NLP today is one of the most popular areas of existing applied psychology. The scope of its application is very extensive: psychotherapy, medicine, marketing, political and management consulting, pedagogy, business, advertising.
Unlike most other practically oriented psychological disciplines, NLP provides operational change, solving the problems of both an individual and society as a whole. At the same time, everything is carried out in an unconditionally effective environmental regime.
Introduction to Neuro Linguistic Programming
It's worth starting with the fact that NLP is a kind of art, a science of excellence, the result of studying the achievements of outstanding people in various fields of activity. The positive point is that absolutely anyone can master such communication skills. You just need to have the desire to improve your professional personal effectiveness.
Neuro Linguistic Programming: what is it?
There are various models of excellence built by NLP in communication, education, business, therapy. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a specific model for how individuals structure their unique life experiences. We can say that this is only one of the many ways of understanding, organizing the most complex, but unique system of communication and human thoughts.
NLP: history of origin
It appeared in the early 70s, was the result of a collaboration between D. Grinder (at that time an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California at Santa Cruz) and R. Bandler (there - a student of psychology), who was very passionate about psychotherapy. Together they investigated the activities of 3 great psychotherapists: V. Satir (family therapist, she took on such cases that other specialists considered hopeless), F. Perls (innovator of psychotherapy, founder of the Gest alt therapy school), M. Erickson (world famous hypnotherapist).
Grinder and Bandler revealed the patterns (templates) used by the above psychotherapists, deciphered them, subsequently built a fairly elegant model that can be used in effective communication, and in personal change, and as part of accelerated learning, and even to get more life's pleasure.
Richard and John in thosetimes lived near G. Bateson (English anthropologist). He was the author of works on systems theory and communication. His scientific interests were very extensive: cybernetics, psychotherapy, biology, anthropology. He is known to many for his theory of the 2nd link in schizophrenia. Bateson's contribution to NLP is extraordinary.
NLP has evolved in two complementary ways: as a process for identifying mastery patterns in all areas of human life, and as a fairly effective way of communication and thinking practiced by outstanding people.
In 1977, Grinder and Bandler held a series of successful public seminars across America. This art is spreading rapidly, as evidenced by the statistics that to date, approximately 100,000 people have received training in one form or another.
Origin of the name of the science in question
Neuro-linguistic programming: what is it, based on the meaning of the words included in this term? The word "neuro" refers to the fundamental idea that human behavior originates in neurological processes such as seeing, tasting, smelling, touching, hearing, and feeling. Mind and body form an inseparable unity - the human being.
The "linguistic" component of the name demonstrates the use of language in order to organize one's thoughts, one's behavior in order to be able to communicate with other people.
"Programming" implies an indication of how a person organizes his actions, ideas in order to obtain the desired result.
NLP Basics: Maps, Filters, Frames
All people use the senses in order to perceive the world around us, to study it, to transform it. The world is an endless variety of sensory manifestations, but people can perceive only a tiny part of it. The information received is subsequently filtered by unique experiences, language, values, assumptions, culture, beliefs, interests. Each person lives in some unique reality, which is built from purely personal sensory impressions, individual experience. His actions are based on what he perceives - his personal model of the world.
The world around us is so vast and rich that people are forced to simplify it in order to comprehend it. A good example of this is the creation of geographic maps. They are selective: they carry information and at the same time miss it, however, they still act as an incomparable assistant in the process of exploring the territory. From the fact that a person knows where he wants to go, it also depends on what kind of map he makes.
People are equipped with numerous natural, necessary, beneficial filters. Language is a filter, a map of the thoughts of a particular person, his experiences, which is separated from the real world.
Basics of Neuro-Linguistic Programming - Behavioral Framework. This is the understanding of human action. So, the first frame is focusing on the result, and not on a specific problem. This means that the subject is looking for something to strive for, then finds suitable solutions, and subsequently applies them to achieve the goal. The focus on the problem is most often referred to as the “blame frame”. It consists in a deep analysis of the existing reasons for the impossibility of achieving the desired result.
The next frame (second) is to ask exactly the question "how?", not "why?". It will lead the subject to recognize the structure of the problem.
The essence of the third frame is feedback instead of failure. There is no such thing as failure, only results. The first is a way of describing the second. Feedback keeps the target in sight.
Consideration of possibility rather than necessity is the fourth frame. The focus should be on possible actions, and not on existing circumstances that limit a person.
NLP also welcomes curiosity, surprise instead of pretense. At first glance, this is a fairly simple idea, but it has very profound implications.
Another useful idea is the ability to create internal resources that a person needs to achieve his goal. Faith in the correctness of actions will help to achieve success rather than supposing the opposite. This is nothing but Neuro Linguistic Programming. What it is has already become clear, so it’s worth moving on to considering its methods and techniques.
NLP Methods
These are the main theoretical, practical aspects of using Neuro-Linguistic Programming. These include:
- anchoring;
- submodality editing;
- swipe methods;
- work with obsessive, problematic, phobic states.
These are the basic methods of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Changing the perception of an event
This is one of the exercises to apply the simplest technique of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. For example, jealousy. It proceeds in 3 consecutive stages: visualization (imagining a scene of betrayal), then audialization (representing the sound accompaniment of a scene of betrayal) and at the end - kinesthetic perception (the appearance of a negative feeling of betrayal).
The essence of this technique is the violation of one of the stages. In this example, this may be the conviction that the scene of betrayal is far-fetched at the first stage, at the second - presenting it to the accompaniment of funny music, which leads to a change in the perception of the whole picture as a whole at the third stage (it becomes funny). This is how Neuro Linguistic Programming works. There are a variety of examples: imaginary illness, the power of photographic memory, etc.
Pedagogy as a field of application of NLP
As mentioned earlier, there are a large number of areas where Neuro Linguistic Programming is used. Training can also take place using methods, NLP techniques.
Scientists say that through neuro-linguistic programming, a significant part of the school material can be mastered much faster, more efficiently without educationschool phobias, mainly due to the development of student abilities. With all this, this process is very exciting. This applies to any teaching activity.
The school has its own unique culture, which is formed from several subcultures that have their own patterns of learning process, non-verbal communication.
Due to the fact that school educational levels are differentiated, each of them generates its own patterns of effective learning styles. These levels are grouped into categories:
1. Primary School. At the age of 6, children leave the walls of the kindergarten and enter the 1st grade as a so-called kinesthetic creature. Educators know that children experience the real world through touch, smell, taste, etc. In elementary school, a typical practice is to go through procedures – kinesthetic learning.
2. Secondary school. Starting from the 3rd grade, adjustments are made to the learning process: the transition from kinesthetic perception to auditory. Children who find it difficult to adapt to this transition are left to finish their studies or they are transferred to special classes.
3. High school students. Another transition is being made from auditory to visual perception. The presentation of school material becomes more symbolic, abstract, graphic.
This is the basics of Neuro Linguistic Programming.
Corridor and conveyor
The first concept is the place where the development of the student's lagging modality takes place. In other words, the corridor is aimed at the process, and the conveyor is aimed at the content.
When focusing on the latter, the teacher should use neuro-linguistic programming: learning through multi-sensory techniques in order to provide each individual student with the opportunity to choose the process that is familiar to him. However, as a rule, the "conveyor" teacher builds the learning process in the first modality, while the "corridor" teacher will need to choose an individual approach to each student (corridor). Thus, the ability to establish an appropriate learning style is the basis for success.
Application of NLP in sects
There are also areas of life where neuro-linguistic programming acts as a lever of negative manipulation. Various examples can be given. Most often these are sects.
Alexander Kapkov (sectologist) believes that at one time secret methods of neuro-linguistic programming were quite often used in various religious groups, for example, in Ron Hubbard's sect. They are very effective for quick and effective zombification of adherents (they allow you to manipulate a person). The effects of psychotechniques in sects are passed off as indulgence of grace.
The article described what Neuro-Linguistic Programming is (what it is, what methods and techniques it uses), as well as examples of its practical application.
