n the late 1970’s, two individuals from completely different fields, i.e. linguistics and mathematics, in an attempt to assist others to lead more fulfilling lives joined forces to provide a more understandable explanation of the connection between the different neurological processes,i.e. body and mind communication, language,i.e. how humans respond to language and programming of daily behavioural patterns.
This is how Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) was created. Richard Bandler (mathematician) and John Grinder ( linguist). These two founders state that since the human brain came without a user manual, it can be trained and programmed to act and function in a particular way.
This method of enhancing human communication and personal growth, is said to be able to help in handling and dealing with complications like depression, learning and habit disorders, phobias, psychosomatic disorders etc. Therapists have been known to include NLP in their programmes. Most companies have used this method to help motivate their employees while some people have included it in their programs during Self Improvement and awareness seminars and workshops.
One of the ways that this method seeks to help you better your life, according to the founders, is by equipping you with great communication and negotiation skills to help you communicate effectively with other people such as your family, employer, neighbour, colleague, etc. It allegedly contains instructions pertaining to self hypnosis with the aim to motivate and improve oneself. It is also believed to achieve the goal of motivating one to think positively about oneself and create the desire to share this new found knowledge with others in need of the same assistance.
Some of the people that have used this kind of approach to improve their lives, have reported that it effectively enabled them to improve immensely in their areas of work, studies, career, relationships etc. by helping them to think better and in a clearer way than before. This method can also help you gain a positive attitude to help achieve dreams that previously seemed impossible, control and manage your thoughts, actions and thinking pattern and also be able to communicate well with others. It is seen and considered as the shortest way to achieving great success for people in business, sports, education, marketing, and those simply seeking personal growth development.
If you are interested in this program, online searches will help you find individuals and groups such as Pegasus, that offer courses in this method using techniques that will help you identify things like, how to achieve success by studying successful people’s behavioural patterns, and how to incorporate what you have learnt into your daily lifestyle, by replacing your behavioural patterns with the ones you have learnt, in order to improve and grow.
It is important to do your research well before trying to use this approach to improve your life. Some scientists, linguistics, skeptics and psychologists have disputed the fact that Nlp is as effective as claimed, since there is no scientific proof on its capabilities. The main reason for this being that scientists identified the incorrect application of their concepts and terms, therefore the effectiveness as claimed by the founders is said to be void.
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