NLP: An Ally Of Your Personal And Professional Life
Neurolinguistic Programming, when it was created and born at the level of coaching, seems to be a subject only of use and interest for professionals in those fields, but the reality is that what it is and teaches is applicable to everyone in all areas of life
Because… Who wouldn’t like to communicate better with others? Or be able to put an end to a sabotaging internal dialogue? Or get them to pay attention to you when you speak? Or knowing how to manage undesirable reactions to certain circumstances? In almost everything that involves words, thoughts, emotions and behaviors, NLP can help.
Neurolinguistic Programming is a set of methods and techniques that allow you to manage and change the states and behaviors of a person so that they have the possibility of choice which, consequently, will make them feel freer.
It is often said that NLP is like the “nuclear physics of the mind” or the way to decipher the map of our brain, since it helps to understand the complex system of configuration of thoughts, emotions, ways of communicating and behaving Once the relationships in this system are understood, possibilities and options open up in the person where previously there was probably only blockage, anger or anxiety.
By being able to understand this mental framework that influences so much in all aspects of life, it gives the individual the option to better manage themselves at all levels, providing balance and inner peace.
Direct benefits that NLP provides that help you in your personal and professional life
Although in the previous section we have mentioned in a general way what NLP can do for those who study and know it, here we leave you 4 more concise benefits or advantages that knowing the tools of Neurolinguistic Programming implies.
1. Improve communication
Neurolinguistic Programming provides tools and techniques that allow for better communication with oneself, since it promotes create less self-sabotaging internal dialogue by understanding how our way of thinking and speaking is structured
But NLP also greatly improves interpersonal relationships. Knowing the representation systems or one of the essential foundations of Neurolinguistic Programming, such as calibration and rapport, offers a broader vision of the other interlocutor, giving rise to more fluid dialogues.
As if that were not enough, NLP helps at another communicative level more linked to the workplace: in exhibitions, talks and presentations. Everything learned at the level of interpersonal relationships is key to communicating better and connecting with listeners; and with specific tools like anchors, the fear of public speaking that many have can be controlled forever.
2. Self-knowledge and confidence
NLP, by allowing you to decipher the map of the brain, opens a door to deeper self-knowledge, to understanding why we think how we think, why we express ourselves in this or that way and why, in accordance with all this, we act as we do And, best of all, it gives options to make changes.
This self-knowledge also leads to deciphering the “hidden” resources or skills that each person has to face day-to-day life with more confidence, which provides greater self-confidence, something crucial for much more effective performance both in both personally and professionally.
From the moment we are born we internalize beliefs that we end up considering absolute truths and, in many cases, they are statements that They prevent us from advancing and developing as people (I’m not good for that position, it’s impossible for me to get that, etc.). NLP helps to discover what are those limiting beliefs that we do not know are holding us back and gives the possibility of changing them to turn them into empowering ones.
On the other hand, NLP does not cure phobias as such, but it does have some techniques that allow the individual to manage their thoughts and emotions in the face of certain irrational fears (fear of a spider, of traveling by plane, etc.) so that they can face little by little to them without them limiting him in his life.
4. Control emotions and actions
As we have already said several times throughout this article, NLP works deeply with the relationship between thoughts, emotions and actions In this sense, it is a tremendously effective tool to identify emotions and emotional states (here it is closely linked to Emotional Intelligence), understand them and, especially, learn to welcome them.
Thanks to some tools such as the so-called “6 steps to freedom”, impulsive people, those who, as they say, react to certain situations disproportionately, and then feel bad, can learn to modify those reactions, not by rejecting or hiding their emotions, but knowing how to identify when they occur, why they occur and consciously stopping the behavior they generate.
Learning NLP requires studying its theoretical bases and foundations and a lot of practice to assimilate, little by little, all its powerful techniques. In D’Arte Human And Business School We are experts in the three levels of NLP training that guarantee precise and phased learning of Neurolinguistic Programming: Practitioner, Master and Trainer. In addition, we have among the trainers one of the co-creators of this methodology, Frank Pucelik, a strong defender and disseminator of the original NLP which, of course, is taught in school.
