Who can benefit?
NLP can be used in absolutely every area of life by anyone for their benefit and the benefit of others.

Who would not benefit through greater rapport with others, better communication privately and  publicly, increased personal congruency, being able to choose their state, having more choices of behaviour, more choice of response meaning freedom from unwanted behaviours or responses and greater overall wellbeing?

What does it do?
NLP is a model about change and how people can get more of the results they want.  It is about respecting peoples model of the world and offering them more choice in their lives.  This might be in terms of helping you to be healthy, succeed at work, find a rewarding relationship or better personal alignment and congruency.  It identifies ways in which language programmes the brain and affects much of what we create in our lives.  It challenges us to explore our beliefs about ourselves and the world and where appropriate teaches ways to change them for the better.  It offers the opportunity for people to review and influence their past so that it becomes an incredibly powerful tool to help them now and in the future.

How does it do this?
NLP has a range of techniques that can be used to set achievable goals, build self esteem, affect our well-being and inner peace and be more in touch with ourselves.  It taps into probably our most amazing, yet underused asset, our unconscious.  You learn how to communicate with yourself and others on a level you have probably rarely experienced.  If we can understand  how our body takes in information, codes it, transforms it and responds to it, we can modify the code and therefore choose our response.

What can it do for me?
Greater awareness of self, and the resources you have available.  Ways to use your own brain and language to bring about change and influence others.  An ability to get into rapport with just about anyone, quickly and effectively, when you chose to.   An ability to really understand what people are saying and how they are creating their own results.  An ability to choice your state (emotion, feelings, attitude) in any circumstance.  An understanding of your own values in different areas of your life.  An understanding of the areas where you have inner conflict and the ability to resolve the conflict.  An ability to achieve high performance states in yourself and others whenever you want.  The opportunity to communicate effectively with others enabling them to bring about lasting change in their lives.

Why not organise a taster session for your group, organisation or company where you can get to experience the magic of NLP?  Or if you already know a little about NLP and would like to know more you could consider attending an NLP Practitioner course in Lincoln in May with Inspired2Be and become a qualified NLP practitioner.

NLP has many aspects, here are just 4:

1. It is a system of modelling that allows you to model anyone else and reproduce what they do.  By observation, assimilation and breaking down what they do into a ‘code’ you can do what they do.  The final stage or test is to teach this to someone who has not seen the original and see if they can also reproduce the model.On my Master Practitioner course I decided to really test this out so I decided to model 2 excellent dancers and attempt to do the waltz!  As my wife of over 30 years would testify, me and dance do not mix well so this was a real test.  I watched I digested, I coded, I demonstrated and watched in amazement as a group of people very quickly started imitating the dancers I had watched.
2. We all have things that remind us of old memories.  It may be a colour or picture, a smell, a sound or even a taste – whatever it is when we get that stimulus we also get back all the old feelings and sensations associated with it.  Just try that, think of your favourite piece of music or maybe a particular smell or taste and see how you feel and what images spring to mind.  In NLP we call these anchors.  Once you understand how anchors work and how to make them you can change the way you feel in a moment.
3. NLP also allows us to discover the way that we code all of our experiences and how we view and feel about those experiences when we recall them.  We call the elements that make up this code submodalities and these open up a whole world of possibilities because if we know the code, we can then choose to code things the way we want to.For instance, if I know how I code feeling confident and relaxed, then next time I am in  a situation where I want to feel confident and relaxed I can utilize my code and have a choice of how I want to feel.
4. The core of how we act and feel is determined to a large part by language, verbal and non-verbal.  NLP really lets you look deeply into language and understand what people are saying beneath what they are saying even when they don’t consciously know themselves.  Once you start to gain this deeper understanding you can very quickly become a master communicator and communicate incredibly powerful whenever and with whoever you choose to.

Because NLP works mainly at the unconscious level the changes that can be made in your life and those you work with can be dramatic and long lasting.

If you want a life changing experience why not become an NLP practitioner?  I will be running 2 courses in UK this year,  Lincoln 12-20 May and in Coventry 13-21 October.

Bye for now – more to follow.

Andy Greene

Master Practitioner and certified trainer of NLP

Contact form www.inspired2be.com or Tel  07941 881515