Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)
Our beliefs and past experiences make up our internal map of the world, which we use to operate. Some peoples map may seem bizarre, self destructive, cruel, unfathomable but this is the way they see the world. When our internal map becomes altered or damaged in some way, it is more difficult for us to navigate and sometimes we go off track. NLP allows you to change that map, allowing you the freedom of choice to deal with anxiety, phobias, stress, pain and illness.Richard Bandler and John Grinder originally developed NLP to explain how we process the information that comes into us from the world around us. It began in the 1970's as a model of how we communicate to others and ourselves by studying great leaders, communicators and human communication in general. Every external event comes into us through our senses, which is then filtered or altered according to our internal representational systems. It might amaze you to know that words and detail account for only 7% or this, tonality 38% and physiology 55%Over the years NLP has grown by adding practical tools and methods generated by modeling exceptional people. These tools are used in sports, business, training, sales, law, health and education. Conscious and unconscious mind - We can hold several pieces of information at any one time. A telephone number may consist of 10 digits, which we can memorise and then turn into a 'chunk' of information, storing several of these 'chunks' in our short term memory. This is our conscious mind. The unconscious stores everything that is not held in our conscious mind with differing thoughts, feelings, emotions, resources, possibilities and experiences. When we need this information we can often bring it into our conscious mind or sometimes a conscious trigger can bring unconscious thoughts or memories, making us relive past events.Our everyday mask covers our fears, anxieties, phobias, but when our internal and external balance is out of sync it can affect us both physically and mentally.