NLP shows us how to access our unconscious minds, and also provides techniques for making changes at the unconscious level. Because the change is unconscious, it is easier, faster and more permanent. Well, look at the story below:

“A few years ago I was standing in my friend’s garden with her, her husband and her two year old son, who was playing at her feet. A large cat suddenly jumped onto her garden wall. She screamed and grabbed her son. He instantly picked up on her fear and started crying. The cat stayed immobile on the wall. Her husband annoyed that she had taught their son to be frightened of cats, took him from her, and tried to show him that the cat was friendly, but his son was terrified, even though the cat had not attacked anyone. Her son had learned, in an instant, to be afraid of cats.”

The brain does not differentiate between a wanted or unwanted behavior. It just does things to get results. So, where you have learnt to feel anxious in a situation, you can unlearn that too.

However, you can also learn positive behaviors instantly. If you change your hair style and everyone tells you how great it looks, you automatically style it that way more often. Every time you have a moment of realization like this, your brain makes a new connection and you are learning. And it is in this ability to use NLP techniques to unlearn unwanted behavior, and learn desired behavior, that one solution to anxiety lays.

NLP teaches you how to change your unwanted actions into excellent actions and behaviors, so instead of feeling anxious about having to lead the client presentation and how you might mess this up, your behavior would be to feel excited and motivated about how well you will be able to lead the client presentation.

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