The Power of NLP
Posted by Ben TienDec 12
In NLP, we have learn about Visual (sight) – Auditory (hearing) – Kinesthetic (feeling) – Olfactory (smell) and Gustatory (taste). It is the internal representations of which we have. One which is more active than the others in terms of how we feel about the world and the language we use.
Our experience of an event depends on our internal representations, or I/Rs for short. Through our filtering system, we delete, distort and generalize information received based on our attitudes, beliefs, values and experiences. No two people will give exactly the same account of an experience.
What we say or hear in our mind, or feel, will affect our behavior and physiology. This in turn affects our emotional state. If someone is thinking unhappy thoughts, seeing someone in their mind whom they miss, their shoulders will droop, their mouth muscles will turn down and their whole physiology will become that of a depressed person. The more they hold that stance, the worse they will feel. But put a wide grin on your face, stupid as it may feel, pull your shoulders up and back and it is virtually impossible to feel depressed, regardless of the circumstances. Just a change in physiology has affected the emotional state for the better.
So, to control and direct our behaviors, we must control and direct our emotional state. To control our state, we must consciously direct our internal representations and physiologies.
The internal representations which produce a state that tells us that we cannot achieve are totally different to the new ones we can take on to empower us to produce positive results.
Sometimes we do not know what state we need to produce, what beliefs and attitudes to adopt and here we can model successful people. Identify what is making them successful and then make those traits a part of us.
We can learn techniques which lock in positive states and recall them whenever we need a boost, without resorting to external stimuli or artificial substances. This is the power of NLP.
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