NLP Theories

NLPS HIDDEN THEORIES
The basic NLP presuppositions expresses some of the central ideas that
govern the eld of
NLP. Not only is NLP built upon these presuppositions, but out of them
come the impactful
techniques that allow people more choice and exibility in their responses.
Whether these
presuppositions are "true" in any ultimate sense is not the issue. We utilize
them simply
because we've found them useful and enhancing as beliefs which enable us
to do things. (See
Users, Ch. 4, pp. 61-84)
1. There is no failure; there is only feedback.
Whatever response you get from someone is simply feedback from them,
from their
meta-programs for attending to data, from their perceptual grids for
processing
information and from their internal world of meaning (their model of the
world). In
other words, it's their stu; not yours. You haven't "failed," you've just found
out
what does not work.
2. We all respond according to our map of reality, not reality itself.
In using our maps for navigating the world, we have no other than choice
but to refer
to them and use them to move through life. Others respond to us, not for
what we are,
but for what and how they think about us (from their maps).
3. The map is not the territory.
This classic statement from Alfred Korzybski in Science and Sanity (1933)
establishes
the foundational structure of NLP and the epistemology upon which NLP is
founded,
Constructionism.
4. The response you get is the meaning of your communication.
We never know what we communicate to another person since we never
know what
they hear or sense or perceive so that it is in the exploring of their response
that you
can get an idea of what must have gotten communicated. Communication
involves a
lot more than talking, it also involves sensory acuity and awareness
(attentive
listening). Successful communicators accept and then utilize all responses
oered
them.
5. In any connected system, the element with the widest range of variability
will always be
the dominate inuence.
This "law of requisite variety" from the eld of cybernetics identies the
value and
power of exibility as a success mechanism.
6. People are not broken; they work perfectly well.
Or, every experience or behavior represents an achievement. The
personality
mechanisms in people that consistently and systematically operate to do
things. Often
the problem is the content of what we're putting through these processes;
not the
process itself. All behavior is therefore geared toward adaptation and is
purposeful.
2012 META-NLP
-12L. Michael Hall, Ph.D7. People have the resources they need to respond to
the world. They only need to access,
strengthen, and sequence those resources into eective strategies.
Since people aren't broken, the diculty must be that they have diculty
accessing
their resources to more eectively deal with the things they must deal with.
What
people may not have are the methods for nding, eliciting, accessing,
anchoring, and
ring o their resources.
8. We can model excellence by breaking tasks and skills into small chunks to
express and
replicate the Strategy of the performance.
We can replicate genius only after we have specied the strategy.
9. Mind-body are part of the same system and inuence each other.
We hyphenate neuro-linguistics to map the mind-body connection and that
they
work circularly, each inuencing the other.
10. Its better to have choice, than the lack of choice.
In changing things, having a sene of choice is one of the most power things
we can add
to our lives and the lives of others. Adding choices reects a meta-choice.
11. Neuro-linguistic states are created by, and composed of, internal
representations and
physiology.
Any and every person's state of consciousness, at any given moment in time,
is a result
of the thousands and millions of stimuli that the brain (and thus nervous
system)
receives from the representations we entertain in our minds in terms of

visual, auditory,
kinesthetic, olfactory and gustatory stimuli. It also results from the millions
of stimuli
received from our physiology the way we hold our body, move, breathe,
etc.
12. When calibrating someones reality, the highest information will be
behavior.
This includes a persons eye accessing cues, breathing, etc.
13. The fact that we use the same neurological circuits when we remember
or imagine, we
can use these to create new programs, skills, ways of thinking, and
behaviors.
The use of the As if . . . frame (imagination) and the Remember when . . .
frame
gives us the ability to learn from the past and build anticipations for the
future.
14. Separate Person from Behavior. People are more than their actions,
words, emotions,
roles, etc.
Behavior includes the larger macro-activities and the micro-behaviors of
thinking
and emoting.
15. Every behavior/ experience has a positive intent.
Similarly, people get organized (structured) inside to accomplish things.
Sometimes
these purposes cease to be useful, outlive their usefulness, or can be
accomplished in
more elegant and eective ways. Yet behind every behavior is some positive
intent.
Finding it allows you to gracefully help a person reorganize themselves.

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