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The Magic of NLP™ and Bandler® Technologies By Barbara Stepp It is an excellent model that allows us to create magic in communication and change. Dr. Richard Bandler says NLP™ is not a philosophy, an ideology or a religion; it’s a set of tools to make things easier. He created his magical work in Neuro Linguistic Programming™ in the ’70s. Since that time, he has created Design Human Engineering™ and Neuro Hypnotic Repatterning™. His contribution to human communication and development is amazing. Dr. Bandler is a practical, psychic Meta physical genius. Richard says, “If it is worth feeling bad about, it’s worth amnesia. And the problem with most people is that they don’t know enough about feeling good.” So his idea is we start with good feelings and learn how to feel even better. He has often asked, “How much pleasure can you stand?” Bandler® Technologies work! They saved my life. Before I tell you more about NLP, let me relate a true life experience of my own. Many years ago I was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I kept it quiet, even Richard didn’t know. While at a particular seminar, Richard noticed that I wasn’t looking very well. Before an audience he demonstrated the power of NLP with me in order to help me look and feel better. He called it Richard’s beauty salon. Amazingly enough, the cancer disappeared never to return. Richard and I were both delighted and delved into what he did, what I did, and the outcome; now he we both use this technology to help others on a regular basis. In fact, we co-created a CD set and booklet entitled Adventure Into Health with the original work he did with me and resources others can use. I am convinced NLP is magical as I have helped many including myself with this amazing methodology. NLP is the study of the structure of subjective experience and is based on the concept that all behavior has structure. The models describe how the human brain functions and are also used to teach, and how language operates on the brain. In simple language, it is about how your brain works. NLP is not a model of repair, but a model of acquisition. It is a model that can be applied and taught experientially. It is about having more choices, modeling excellence, accelerated learning and extensive brain training. Millions of people in education, health care, business and personal development use NLP to change their own behavior and influence others effectively. It is an excellent model that allows us to create magic in communication and change. It is not therapy; it is learning how to run our brains. Here are a few ways we help people using NLP and Bandler Technologies: Stop smoking, Eliminate phobias and fears, Change limiting beliefs, Change any behaviors and develop new ones, Stop compulsive lying, Improve self worth, Acquire effective eating strategies, Weight reduction, Relationships, set goals and achieve them, How to deal with difficult people, Stop depression, Stop panic attacks, Become a competent public speaker/presenter, and much more. NLP is an attitude characterized by the sense of curiosity and adventure and a desire to learn the skills to be able to find out what kinds of communication influences somebody and the kinds of things worth knowing ... to look at the life as a rare and unprecedented opportunity to learn. NLP is a methodology based on the overall operational presupposition that all behavior has a structure; that structure can be modeled, learned, taught, and changed (re-programmed). The way to know what will be useful and effective are the perceptual skills. NLP has evolved as an innovative technology enabling the practitioner to organize information and perceptions in ways that allow them to achieve results that were once inconceivable. Neuro refers to our nervous system (neurology, our brain) through which we experience and process information using our five senses. (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory) Linguistic refers to our language, verbal and non-verbal through which neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. Programming refers to our ability to organize our communication and neurology to achieve specific goals and results.
Some presuppositions of NLP are: • NLP is not a model of repair—it is a model of acquisition—a generative model. • People have all the resources necessary to make any changes they choose. • The meaning of your communication is the response you get. • Behavioral flexibility results in more choices. More choice are better than limited choices. • The positive self-worth of the individual is held constant. There is a distinction between self and behavior. • The mind and body are part of the same cybernetic system. • Individuals communicate on two levels: conscious and unconscious. • The highest quality of information in an interaction is behavioral information. • There are no mistakes in communication—only results. Mistakes are feedback without which flexibility and variability would be impossible. Mistakes are seen as opportunities to learn. The attitude of NLP views each experience as a rare and unprecedented opportunity to learn. • In interactions among people, the individual with the greater flexibility and variability in thinking patterns and behaviors can influence the direction of the outcome of that interaction. In Cybernetics, this is referred to as the “Law of Requisite Variety.” The map is not the territory. Humans create maps/models of the world to make sense of their experience, maintain coherency and guide their behavior. We do not operate directly on our world, but rather through our sensory representations of the world. NLP is a model of these mapping processes. NLP is a methodology that proves its value when it is applied to any field of endeavor. Therefore, when we teach NLP, we teach it in a way that allows you to apply it to your specific desires and goals. If you want to improve your golf game, be more romantic, be more persuasive, successful, more spiritual, NLP can help you do that. It is not about academia, but is experiential and encourages the totally useful approach—insatiable curiosity and flexibility. It’s about setting directions,. accelerated learning, and is an extensive brain training. NLP is a methodology that leaves behind it a trail of techniques. Techniques become outdated and the NLP model allows for generation of new techniques. While we do teach techniques, we also teach behavioral and valuable language skills. Language, after all, is our middle name. We believe in whatever is useful, whatever works. Richard Bandler is consistently creating new developments in NLP. It is ever changing and moving forward. In fact, he now has two new books: Get the Life You Want and Richard Bandler’s Guide to Trance-formation. It keeps getting easier. Another of my favorites available on my online store is, Conversations, Freedom is Everything and Love is all the Rest. I am delighted to be associated Dr. Bandler and Bandler® Technologies™. I have the privilege of being the only Master Trainer of NLP™ and DHE™ certified and approved by Dr. Bandler and the Society of NLP™ in Chicago and the entire Midwest. ©Barbara Stepp, NLP™, DHE™ Master Trainer, Hypnotist, Reiki Master Teacher. Excellence Quest Training Institute P.O. Box 194, Flossmoor, IL 60422. www.excelquest.com. 708-799-5329.
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