in others. How others respond provide the feedback of the way you communicate. Can you imagine, one, figuring out how to the brain responds to language tactics and then, two, skillfully using language (like Cesar Millan with dogs) to work with clients, your parents, your partner and the kids?
Be the person you want to be because the longest journey begins right where you stand. Roxanne has the Easy NLP and Hypnosis Workbook. Start using it today.
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