NLP today is one of the most popular areas of existing applied psychology. The scope of its application is very extensive: psychotherapy, medicine, marketing, political and managerial consulting, pedagogy, business, advertising.
Unlike most other practically oriented psychological disciplines, NLP provides operational changes, solving problems of both an individual person and society as a whole. Moreover, everything is carried out in an unconditional effective environmental regime.
Introduction to Neuro-Linguistic Programming
It is worth starting with the fact that NLP is a kind of art, a science of excellence, the result of a study of the achievements of outstanding people in various fields of activity. The positive point is that absolutely everyone can master such communicative skills. All you need is a desire to increase your professional personal effectiveness.
Neuro-linguistic programming: what is it?
There are various models of excellence built by NLP in the fields of communication, education, business, and therapy. Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a specific model of structuring by individual people of their unique life experience. We can say that this is only one of the many ways of understanding, organizing the most complex, but unique system of communication and human thoughts.
NLP: a history of occurrence
It appeared in the early 70s, was the result of the collaboration of D. Grinder (at that time an assistant professor of linguistics at the University of California at Santa Cruz) and R. Bandler (also a student of psychology), who was very passionate about psychotherapy. Together, they investigated the activities of 3 great psychotherapists: V. Satir (family therapist, she took on cases that other experts considered hopeless), F. Perls (innovator of psychotherapy, founder of the school of gestalt therapy), M. Erickson (world famous hypnotherapist) .
Grinder and Bandler disclosed the patterns (patterns) used by the above psychotherapists, deciphered them, subsequently built a rather elegant model that can be used both in effective communication, in personal change, and within the framework of accelerated learning, and even for more life pleasure.
Richard and John in those days lived near G. Bateson (English anthropologist). He was the author of works on the theory of systems and communication. His research interests were very extensive: cybernetics, psychotherapy, biology, anthropology. For many, he is known for his theory of the second connection in schizophrenia. Bateson's contribution to NLP is unusually large.
NLP has evolved in two complementary directions: as a process of identifying patterns of mastery in all areas of human life and as a fairly effective way of communication and thinking that is practiced by prominent people.
In 1977, Grinder and Bandler conducted a series of successful public workshops across America. This art is spreading rapidly, and statistical data confirm that approximately 100 thousand people have been trained in one form or another to date.
The origin of the name of the science in question
Neuro-linguistic programming: what is it based on the meaning of the words included in this term? The word "neuro" refers to the fundamental idea that human behavior originates in such neurological processes as vision, perception of taste and smell, touch, listening, sensation. The mind and body form an inseparable unity - the being of man.
The “linguistic” component of the name demonstrates the use of language in order to organize your thoughts, your behavior for the possibility of entering into communication with other people.
"Programming" implies an indication of how a person organizes his actions, ideas in order to obtain the desired result.
NLP Basics: Maps, Filters, Frames
All people use the senses in order to perceive the surrounding world, its study, transformation. The world is an endless variety of sensory manifestations, but people can only perceive its meager part. The information received is subsequently filtered by unique experience, language, values, assumptions, culture, beliefs, interests. Each person lives in a unique reality, which is built from purely personal sensory impressions, individual experiences. His actions are based on what he perceives - on a personal model of the world.
The world around is so large-scale, rich that people are forced to simplify it in order to comprehend. A good example of this is the creation of maps. They are selective: they carry information and simultaneously miss it, but nevertheless they act as an incomparable assistant in the process of exploring the territory. The fact that a person knows where he seeks to get depends on what kind of map he makes.
People are equipped with numerous natural, necessary, useful filters. Language is a filter, a map of the thoughts of a specific person, his experiences, which is separated from the real world.
The basics of neuro-linguistic programming are a behavioral framework. This is an understanding of human action. So, the first frame is focus on the result, and not on a specific problem. This means that the subject searches for what to strive for, then finds suitable solutions, and subsequently applies them to achieve the goal. The focus on the problem is most often called the "frame of accusation." It consists in a deep analysis of the existing causes of the impossibility of achieving the desired result.
The next frame (second) is to ask precisely the question “how?”, And not “why?”. It will lead the subject to an awareness of the structure of the problem.
The essence of the third framework is feedback instead of failure. There is no such thing as failure, there are only results. The first is a way to describe the second. Feedback holds the target in sight.
Considering opportunity rather than necessity is the fourth frame. Focus should be on possible actions, and not on existing circumstances that limit a person.
NLP also welcomes curiosity, surprise instead of pretense. At first glance, this is a fairly simple idea, but it has very profound consequences.
Another useful idea is the possibility of creating internal resources that a person needs to achieve his goal. To succeed will help rather faith in the correctness of the action than the assumption of the opposite. This is nothing but neurolinguistic programming. What it is has already become clear, so it’s worth moving on to considering its methods and techniques.
NLP Methods
These are the main theoretical, practical aspects of using neuro-linguistic programming. These include:
- anchoring;
- submodal editing;
- swing methods;
- work with obsessive, problematic, phobic states.
These are the main methods of neurolinguistic programming.
Change in event perception
This is one of the exercises using the simplest neurolinguistic programming technique. For example, jealousy. It proceeds in 3 successive stages: visualization (presentation of the scene of treason), then audioization (presentation of the soundtrack of the scene of treason) and at the end - kinesthetic perception (the appearance of a negative sense of betrayal).
The essence of this technique is a violation of one of the stages. In this example, it can be a belief in the far-fetchedness of the betrayal scene at the first stage, at the second - its presentation accompanied by funny music, which leads to a change in the perception of the whole picture as a whole at the third stage (it becomes funny). This is how neuro-linguistic programming is activated. Examples can be given the most diverse: imaginary disease, the power of photographic memory, etc.
Pedagogy as a field of application of NLP
As mentioned earlier, there are a large number of areas where neuro-linguistic programming is used. Training can also take place using methods of NLP techniques.
Scientists say that through neuro-linguistic programming, a significant part of school material can be mastered much faster, more efficiently without the formation of school phobias, mainly due to the development of student abilities. With all this, this process is very exciting. This applies to any teaching activity.
The school has its own unique culture, which is formed from several subcultures having their own patterns of the learning process, non-verbal communication.
Due to the fact that school educational levels are differentiated, each of them generates its own patterns of effective learning styles. These levels are grouped into categories:
1. Elementary school . At the age of 6, children leave the walls of the kindergarten and enter the 1st grade as the so-called kinesthetic creature. Teachers know that children perceive the real world through touch, smell, taste, etc. In elementary school, it is a typical practice to go through procedures - kinesthetic learning.
2. High school. Starting from the 3rd grade, adjustments are made to the learning process: the transition from kinesthetic perception to audio. Children who are difficult to adapt to this transition are left to finish their studies or transferred to special classes.
3. High school students. The next transition is being made from auditory perception to visual. The presentation of school material is becoming more symbolic, abstract, graphic.
These are the basics of neuro-linguistic programming.
Corridor and conveyor
The first concept is the place where the development of the student’s lagging modality takes place. In a different way, the corridor focuses on the process, and the conveyor focuses on the content.
When focusing on the latter, the teacher should apply neuro-linguistic programming: training through multisensory techniques in order to provide the opportunity for each individual student to choose the process familiar to him. However, as a rule, the “conveyor” teacher builds the learning process in the first modality, while the “corridor” teacher will need to choose an individual approach to each student (corridor). Thus, the ability to establish an appropriate learning style is the basis of success.
The use of NLP in sects
There are also areas of life where neuro-linguistic programming acts as a lever of negative manipulation. There are various examples. Most often these are sects.
Alexander Kapkov (sectologist) believes that at one time classified methods of neuro-linguistic programming were often used in various kinds of religious groups, for example, in the Ron Hubbard sect. They are very effective for quick and effective zombies of adherents (they allow you to manipulate your personality). The effects of psychotechnics in sects give out for the condescension of grace.
The article described what neuro-linguistic programming is (what it is, what methods and techniques it uses), as well as examples of its practical application.