The Incredible Benefits Of Nlp

Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP for short, is a method of communication between a therapist and a client or participant that is focused on what goals a participant has set and what they are actually capable of.

Unlike other forms of therapy that require diagnosis and treatment of a problem, NLP is client centered healing. There are no 'problems', no broken people and nothing that requires fixing. Instead, NLP practitioners use goals created specifically by their clients to decide where therapy should head and how fast or slow it should move. Everything is geared to listening to the client and basing therapy and treatment around each client's specific needs and capabilities.

The techniques of NLP have been in use in various fields for some time, but were only recognized as being part of behavior patterning and effective communication after the field of therapy began to recognize similarities in successful people. The same strategies used in NLP have been used in fields such as business and sales, sports and athletics, and interpersonal influence.

NLP can improve a person's public speaking skills, and is a very successful business management communication skill. Many key people in political and entertainment fields already use rapport, mimicry and anchoring, all practical devices of NLP, when talking to large groups, giving lectures or speeches, or debating and offering persuasive arguments.

NLP used in the field of psychotherapy itself can help with a number of challenges clients face. Because it focuses on recognition of what triggers certain behaviors, NLP techniques are able to change client reliance on unhealthy behaviors such as smoking or over-eating. Clients are always the center of any NLP therapy, and whether they are coming to a practitioner with a phobia of snakes or are wishing to let go of a bad memory such as child abuse or other childhood trauma, NLP offers them success.

Goal-setting helps in most cases; other times NLP means taking a past experience and changing it in the perceptions of the client. Through the identification of triggers and feelings surrounding an event or trauma, behavior or thought, clients learn what sort of 'thinker' they are and what cues they give when they are feeling bad or about to indulge in a negative or unhealthy behavior. With the guidance of an NLP practitioner, clients can learn new ways to visualize a bad experience, making it into something uninteresting to their subconscious, and enabling them to let go of the bad in favour of the good. Through careful study of eye movement, verbal cues and body language, clients learn when they are about to do something not a part of their goals. New behavior is imprinted on the client, encoded into their thinking process. Clients no longer look back with fear, sadness or anger at past experiences, but instead have a new nonchalant attitude towards them.

New behaviors can be introduced using NLP techniques, and clients can feel a great amount of personal success at learning to help themselves. It is because of this goal setting and client centered attitude that NLP really works.