Neuro Linguistic Programming Courses: Revolution Or Bunk?

Is it possible to reprogram the brain? Can reprogramming the brain change our behavior? Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a mixture of Linguistics, Semantics, Hypnosis, Behavioral and Cognitive Psychology. It’s about how we interpret the world we expertise via the input by way of our senses: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile, olfactory and gustatory. It really is about how we represent the globe to ourselves and to other people.

The events in our life have continually accumulated and have been stored in our subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind, in turn categorizes, generalizes, interprets and filters the inputs related to the events. This process creates what is typically referred to in NLP as “our map” of the planet. Moreover it is thought that the different events and experiences generate “states” in our physiology that are stored by our physiology and which in turn give rise to our behavior or reaction in given situations.

It has been demonstrated how the way we interpret the planet is shown via movement of the eyes. People vary in the way they knowledge events. Some expertise them kinesthetically, i.e. feelings, other individuals visually, some verbally (auditory), or any mixture thereof. For instance, we may ask a particular person “how was the party last evening?” If the eyes turn to the proper and downwards, it is probably that particular person is looking within for a memory of how she felt at that party. A individual who is a lot more auditory could turn her eyes left, an indication she is recalling conversations or music. A a lot more visual person’s eyes could turn upwards and to the right, indicating she might be recalling what people were wearing, or the decorations and so forth.

The responses those men and women will give to the query “how was the party last evening?” could go one thing like this: “Oh! I felt actually excellent, I had an great time”. The auditory individual could say: “The music was loud but I could nevertheless hear what Bill said about Nancy”. The visual individual: “The spot was done out with silver balloons and blue ribbons, it created a genuinely pleasant atmosphere.”

So can our interpretation or “map” of the world be altered or “tweaked” to suit our purposes, change our viewpoint, or modify our behavior? I say a definite yes! With the reservation that any alteration or tweaking needs to be done by an knowledgeable and ethical practitioner with the full consent of the subject otherwise the final results could be detrimental.

Due in component to its open-ended philosophy, NLP is controversial. It is at times criticized in the scientific community as unproven or pseudo-scientific. Amongst those who watch for fraud, it is criticized for exaggerated claims and unethical approaches by a number of practitioners. There is also some dispute among its developers and proponents concerning what NLP is and is not.

At a single seminar, a participant, who was an engineer, asked me “did I think?” I said I did, but that it could not work for everyone. For the duration of the NLP course this participant, getting disagreed with one thing the presenter stated, stormed out never to be observed once again proving my point specifically.

Getting studied NLP, and volunteered in the course of demonstration of strategies having applied tactics to several clientele with excellent outcomes I can only say it worked for me and it worked for them. I undoubtedly am a believer…and yes, it is feasible to reprogram the brain!