How an NLP course Reframing Phase train your mind

In this blog, we will see how the second element of an NLP Course (Reframing Phase) can help you train your mind. We have been talking about the ARM of NLP, where
A – Anchoring
R- Reframing
M – Modelling
are the three fundamental aspects of NLP. All the techniques of NLP form a part of either of these three. In our last blog, we saw how Anchoring can help you train your mind. Anchoring as a part of the course in NLP can help you train your mind using NLP.
Now let us see how the NLP Course Reframing phrase can help you train your mind.

NLP Course Reframing – Definition:

Reframing is an interesting but very powerful concept in NLP. It is not that, Reframing evolved through NLP. Reframing has been a part and parcel of people, the world over.

All the religions and wisdom practices actually propagate reframing in various ways. An NLP course that teaches reframing can help you train your mind.
What NLP has done is to structure it in an effective way, so that it can be made teachable and learnable. What people have been doing as reframing, unconsciously can now be done more consciously and could be learned, to be done more effectively.
We already saw that the philosophy of NLP is this:

• Neuro – Experience (derived through the 5 senses)
• Linguistic – Meaning ( given by using language)
• Programming – Behavior ( that emanates from the meaning).

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The experience we have with this world (Territory as NLP would call it) could be a positive or negative one. If it is positive we would enjoy it. If it is negative we would strive to change it. If it is possible to change it, it is OK and we feel good.

But what if, we are not able to change the negative experience. We fight harder and in the process, we suffer more. Suffering is defined as an argument with reality. The more we fight the more we suffer.

Based on what we saw before, it is the meaning of the experience that creates positivity or negativity to it. It is said that pain could not be avoided but suffering is optional. Suffering is at the level of the mind and is dependent on the meaning we attribute to the experience.

So if the experience is difficult to change, NLP would suggest we, stop fighting with the experience and treat it as neutral. Then with our creative faculty, it would ask us to create a better meaning for the same experience.

A micro-managing boss could be extremely frustrating. But while still working under him, if a subordinate gets frustrated, because of that frustration he might make more mistakes, which would, in turn, prove that the boss was right – he has to micromanage.

This experience could be reframed as something more positive. The boss strives for perfection and I can learn from him and become more perfect. Or going a step further, the boss cares for me so much, that he does not want me to make mistakes and I can appreciate that. 😉

The idea here is, to enter a state of mind, that can help the employee perform his job well so that the micromanaging boss can micromanaging is no more necessary.

A better meaning comes up with better behavior, which in-turn indirectly gives a better experience.
This is the principle of Reframing. This is a great way by which an NLP course reframing part helps you train your mind.

When a father complains that his teenage daughter is not listening to him, the experience can be reframed as, the daughter is trying to explore life for herself, and want to stand on her own legs. This could mean that the father has more time for himself, which he can use to invest in his own ventures, while he can still have a watchful eye over his daughter and be available when she needs him.

The employee, who just lost his job, could reframe the experience as an opportunity for trying out his entrepreneurial venture.
When a student gets low marks in an exam, he need not frame it as a failure. Instead, he can reframe it as feedback, and come out with better strategies for studying and getting more marks.

You can remember something which is often being said in Motivational seminars. The only thing really out there is “Situation “.
You can choose to look at it as a Problem, or a Challenge, or an Opportunity. You have the choice and the choice is yours. This is classic Reframing. This is a great way, where NLP can be used to train your mind so that you can choose your responses to your experiences.

I feel that the main purpose of Religion and other Wisdom Practices is to help us give a better meaning to this phenomenon called Life. This is a big chunk reframing.

I will leave you with a question. What is your frame of Life? What is the meaning you give to this Life? If it is working for you and is useful quite ok. If not are you willing to reframe? Hope the NLP Course reframing part has helped you understand the strength of your brain