How To Use Neuro-Linguistic Programming in Your Daily Life
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What is Neuro-linguistic Programming?
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is like the “Brain User Manual”.
Beginning in the 1970s, researchers began to study the effects of our thoughts on our minds.
The NLP techniques that have been discovered can be powerfully effective in changing the way you experience the world. As our thoughts and feelings shape our reality, this means that these NLP techniques can transform your entire life.
Here are five of the most impactful NLP techniques when it comes to changing your behavior and helping you develop your skills and aptitudes.
5 NLP techniques that will transform your life
Dissociation
Have you ever been in a situation that made you feel bad? Perhaps you have experienced something that brings you down every time you experience it. Or maybe you get nervous in certain work situations where you have to speak in public.
You may feel shy when you want to get closer to that "special someone" you've noticed. Although these feelings of sadness, nervousness, or shyness seem to be automatic or uncontrollable, NLP dissociation techniques can be of great help.
- Identify the emotion (fear, anger, discomfort, or disgust with a situation) that you want to get rid of
- Imagine that you can float outside your body and look at yourself, seeing the whole circumstance from the perspective of an observer.
- Note that the sentiment changes drastically.
- For an added boost, imagine that you can float out of your body looking at yourself, then float out of your body again so that you are looking at yourself, looking at yourself. This double dissociation should remove negative emotions from almost all minor situations.
Reframing the content
Try this technique when you feel like a situation is negative or powerless. Reframing will take any negative situation and strengthen it, transforming the meaning of the experience into something positive.
For example, let's say your relationship ends. This may sound horrible on the surface, but let's reflect. What are the possible benefits of being single? For example, you are now open to other potential relationships.
You also have the freedom to do what you want, when you want. And you learned valuable lessons from that relationship that will allow you to have better relationships in the future.
These are all examples of reframing a situation. By reframing the meaning of the breakup, you give yourself a different experience.
In expected situations, it's natural to panic or focuses on fear, but this only leads to more problems. Instead, changing your focus in the ways described helps you clear your mind and make responsible, unbiased decisions.
Anchorage
The anchor comes from the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov, who experimented on dogs by ringing a bell several times while eating. After repeatedly ringing the bell, he discovered that he could make dogs salivate by ringing the bell at any time, even if there was no food.
This created a neurological association between the bell and salivation behavior called a conditioned response.
You can use these types of stimulus-response "anchors" yourself!
Anchoring helps you associate any desired positive emotional response with a specific phrase or feeling.
When you choose a positive emotion or thought and deliberately connect it with a simple gesture, you can activate that anchor whenever you feel down and your feelings will change immediately.
Make other people love you (Rapport)
This is a simple set of NLP techniques, but they have the power to help you get along with almost anyone. There are many ways to establish a relationship with another person.
One of the fastest and most effective ways comes from NLP. This technique involves subtly mirroring another person's body language, tone of voice, and words.
People like people who are like themselves. By subtly mirroring the other person, the brain fires "mirror neurons," pleasure sensors in the brain, which cause people to have a feeling of affection for the mirror.
The technique is simple: stand or sit while the other person is sitting. Tilt your head in the same way. Smile when they smile. Mirror your facial expression. Cross your legs when they cross theirs, etc.
The key to creating an unconscious relationship is subtlety. If you are too open, the other person may consciously notice, which would likely break the relationship. So keep your reflection natural and calm.
Influence and persuasion
While much of NLP's work is devoted to helping people eliminate negative emotions, limiting beliefs, bad habits, conflicts, and more, another part of NLP is devoted to how to ethically influence and persuade others.
One of the mentors in the field was a man named Milton H. Erickson. Erickson was a psychiatrist who also studied the subconscious mind through hypnotherapy (the real thing, the scientific thing, not the mindless entertainment you see on the shows).
Erickson was so skilled with hypnosis that he developed a way to talk to other people's subconscious without hypnosis. He could literally hypnotize people anytime, anywhere in everyday conversations. This Ericksonian method of hypnosis became known as "conversational hypnosis."
This is a very powerful tool that can be used to not only influence and persuade others, but also to help others overcome fears, limiting beliefs, conflicts, and more without their realizing it.
This is especially helpful when dealing with people who might be hesitant if they knew (think teenagers who don't want to hear it).
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