Neuro Linguistic
Programming (NLP)

NLP Gold Coast

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of what actually works in thinking, language and behaviour. It is a way of coding and reproducing excellence that enables people to consistently achieve the results that they want.

NLP demonstrates how through using our senses, we are only able to perceive a small part of the world. Our view of the world is filtered by our biology, experience, beliefs, values and assumptions. We act and feel based on our perception of the world, rather than the real world. Neuro Linguistic Programming refers to each individual’s perception of the world as their ‘internal map’. NLP shows how our mind-body (neuro) and what we say (linguistic), interact together to form our perceptions of the world, or internal maps (programming). Each person’s internal map of the world determines their feelings and behaviours.

As an approach to personal development or therapy, NLP involves understanding that people create their own internal map of the world.  By, recognising unhelpful or destructive patterns of thinking – based on impoverished maps of the world, then modifying or replacing these patterns with more useful or helpful ones. NLP demonstrates that a person can develop successful habits by amplifying helpful behaviours and diminishing negative ones. It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviours, as you desire. Neuro Linguistic Programming gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states of well-being. It’s about realising that we do have more choices than we think we do! Using visualisations, linguistic tools and communication techniques that speak directly to the unconscious mind; we are able to “re-wire” or “re-program” the mind.  As a result, leaving you in more control of your behaviours and thought, not the other way around!

Limiting beliefs and behaviours hold us back from experiencing life in all its fullness. Sometimes it feels like we’ve tried everything and so we resign ourselves to the circumstances and continue our internal struggle.

Neuro Linguistic Programming & Habits

Habits in our thinking and behaviour are nothing more than pre-conditioned ways of responding to certain situations. NLP is a process of modelling the conscious and unconscious habits or patterns that are unique to all of us, in such a way that we are continuously moving towards improved potential. We run our lives by strategies, in a similar way that a computer uses a program to achieve a specific result. By understanding the strategies by which we run our lives, we can then choose to do more of the same and keep getting the same outcomes. Or choose to change our strategies to enhance our potential and individual excellence. Success comes from within, and our success depends on our ability to be excellent in everything we think, say and do. NLP provides us with ways to achieve this through numerous techniques and processes.

“What we see and hear is what we think about. What we think about is what we feel. What we feel influences our reactions. Reactions become habits and it is our habits that determine our destiny”  Bob Gass