What is NLP?

A lot of people I meet – at my seminars, online, in my networks, are interested in the fastest ways to achieve personal change and improve the quality of their lives. So they ask me how I use NLP to bring this change to my clients, and what NLP actually is.

I give a detailed description below, but, in one sentence, my friend, NLP provides me with amazing tools which I tailor to help my clients achieve personal changes and move quickly toward achieving their goals, to clear emotions and blockages, and to overcome fear and grief, within one or two sessions.

Neurolinguistic programming, or NLP, was originally developed by a psychologist, Richard Bandler, and a linguist, John Grinder. The American motivational speaker Tony Robbins has trained with Grinder and utilised NLP ideas for his own motivational and self-help programs.
Here is the quick definition of NLP: it helps you avoid a slow, long process of change by helping you to learn to change MORE QUICKLY than therapy, for example.

Richard Bandler

Many people suffer from the lack of knowledge of how their system of beliefs and attitudes influences the quality of their lives. Their perception of their career and life in general is clouded by the excuses and reasons why they cannot succeed. This is one of the reasons why NLP coaching has become one of the leading techniques for achieving fast and lasting personal change.

Personal transformation coaching has become a major field in NLP coaching. Every successful business person works with a coach or mentor. So do successful sports people, and people aspiring to constantly improving the quality of their life.

A more extensive definition includes, but is not limited to:
NLP looks at patterns and processes, rather than content. Your coach or NLP practitioner does not dig into the story of your life and make you analyse why things happened. It instead uses language and non-verbal communication cues to identify behavioural patterns.
It is also an enhancement technique of modelling.
The main role of the NLP practitioner is to take the client – yes, YOU, from effect to cause.

NLP uses different techniques to help you develop more effective strategies in life.
It’s a way of replacing unhelpful behavioural patterns with useful, resourceful strategies. Unlike traditional techniques, NLP gives quick results in personal transformation.

The techniques I use help you with clearing, energising, and transforming your mind, body and spirit. You’ll find the NLP coaching tools applicable to all areas of your life: business - sales, management, communication, and coaching/mentoring; teaching, sports, therapy, personal growth, as well as relationships. They are proven to work, producing tangible results.

Elena Long

NLP Practitioner and Relationship Coach

The Steps of an NLP Coaching Session

These in essence are the steps of a transformational coaching session.

I Like This... But I Can't

Some advanced thoughts on NLP.
You can only make a change if you are DETERMINED!

Modelling Genius

Source: http://www.the-secret-of-mindpower-and-nlp.com/Modelling-Genius.html

Modelling Genius – an NLP technique

The technique we are suggesting on this page is the same whether you have insight and confidence or whether you don’t.  

As always, we suggest you read through the instructions completely before starting the exercise.

If you find meditation music aids your concentration, play some softly in the background.  

Now, put yourself into a frame of mind where you can relax and go inside yourself – into your own particular zone, so to speak.

Go to wherever you go to think, study or meditate, or any other place which you feel is good for your peace of mind.  Sit comfortably and preferably with your feet on the floor.  

Now find a spot on the facing wall that you can concentrate your attention upon.

Modelling Genius with peripheral vision

As you concentrate upon that spot, and without moving your eyes or your head, become aware of the edges of your vision.  

This is what we refer to as your peripheral vision.  Become aware of how high and low you can detect images and movement.

At the same time as you do that also become aware of how wide you can detect image and movement even though you are still focusing on the spot on the wall opposite.  

Continue doing this and see how much wider you can open your vision upwards, downwards and sideways.

Now, as your awareness of everything around you is growing – and still concentrating on the spot -  become aware of what is happeningbehind you and stretch your peripheral vision to its furthest limits.

If you are finding it difficult to see the back of your head, imagine a ball at the back top edge of your head and stretch your peripheral vision until you can visualise it there.

Modelling Genius using an altered state

Now become aware of the way you feel in this state.  People will vary but you may feel an intense state of concentration or detachment and your general awareness may grow.  

However it feels to you, it is an altered state which should aid your concentration and understanding.

This is also a very good state in which to acquire knowledge and understanding, so if you are studying for an examination, for example, try putting yourself into this state each time you have a study session, and put yourself back into the state at the time of the examination.  Your recall and results should improve.

For these purposes, however, think now about what you want to achieve.  

Look deeply inside yourself and see where you have the qualities that you believe you require in order to get where you want, and if you can’t recognise some or all of them consider other people, living or dead, who have obtained or achieved precisely what you wish for yourself.

Make a note of the qualities or skills that you think you desire and, in this state, envisage those people who have been successful in the field you are thinking about and make a note of them also. 

Modelling Genius by research

You may at this stage need to do a little research to identify individuals on which to model yourself.  

If it is a particular sporting achievement that you wish to emulate or successful business person, that is fairly straightforward. 

Research them in libraries, or on the net, read biographies, look for interviews with them on Youtube or other  suitable media, but above allfind out everything you can about how they achieved their success.

It will not always come from their own mouths because successful people do not always know precisely how they have achieved what they did, so you may also need to rely upon your own observations and those of other commentators.  Saturate yourself with as much information about them as is possible.

It may be that you will need to look at more than one model of genius to fulfil the particular criteria you are seeking.  The same applies no matter how many you study. 

Modelling Genius with an interview

If you can get an interview with one or more of them, so much the better.  You may be saying to yourself right now, “But that’s impossible”.  My response is, you don’t know until you ask.  

There are many superstars and successful people out there who are happy to share their knowledge with those who wish to emulate them. 

Think of it this way:  if your request is refused or ignored, you are in no different a position than you are now.  But if they say yes, where might that lead? 

There is certainly nothing to lose.  Remember the old cliché,Nothing ventured, nothing gained, and act upon it.

Modelling past genius

When you are considering who to model, remember those great people who are no longer with us.  

On this site you will find a number of mock interviews with those we consider to be Real Men of Genius and Real Women of Genius. 

They are designed to whet your appetite and to give you a flavour of the talents and characteristics which they displayed during their lifetimes – and that we all have within us – as well as some of their principal achievements.

Read them and see where they lead you.  Some will match your own ambitions more than others.  

Where you find one or more of them particularly inspire you, research them in greater depth.  

Find out more.  Model yourself on them, discover your own genius, and maybe you too will, one day, inspire others by the way you live your life.

Modelling Genius and returning to the altered state

Finally, when you have accumulated all the information you feel you need on which to model the qualities or abilities you desire, recreate the state you started with at the beginning of all this by looking at the spot on the wall and following that exercise.

When you have achieved that altered state, review all the information you have and compare it with what you were looking for in the first place and think creatively how to use that information.  Be prepared to surprise yourself!

Here are some giants of the past to start you off:

Real Men of Genius Articles:

·         Abraham Lincoln

·         Albert Einstein

·         Antoni Gaudi

·         Carl Jung

·         Charles Darwin

·         Charles Dickens

·         Christopher Wren

·         Confucius

·         George Washington

·         Hannibal

·         Horatio Nelson

·         Isaac Newton

·         Julius Caesar

·         Lawrence of Arabia

·         Leonardo da Vinci

·         Michelangelo

·         Mohatma Gandhi

·         Napoleon Bonaparte

·         Nicolas Copernicus

·         Oscar Wilde

·         Rembrandt

·         Robert Burns

·         R L Stevenson

·         Socrates

·         Walt Disney

·         William Shakespeare

·         Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Real Women of Genius Articles:

·         Eleanor Roosevelt

·         Florence Nightingale

·         Margaret Thatcher

·         Marie Curie

·         Mother Teresa

·         Queen Elizabeth I