My name is Alan Jones, I’m an NLP Trainer and a Hypntherapy Trainer and I have sent up this blog so more people can find out more about NLP and Hypnotherapy and find out how they can help you become better in whatever way would be useful to you. NLP 4 Everyone’s mission is: “To open the World of Neuro Linguistic Programming to Everyone. Adults, Teenagers, Young People, Teachers, students in fact for everyone who is interested to find out more about how we as humans function and make meaning of our world regardless of faith, creed, colour, sex, age or sexual orientation.” We are all humans making the best decisions we can with the information available to us which includes our experiences.
No One has THE TRUTH, there are lots of truths. All we can ever have is our opinion and that is based on what we have read, seen, heard or experienced and this is all any of us have. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine and any other contributor, and that is all they are, opinions. If you find something useful in this blog then please feel free to use it, explore it and play with it. Or if you find it not useful to you, discard it. My opinion is no more valid than yours and yours no more valid than mine. If either one of us changes our opinion because of something the other does or says, then we are up dating our model of what we each call our reality. No two people will ever see the same thing, the only way we could is to both see through the same eyes. We could agree on, say a shade of colour and both of us will have our own experience of that colour. Our reality is as unique to us as our DNA and finger prints.
NLP has been called the study of subjective experience. Put simply it is the study of how, we as humans, do what we do and know what we know. Just for a minute think of something you like to eat, take a moment to bring this to mind. Now think of something you don’t like to eat or even hate to eat, take a moment to bring this to mind. Now ask yourself the question, from however you brought the two items to mind, how did you know which is the one you like and which is the one you don’t like? Chances are that they are pictures, though they don’t have to be, and that these pictures are in some way different. For example one picture may be in colour or one is more in focus or more likely they are in different locations in space. One picture may be nearer to you or one you see to the left and the other to the right, or one is up and the other is down. Whatever the difference is, this difference is right for you. Now some people will have a feeling that goes with the pictures or they know if they like or dislike something when they bring it to mind by they way they feel about it and that’s fine too. And other people will hear a sound in their mind that lets them know if they like something or not. Any way you know what you do and do not like to eat is right and perfect for you.
The point is you do know which is which, and they way you know it is how you have coded past experiences of eating in your memory, this lets you know if you do or do not like something. Think about it for a moment, if you did not have a way of coding your likes and dislikes, each morning when you woke up you would not know if you did or didn’t like tea or coffee or juice until you tried it again. Your ability to code experiences and remember this code is part of your wonderful make-up as a human being. You learn quickly and easily and often in just one try of something. The downside to this is that can sometimes act in the world from the coding we have of our experiences and not on the world as it happens in the moment. Let me give you and example. Supposes, when young, you ate an olive that was bad and decided you didn’t like olives; a reasonable coding given your experience. Now as an adult someone offers you an olive, you immediate respond with “No thanks, I don’t like olives.” Here you are acting upon your coded memory rather than current experience. Now I’m not advocating that you go out and recheck every thing you decided you didn’t like, unless of course you want to check. The point is that we make thousands of decisions based upon our experiences, with people and things, which we code, call beliefs and operate from.
What I am suggesting is that you become more aware of the decisions you made about things and ask yourself this simple question, “Is this belief useful to me or not?” or “Where does this belief come from and do I want to keep it or change it?” The coding we do of our experiences is the linguistics part of the Neuro Linguistic Programming, though it includes more than words. It includes pictures, sounds, feelings, smells and tastes. Our five senses, or the way we make sense of our world is through our five senses, it could not not be, could it? If you are wondering where NLP and Hypnotherapy can be used, the only reply I can give is “You are only limited by your imagination as to how and where you can use them and your imagination is limitless, isn’t it?” If you have questions or comments please send them in; if you hold strong beliefs, please remember that others may hold equally strong beliefs that are in opposition to your own and respect that everyone has a right to choose what they believe. If anyone is looking for NLP training I can only recommend training organisations I have had direct experience of, Talisman Training and Empowerment Trainings in London and Southern England and Communicating Excellence, Integrity NLP and NLP northeast in the Northeast and Newcastle area. If anyone would like details please contact me. Future posts with include exercises and things for you to play with and above all have fun.
