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NLP techniques, tools & terminology. Addiction, habits, weight and smoking. | |||||||||||||
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An Overview NLP has become famous for the techniques it offers to bring about effective and lasting change. For example, NLP has a technique called the Fast Phobia Cure developed by Richard Bandler. Via this technique, we can now cure a phobia in ten to fifteen minutes. We have used the procedure to cure phobias of water, bees, elevators, heights, public speaking, small places, airplanes, etc. Best of all, we have done it in just minutes--with the effect lasting (in some cases) years! The Fast Phobia Cure represents just one of many techniques for such change. We have used Time-lines Processes to remove traumatic pictures from the minds of traumatized people. Additionally, we have even learned to use the NLP patterns of Reframing, Swishing, Collapsing Anchors, etc. conversationally which means that we do not have to use these patterns in an overtly "therapeutic" way. We can speak in a way that facilitates a person to think in new ways thereby leaving them feeling more whole and empowered--with "renewed minds." Language (and languaging) works that powerfully! However, NLP involves so much more than just a tool box of techniques. Richard Bandler says, "NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques." The attitude of NLP involves one of intense and excited curiosity. It involves the desire to know what goes on behind the scenes. With this kind of attitude of curiosity, we want to know what makes the human mind work. Second, NLP involves an attitude of experimentation. With such an experimentational attitude, we "try things," and then try something else, and then something else... always trying, getting results, using the feedback, and experimenting with something else. If something doesn't work, we try something else, and we keep doing so until we find something that does works. Bandler and Grinder possessed such an attitude of curiosity and experimentation in their original discoveries that brought about NLP. The methodology of NLP also involves modeling (copying) of excellence. As Bandler and Grinder modeled excellence in the genius of Perls, Satir, and Erickson, they produced the original format of NLP. Modeling thus describes the methodology (approach) that produced the original trail of techniques. |