3 NLP Techniques You Can Use Right Now
NLP – or neuro linguistic programming to give it its full name – claims to be able to do a lot of different things. It often crops up with reading another person’s body language but it has a lot more uses as well. Here are some easy to learn NLP techniques that anyone can use.
Changing your feelings
We all get feelings. Sometimes they’re good, other times less good and yet other times they’re downright mean and nasty – often to ourselves as much as the people around us (after all, they can walk away from us whereas we can’t).
One simple trick to change your feelings is to get rid of the feeling of attachment. Quite often we cling desperately to our feelings, even though deep down we know we shouldn’t.
If you’ve ever been somewhere but felt as though you were just an outside observer, watching the whole event including yourself as a participant, you’ve already done this even though you likely didn’t know it was an NLP technique.
In your mind’s eye, step back and take in the whole scene as though it was on a movie screen. This makes it easier to disassociate yourself (that’s the technical term for this technique) and lets you change the way you feel about the situation. Give it a try first on something where the outcome doesn’t matter and then work your way up.
Future pacing
This is the way that you turn your dreams into reality. Start by deciding what it is you want to have achieved and give that achievement an actual date rather than a wishy washy “some time in the future” kind of date.
Then flesh out the detail of the achievement. See what you’ll see, hear what you’ll hear, get a handle on that gut instinct that will tell you that it’s happened. Make this as detailed and intense as possible.
Then set some milestones along the way. Things that you’ll know instinctively will show that you’re on course for your final achievement. Set a firm date for these as well and make these milestones equally vivid and detailed.
Imagine yourself in each of these future points in time and feel inner glow and feeling of satisfaction that you’ll feel when you reach each point. If you like, mark the dates on your calendar to make them more “real” and cross them off when you achieve each position.
Model it
This is kind of where NLP has its roots.
The founders of NLP figured that if there was a choice of who to model, it was far better to use someone who’d achieved what you wanted to achieve than someone who’d failed.
So if you want to quit smoking, find a former smoker to model rather than someone whose arms are buried beneath half an acre of patches and who reaches for the nicotine gum every five minutes.
If you don’t know where to find these people to model, have a search on the web or put up a classified ad on something like Craigs List or put a non-spammy post on a relevant online forum.
Have fun with these simple NLP techniques!
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