Applying Neuro Linguistic Programming to Life Situations

There are very many people who are attracted to Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP, and they each have their own reasons for their interest. Whether it concerns phobias, career areas, sports related performance, or psychological performance related issues, NLP can be used to make positive changes in all of these areas, and more. Whatever your goals, there are NLP techniques that can help you to achieve them. So this article will continue to discuss a few excellent reasons why using, or learning, NLP can be of immense value to you.

Neuro linguistic programming teaches an important concept called congruency. Congruent means to be consistent, and in NLP this attribute means to have that quality in your life as determined by your goals. You need to avoid being ambiguous about your goals; everything about you must spell out what it is you want to do. A simple example of not being congruent is when your body language doesn't match what you are saying. One thing that will help you out with this is to know exactly what you value and what you want. But in practice, perhaps and probably no one is 100% congruent, 100% of the time. The important take-away is to always try to learn more about yourself, and this will help you do that.

Your view of life, people, and the world can completely change once you become more aware of these principles. There are definite patterns that can be seen in other people, and if you learn about them you'll be able to communicate with them much better and more effectively.

You can learn to recognize what people may be thinking "like" depending on their eyes and expressions on their face. Generally speaking, when someone is trying to remember something, they will tend to look to the right and up as their trying to remember. That is just one example, and of course others exist. There is much more to recognizing the patterns, and other personal attributes are involved, too.

Another concept and technique with Neuro Linguistic Programming is changing the influential pictures in your mind so they can help you achieve more of what you want in your life. One area this can help in, out of very many, is in the case of your job requiring you to give talks, yet you really are nervous to get up in front of others and speak. What usually happens? Well, most if not everyone will see themselves being nervous while speaking. The thing you have to do is change the picture to one in which you're self-assured and comfortable. Place the "new" confident image as a small circle inside the old image that is the way you always were, until now. Now... let the new one expand until it totally fills the old image and replaces it. This takes practice, and that is the only way it will work, but you can make extraordinary changes if you do it.

Neuro Linguistic Programming can be applied to very many life situations, and maybe that is one reason why people use it so much. If you took a good survey of what is possible with NLP, then you'll see for yourself the breadth and scope of the possibilities. Be brave, and be willing to challenge the beliefs that quite often only serve to limit what you can do in life.