Neuro Linguistic Programming

Have you ever heard of the saying, "you are what you eat"? 

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There is a lot of truth in this as the chemicals we put into our bodies not only define our shape, health, and energy levels, but also impact the physiology of the gut and brain. In other words, what we eat impacts how our brain works. Our brain controls our behaviour, so yes, what we eat is important to how we feel, think, and behave. 

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What about the saying, "you are WHAT you think"? This has a lot of merit because what you think effects how you feel which in turn effects how you behave. But what if I told you that this is not the full picture? 

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A better saying is, "you are HOW you think". Better still, you are a product of how you think, not what you think". 

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The Institute of Applied Psychology (IAP), explains NLP as:

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Neuro-Linguistic Programming describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay affects our body and behavior (programming).

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We basically create our own reality based on our experiences, mainly from our formative early years, using our senses of sight, sound, touch, smell (olfactory) and taste (gustatory). A good way to remember these is to borrow from Howard Gardners labels of VAK, visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic, and supplement them with O and G, to make VAKOG. 

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From an early age, we are bombarded with millions of bits of information from the environment. We quickly learn to filter out most of this and delete and distort the real picture/event and create our own reality. We run our own programmes of how to deal with situations based on these experiences and apply them to new situations. But we get things wrong because our reality is not real. We make decisions and jump to conclusions because we are programmed that way. We apply confirmation bias and generalise. This serves us well until it doesn't. That is why learning how to change HOW we think can have a massive impact on changing our behaviour. 

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We are a product of our behaviours. Learning how to change one's behaviour by challenging your limiting assumptions is at the heart of all change. Reframing and overlaying negative experiences with your more positive experiences, helps you to overcome your self-imposed limitations. 

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NLP is a powerful way to change your perceptions of experiences for the better. For a free chat about what is holding you back and to see if NLP can be of help, contact Ged.

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Ged McCann

MBA/NLP Practitioner

 

 

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