Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Rolls off the tongue doesn't it?

For some yes it does for others it is something that is laced with danger. What is it all about? Well it is all about change.

Bandler and Grinder and a few others besideds began looking at how we use language and what it had to do with our behaviour, our habits.

Neuro it's all about the brain, nerves etc but in this case how the brain takes in and processes information.

Linguistics All about language and how we use it and how it affects us.

Programming (the part most people have a problem with) how we take in information and process it to acheive our goals.

The bit in the brackets...well what does programming mean to you? Some see it as a manipulation or brainwashing type of situation. Others have no trouble with the idea at all. If we look at the brain as a computer, the only one of its kind in the world that can do what it does every day all day ALL THE TIME, taking in all the information that it does one wonders why we are not all genius material. Super genius even.

Well it all has to do with beliefs and values and other things that we use to filter through our experiences in life. We choose to make habits because they serve us. For some of us those habits though not serving us anymore are not given up. Things like smoking or overeating, right the way through to low self esteem, lack of confidence and predjudices for and against certain things.

The brain is a learning machine, it loves to have new input...but we also love the familiar even if that is less than good for us. So if you come to us and tell us what you want to change, we will listen to not only what you tell us but to how you tell us and then we will give you the choice to change.

Here are a few articles on what goes on when you begin to notice how we describe ourselves, our lives and our foibles.

Ubiquitously Universal

Our love affair with the Universal Quantifiers

Everything you ever wanted to know...everything?

How do you know that that will be every thing? Does it mean that once you have been told or read the thing beginning with the words, every, all or even on occasion absolutely that you will win the quiz programmes and be the most intelligent person around? That you can stop now and just be...?

All or nothing.

As we do, us human types we love a plethora of things, it makes us feel that we have a choice in the matter, the above choice seems very straightforward, all or nothing. We know what we like, and the Universal quantifier, we like very much. How many times do we hear, He never does what I want him to do, or I always do it this way? That is how it always happens! It is an absolute fact that everyone knows, do they now?

We are wired to generalise, and the Universal Quantifier facilitates us in doing this ALL THE TIME! We feel it gives us choices, we hear how acceptable it sounds to us; we see how it can be applied to a given situation. So it is interesting is it not to discover how the questioning of this small, seemingly innocuous word can actually increase our choices in changing our behaviour? When we look more closely and realise that not everyone always ever knows all the things that nobody knows is absolutely nothing to do with all they ever wanted to know, things can change.