NLP

What is NLP?

NLP is an acronym for Neuro Linguistic Programming and it’s like a user manual for your brain.

Neuro - Refers to your brain and nervous system through which we gather information through our five senses; sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell, and how we process this information to form our experiences.

Linguistic - Refers to all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication you use to make sense of your experiences, through which our internal representations are then coded, ordered and given meaning.

Programming - Refers to how you have learned to behave, the patterns, programmes and strategies that we run in our neurology to achieve the results that we get.

Where did NLP come from?

NLP was originally developed by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the 1970’s. Bandler (an information scientist) and Grinder (a linguist) teamed up as they both had a mutual fascination of human excellence and how people influenced each other. They had the belief that it could be possible to duplicate behavioural excellence, therefore enabling more people to create their desired outcomes in life.

They used a process called ‘Human Modeling’ which is the core of NLP. Modeling is a process where by you find someone that is highly effective at achieving something, and then model this person, or how they perform, in order to achieve that specific task or goal.

From this research the results were simply coded into techniques, strategies and systems’ forming what is now known as NLP.

So NLP isn’t based on a theory it’s based on the making of models. A model doesn’t have to be correct or perfect it just needs to be useful when applied to what it’s been designed for.

What is Time Line Therapy ™?

Your "Time Line" is how you unconsciously store your memories or how you unconsciously know the difference between a memory from the past and a projection of the future.

Behavioural change in an individual takes place at an unconscious level, we don’t consciously change behaviours. Time Line Therapy™ allows you to work at the unconscious level to release negative emotions from past events and experiences. It also allows you to work at the unconscious level to release limiting beliefs and decisions that you have made in the past and are now inappropriate to where you want to be.

What is Hypnosis?

Hypnosis has been described as an altered state of awareness that is therapeutically beneficial to you, the client. It is a natural state of both relaxation and concentration that you allow yourself to enter with the assistance of your practitioner so that desired, beneficial suggestions may be given directly to the unconscious mind. You are in complete control, and you will only accept suggestions that are consistent with your own internal values and beliefs.

Hypnosis is not a magical process: you are not asleep, your mind is alert and you hear everything that is said, whether you choose to listen to it or not.