What is NLP?

Neuro = the fundamental idea that all behaviour is the result of the information we receive from our five senses.

Linguistic = the fact that we use language to arrange our thoughts and communicate.

Programming = the way we use the above to create our behaviour.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) has a central place in Cognitive Hypnotherapy. It is a great tool for understanding the differences in the way people think; understanding how people can experience the same event, yet interpret it differently, react to it differently, and remember it differently.

Each person's memories, beliefs, values and decisions, favoured sense (Visual, Auditory or Kinaesthetic), and so called Metaprograms (personality type, e.g. extrovert/introvert), develop over time into a unique “model of the world”. Each of us uses this internal map to make sense of the world around us.

This map has a profound effect on our thoughts and behaviour, and our relationship with others, because we tend to think that our map is the same as everybody else's.

Neuro Linguistic Programming provides a wide range of techniques that can quickly change the unhelpful maps that we have into more helpful ones. This can be done, for example, by safely and easily changing the images, sounds or physical sensations associated with a problem or problematic memory.

NLP has the potential to improve any situation where communication is a factor, whether between you and another person, or just within yourself.

About health, the quality of our thoughts can have a major impact on stress levels within our body. By keeping thinking negatively or viewing the world through limiting beliefs, the body may respond by weakening the immune system, which can lead to illness and susceptibility to disease.

Becoming aware of negative thought patterns and replacing them with positive ones, creates the conditions necessary for re-building health.

On its own NLP can provide a potent means for personal change. Incorporating NLP to Cognitive Hypnotherapy provides a cutting-edge approach to modern therapy that allows positive change quickly and permanently.