NLP Life Coaching
67NLP stands for neuro-linguistic programming and was developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, a linguist. The premise behind the very impressive sounding process was to use it as psychotherapy to address a variety of mental health issues including phobias, learning disorders, depression, psychosomatic illnesses and more. So let's talk a little bit more about nlp life coaching.
The definition of neuro-linguistic programming is that it is a model of communication that seeks to explore the connection between successful patterns of behavior and the underlying subjective experiences a person exhibits. Another definition is that NLP is an alternative or holistic therapy which can help people realize their modes of communication and use their increased self awareness to modify their patterns of emotional and physical behavior to their benefit.
The two founders, Bandler and Grinder, made claims that their therapy could lead anyone into leading richer more fulfilling lives. Their claims were supposedly based on extensive studies of successful people in a variety of ways of life and then developing therapies to modify your thinking and speaking methods to model these successful people and therefore radically alter your life.
Through their proprietary teachings they espoused that the programming would work for anyone in any situation. Because there has been little scientific evidence that the therapy actually works, it now gets very little attention from main stream psychotherapy.
In the alternative and holistic health sectors however, NLP is thriving. There are hundreds of sites around the world offering training in NLP. NLP.com is a site run by The Empowerment Group (formerly known as advanced neuro dynamics) in Hawaii. You can take an Online Certification Course for NLP accredited by the Distance Learning and Training Council (DLTC).
At NLP.com not only can you be certified in NLP, but also in Time Empowerment Techniques, Hypnosis and the ancient Hawaiian Huna training to maximize your mind’s power over your life? You can find tools to help you succeed in school, business, communication, coaching and sports.
Neurolinguisticprogramming.com is run by one of the original founders of NLP, Richard Bandler. The site really doesn’t say much you can understand on the home page. It mentions that techniques become easily outdated and therefore you do not need prerequisites for any of Dr. Bandler’s courses.
Additionally, you can take a particular course over and over as the material will never be the same. However, Dr. Bandler does offer a certified practitioner course so I do not see the benefit in taking that course more than the first time.
Dr. Bandler has simplified the definition of neuro-linguistic programming to the study of subjective behaviors and what you can calculate from them. All of his techniques are designed to be folded into a NLP life coaching perspective.
Dr. Bandler insists that NLP is not a therapy but an educational tool. This goes towards the philosophy that you can have a NLP life coaching experience without having problems to have therapy for.
Some presuppositions that are inherent in NLP are that any subjective experiences and distinctions can be made in reference to our five senses. A central supporting statement is that the resources anyone needs to affect change are already within the individual.
There is a positive feedback for any behavior and finding that positive feedback for even negative behaviors is the first step in making a change away from that negative behavior.
Dr. Richard Bandler offers a range of seminars on wide ranging topics like Neuro-Hypnotic Repatterning, Design Human Engineering, Persuasion Engineering, Personal Enhancement, Charisma Enhancement, Hypnosis and others. He has written several books, all available on his website, including one called “Get the Life You Want” and “Trance-Formation”.
He also endorses a product called the Hasten Mindspa. It is touted as the most stress reducing gadget on the market today. A news show called “The Gadget Show”, sponsored by PC World has called the Hasten Mindspa.
Retailing on Dr. Bandler’s website for $995 it is a digital audio player that uses specially encoded audio programs and precisely tuned light and color frequencies tuned to specific brainwave functions. These programs will promote mental sharpness and deep relaxation.
The system will produce results with regular use in twenty to forty minutes a day. You can use it in alpha/theta mode for calmness and relaxation or in beta mode for cognitive stimulus and better attention span.
