NLP is considered a powerful tool for personal and professional excellence. This happens because an NLP course helps you train yourMind. NLP courses work at multiple levels to bring powerful transformation. Like behavior, capabilities, values, and beliefs and also at the level of Identify an NLP course can create positive changes.

And all these changes start with the Mind. NLP Courses work by training the mind. For deep thinkers, it can be felt that the world is not outside there. But it is inside our heads. An NLP principle says “ Perception is Projection “. It could also mean “ what the mind cannot see, the eye cannot see”. We tend to see what we want to see. Other things which are not in alignment with our existing beliefs and values, may not be clearly perceived by us.

This concept is called the Psychological filter “Deletion“. Lots of data from the external world called “ Territory “ in NLP terms, stream to us. It is said that about 7 lakhs bits of data / second stream to us. Our brain cannot process all this data. Hence we have 3 psychological filters called Generalization, Deletion, and Distortion. You can get more details about these in the video here :

So, as seen earlier, an NLP course helps you to train your mind. Training your mind to get what you want. Let us break out this in three elemental ways, by which an NLP course can help you train your mind.

These three elements are called ARM of NLP. They are

A – Anchoring

R – Reframing

M- Modelling

Let us see these three elements briefly

Anchoring :

An anchor is an external stimulus that produces consistent mind states. For example, an old black and white photogram of you and your friend can immediately put you in a happy state.

The award that you got, for being the most productive employee,  that you have kept in the showcase, can be a powerful anchor, which immediately makes you feel proud and build your self-esteem.

The Anchor can be a picture, sound, a touch, a smell, and also a taste.

Now the issue is not all anchors are positive in nature, in the sense, they create not positive emotions, but create negative mind states. For example, the name of a particular city, where something untoward happening to you, can remain etched in your memory, and whenever you hear or read the name of the place, you actually start feeling bad.

A person, who happens to receive very bad news, while eating ice cream, can start feeling bad wherever he sees an ice cream.

So, we can understand that Anchors can be all around us, putting us either in positive or negative mindstates. These Anchors happen mostly unconsciously, and we may not be having control over their formation or occurrence.

An NLP course can help you create consciously very powerful Positive Anchors, which you can use at your will to change your mind states from something negative or neutral to something very positively powerful.

An NLP Practitioner is required to create a few anchors for himself/herself for shifting mindstates to positive ones and also help other people create one.

Let us briefly talk about one Anchor, that I normally teach in my NLP Course, “ The Golden Circle of Excellence “

The purpose of this Anchor is to utilize a positive memory from your past, Identify the Resource or the Positive emotion you had at that time, and then access that resource whenever and wherever you want.

So, the requirements are,

1 – A strong positive memory you have that is very fresh and easy to access.

2- Identifying what is the resource or emotion you had at that particular time. For example, the memory where you got the best employee award could be a resource of pride, confidence, or self-esteem. You need to choose one resource with one name for maximum effectiveness. Later you can add many resources to the same anchor or other anchors.

3 – Identify a future situation, where you want to use this resource, easily and effortlessly with maximum effectiveness.

If you have done so, then here is the Procedure.

Golden Circle of Excellence Procedure                                        

• Choose a resource that is needed to handle a current challenge
• Choose a past memory in which the required resource was in abundance
• Put yourself in a mild trance, while being able to maintain a comfortable standing position
• Visualize a golden circle on the floor about one to two feet in diameter
• Step into the circle and access the memory
• Relive the memory in its entirety in VAK ( What you See ( Visual ), What you Hear ( Auditory ) and what you Feel ( Kinesthetic )
• Focus on the feeling and intensify it
• At the peak, leave the emotion inside the circle ( like a pillow cover, being drawn and dropped from a pillow ) and step back
• Break state by observing or counting things in the room
• Repeat the process once more
• Break state by observing or counting things in the room
• The third round is the test round
• After putting yourself in a mild trance state, visualize the golden circle on the floor and step directly into the circle
• Allow the VAK to be accessed
• If the earlier steps had been done effectively, the test round would bring in the required resource automatically, at least to some extent
• As you are accessing the resource future pace and see yourself using the resource in an appropriate situation effectively
• Give permission to your unconscious mind to access the resource at appropriate times.
• If the test round is not effective, the trance depth may not have been adequate, or the person may not be fully involved
• Repeat the activity for few weeks until the anchor becomes set and can be fired inappropriate situations

So, do try this out and check it for yourself. You can also join My NLP Course, and learn it directly from me. You can access my courses on my website.

You can learn the other two elements Reframing and Modelling from my upcoming blogs. Remember NLP courses can help you train your mind, for the better.

NLP Training is the buzzword in personal development circles now. If you are interested in Personal development there is every chance you might have heard about it. And you also wondered about it.

Fast and Miraculous transformations are attributed to NLP Training. You might be thinking about how NLP Training could do this. If that is the case, then this blog can help you understand the NLP phenomena better.

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Each word is specifically significant and represents particular domains.

The word Neuro represents our central nervous system that is made of our brain, spinal cord and associated nerve systems. We process the data from the world around us as “ Experiences “.

And we use language to interpret these experiences to give “ Meaning “ to these experiences – the linguistic part.

And we engage in a series of behaviors based on the Meaning which we give to these experiences. This is the programming part.

Neuro – Experience

Linguistic – Meaning

Programming – Behavior

Very predominantly the behavior depends on the meaning which we give to the experience and not to the experience itself. So if one wants to change the behavior he need not change the experience itself. All he has to do is change the Meaning of the experience and a better behavior will emerge.

The better behavior will indirectly bring him a better experience.

This I believe is the basic philosophy of NLP. NLP is the art and science of changing the “ Meaning “ of experiences.

For changing the meaning NLP uses three principles, called the “ARM” of NLP – Anchoring, Reframing and Modeling. ( I have written about each one these in my other blogs )

Now let us look at the various definitions of NLP :

• NLP is the study of subjective experience.
• NLP is the study of Human Excellence and how it can be duplicated. ( Modeling )
• NLP is the study of the influence of language on our mind and subsequent behavior.
• NLP is the systematic study of human communication.
• NLP is the ability to be your best more often.
• NLP is the powerful and practical approach to personal change.
• NLP is the software for the brain.
• NLP is whatever works.
• NLP is an attitude and methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques.
• NLP is the art and science of excellence.

5 ways how NLP Training can help you:

Get rid of the burdens and baggage of the past :

NLP Training helps you understand that any experience has a structure. And it is possible to make changes in these structures. Once the structure changes the corresponding connection and emotions change.

Memories are relived experiences and they too have a structure. The structure is made of pictures, sounds, and feelings. These are in turn made of bits of pictures, sounds, and feelings which are called “ Sub Modalities “.

Just like a building is made of bricks, the experience is made of sub modalities. NLP Training helps you to work around these sub modalities and create changes in them.

By changing these sub modalities you create a changing experience and BINGO, the experience doesn’t mean the same to you. This is one powerful way to get out negative experiences and their impact on you.

Fixing clear and concrete goals

Which bus will you board when you do not where to go? The first one, the middle one or the last one? Wouldn’t it be better to board a bus after knowing where you want to go or at least where the bus goes. ( Think about the expression of the bus conductor, when he asks you, “ Where to… “ and you reply, “ where does this bus go…?”

NLP Training would want you to start working with outcomes first… Any process begins with setting the outcome… remember “ Begin with the end in mind..”

Because without the outcome the process becomes invalid. So one of the questions that you will frequently get asked in an NLP Training would frequently ( very frequently ) would ask you would be… “ What is that you really want?”

( Actually it is “ What is that you really, really, really want ?” )

And NLP Training would shake you up till things get cleared and settled and you know your “Well formed outcome”.  And when god appears before you and asks you ”

What do you want? “ you will be able to answer, not just “SMART”ly but much more with depth and conviction…

To be Successful easily and also to teach being successful easily

As said earlier, NLP believes success is a Process.

That excellent cake is the OUTCOME of a particular process. Anyone, Yes, anyone who follows the same process will get the same excellent cake.

Stated simply, this means “ Do what works well. You can improve on it later” Instead of reinventing the wheel, with a trial and error process, which could be very tiring, if one can identify, observe, break into small pieces and integrate, what works for a expert, he can get far better results quickly and easily.

An expert’s excellence comes from Environment, Behavior, Capabilities, Beliefs & Values, and Identity. If one can identify, observe, break into small pieces and integrate what works for the individual, then he can expect far better results.

This doesn’t mean the person becomes a Xerox copy of the expert, but picks up what could be useful to him and then innovate to suit his uniqueness and his identity. So, NLP  Training helps you to think about Success as a process, which can be modeled, developed, and taught.

To understand and influence people:

When people around you behave in ways that you did not expect, you might be surprised or shocked. But NLP Training will make you curious in such circumstances and can make you resourceful.

NLP Training helps you understand people operate from their Model of the world and for you to understand them you have to meet them at their Model of the world.

NLP Training will also teach you that “ There is a positive intention behind EVERY behavior”.When you really understand and internalize that, you would be in a position to identify what makes people tick, the intentions behind their behavior and build rapport and take the relationship forward.

And you can believe me when I say “ you would start hating people less and would be able to forgive them more”

To create Transformations easily and comfortably

It is said that NLP Training is more like Martial Arts. I would say it is more like driving a vehicle.

You do not consciously think and apply the brakes or change the gear or accelerate or glide down that gentle curve. If you do so, you and your bike would be more stressed, more worn out, and riding a bike would be hell.

You do martial arts and drive a bike mostly unconsciously. Otherwise, you would be knowing how many times you applied the brakes when you went to pick up that pizza.

Your unconscious is huge and benevolent. Learning to utilize the power and potential of the unconscious in a myriad of ways is also what NLP Training teaches about.

Sweeping and quick changes could be brought about when you can learn to connect, communicate and lead your unconscious mind to better outcomes and behavior.

By learning to “ DEAL “ with the unconscious you can release the brakes that the unconscious has put on and help the struggling “ Conscious “ engine to take you where you want to go with ease and comfort…

These would be the five dominant ways in which NLP Training can help you become Successful and Happy…

To know more about NLP and to apply it effectively in your personal and professional lives, you can attend NLP Course and learning workshops by me

G.Ramasubramanian

Certified NLP Trainer and a Leadership and Business Coach

Ramsnlp

Excel HR

connect@ramsnlp.com

NLP Techniques are an integral part of an NLP Training program. These techniques are the reason why NLP is considered as a quick result approach to human behavior.

NLP Techniques are a series of steps that have to be followed sequentially to get the desired result. Before understanding these techniques, you should know what is NLP.

All our behaviors are results-driven. Behaviors are again a sequence of small action steps. Excellent behaviors create excellent results.

We have seen that NLP is from results to theory. NLP models excellence and decodes a successful human process into its basic elements. These elements are then made teachable and learnable. This is called Modelling and modeling is the core of NLP. NLP Techniques are the result of modeling excellent processes in self or other experts.

NLP Techniques play an important role in Neuro Lingustic Programming, in many ways. Some of the utilities of NLP techniques are,

• Quickly access resources, that could be difficult to access. ( like Confidence, Courage, or Determination )
• Collapse or neutralize Unuseful emotions quickly.
• Change the quality of a past memory.
• Create a compelling future
• Access Trance states
• Work with the Unconscious mind in creating and deciding choices.
• Build rapport and influence
• Increase awareness
• Generate new insights and flash of Ideas.

How do NLP Techniques work? It mostly works on the Body-Mind connection. One of the presuppositions of NLP is “ Body and Mind are part of the same system and they influence each other powerfully”.

I shall describe one NLP technique, called Anchoring, where one ( The Client ) can recreate the desired emotion, at the time he/she wants it. The NLP Trainer or Coach, helps the Client create this Anchor.

We know that an Anchor is a device used in the ship, to make the ship remain in a particular place. Similarly, an Anchor is an external stimulus that creates consistent emotional states, which are positive and useful, like Confidence, Enthusiasm, Determination, and so forth. This concept of Anchoring is an important element in this NLP Technique.

The Client, initially chooses a resource or an emotion, that he/she needs in a particular context in the future, like attending an interview, giving a presentation, or negotiating a deal. Let us say, for example, the Client chooses Confidence.

Then the Client has to choose a memory from the past, in which he/she had this resource or emotion of Confidence in abundance. Maybe it was the moment when he hit the winning run and felt so confident that he can make many more wins like this.

Or it was the moment when she won that best student cup, while she felt that she can easily succeed in life. The selection of these two, namely the emotion and the memory are very important. The more stronger and potent they are, the more effective this NLP Technique is.

Now we will look at the process of this NLP Technique of Anchoring. After choosing the resource or emotion needed and choosing the memory, in which the emotion was abundant, the client can go into a close-eyed trance state ( A NLP Coach can help in the process ). A Trance is a deeply relaxed state where the client is more aware and awake to what is happening within him/her, in terms of internal pictures, sounds, and feeling that is taking place within him/her.

In this deeply relaxed trance state, the client accesses the chosen memory and sees it in his/her mind as though it is happening right now. He/she puts himself/herself right in the Centre of the chosen experience and relives the memory as though it is happening right now.

The focus is on naturally emerging pictures, sounds, and the associated chosen feelings. Then the client can choose to focus on the feeling ( which is the chosen feeling like Confidence, Enthusiasm, Determination) and intensify it. He/she can focus on the feeling, intensify it, expand it, and can also run the feeling throughout the entire body, saturating the entire body with the chosen emotion. This is an important step in this NLP Technique.

And at the peak of feeling the emotion, the client can touch the thumb of his/her right or left hand with any other of the four fingers. ( Like Index and thumb, or middle finger and thumb, or ring finger and thumb or little finger and thumb, whichever is convenient ) and holds it as he/she experiences the strong emotion.

As the feeling starts subsiding, the client breaks the Anchor by removing the fingers touching, before the emotions subside to low levels. That is the fingers must be touching only when the emotions are strong, in and around the peak. This is another important element in this NLP Technique.

Then the client opens his/her eyes and breaks state, like counting mentally a few numbers in reverse order or like counting the number of yellow-colored objects in the room. This is called pattern break and is to ensure, that the process begins from scratch and does not start with residuals of the earlier round.

Now the entire process is repeated one more round as described above. After the pattern break at the end of round two, a test round is done. This is another important element in this NLP Technique.

In the test round, the client simply goes into a relaxed trance state and simply joins the finger and thumb. This is called “ Firing “ the Anchor. Once the Anchor is fired, the client can feel that the chosen memory surging or even flooding him/her, with the corresponding emotion.

This happens because, a Neurological link ( which is called Classical Conditioning in Psychology ) is established and whenever the fingers are joined, the link is triggered and the client can feel the chosen positive emotion surging, automatically with the least effort. This is the intended result of this NLP Technique.

If the desired effort is not felt, the reasons could be that

• The client did not relax deep enough, to access the memory and resource intensely.
• The timing of the anchor is wrong ( The Anchoring should be done in and around peak time of feeling the maximum emotion )
• The anchor is not unique, as already some other emotion could have been unconsciously anchored there.

This NLP Technique process needs to be devoid of these faults for being effective. And also this NLP Technique has to be done few times a day, over a period of 1 to 3 weeks, until the emotions are able to be accessed quickly and intensely when the anchor is fired.

These NLP Techniques may need many repetitions over a few weeks to stabilize into a very strong and dependable anchor. Once it is formed, it becomes a powerful tool, to utilize, whenever and wherever the emotion is required.

Then these NLP Techniques can be done once in a while, to test and retain the effectiveness of the Anchor.

This NLP technique is very effective when aided by an NLP trainer or Coach.

You can learn these NLP Techniques and other NLP techniques for contexts mentioned above, in my NLP Training programs. For more details, you can visit Excel HR, and Ramsnlp or connect with me at connect@ramsnlp.com

Unlocking Your Potential: The Power of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) in Personal Growth

What is NLP?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a powerful approach that focuses on the relationship between mind (neuro), language (linguistic), and behavioral patterns (programming). By understanding and changing these patterns, individuals can improve their mindset, communication skills, and personal effectiveness.

Why NLP Matters for Personal Growth

• Enhanced Communication: NLP offers tools to help you express your thoughts and emotions more clearly. This leads to better relationships, both personally and professionally.
• Improved Mindset: By reframing negative thoughts, NLP can help shift your perspective, enabling you to approach challenges with a positive attitude.
• Boosted Confidence: Techniques such as visualization and anchoring allow you to build confidence and overcome self-doubt.
• Effective Leadership: In a professional setting, NLP tools can enhance your ability to influence and inspire others, making you a more effective leader.

Key NLP Techniques for Personal Development

Incorporating NLP techniques into your daily routine can significantly impact your growth journey. Here are some practical methods:

1. Anchoring

This technique involves creating a mental association between a specific stimulus (like a word or gesture) and a feeling or state of mind. For example, if you want to feel more confident during presentations, you might use a certain gesture that you’ve associated with confidence. Over time, this gesture will trigger that feeling automatically.

2. Reframing

Reframing is about changing your perspective on a situation. For example, if you view a failure as a setback, try to reframe it as a learning opportunity that brings you one step closer to success. This shift in mindset can empower you to tackle challenges with resilience.

3. Visualization

Visualization involves creating a mental image of your desired outcome. Take a few moments each day to visualize achieving your goals, whether it’s acing a job interview or successfully completing a project. This practice can increase your motivation and align your actions with your aspirations.

4. Rapport Building

Creating rapport with others is essential for effective communication. You can build rapport by mirroring body language, tone, and speech patterns. This technique helps establish a connection and fosters understanding in both personal and professional settings.

Applying NLP in Everyday Life

Integrating NLP into your everyday activities can lead to substantial improvement in various aspects of life. Here are some tips for applying these techniques:

• Practice Mindfulness: Being aware of your thoughts and feelings can help you identify which patterns to change or reinforce.
• Set Clear Goals: Use the SMART goal framework (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) to guide your path.
• Seek Constructive Feedback: Use feedback to refine your techniques and ensure continuous growth.

Conclusion

Neuro-Linguistic Programming offers valuable tools for personal growth and development. By applying techniques like anchoring, reframing, visualization, and rapport building, you can unlock your potential and foster meaningful changes in your life. Whether you aim to enhance your communication, boost your confidence, or improve your leadership skills, NLP can be a transformative ally in your journey toward personal excellence.