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If you are like most people you have probably heard at least a little bit about “NLP” but you may still be wondering exactly what it is and how it came about.
Simply put, Neuro Linguistic Programming is the study of excellence. It began in the 1970′s when students at the University of California Santa Cruz started modeling a few individuals who were getting phenomenal results.
One of the original people that was modeled was Milton H. Erickson. Milton H. Erickson was a hypnotist and is widely regraded as being on of the best hypnotists of all times. In fact, he pioneered what is now referred to as “conversational hypnosis.” Essentially what this means is that instead of giving
the old “you’re getting sleepy…” talk, he would just tell his clients a story.
And… before the clients knew it they were walking out of Milton’s office scratching their head and not really knowing why a strange old man had told them a story about a tomato plant or cactus or
whatever.
The interesting thing was that these clients really did get incredible changes almost instantly! So, what the pioneers of NLP did was to work very closely with Milton and really find out exactly what he was doing to get such powerful shifts in people.
What they found was that he had created patterns in his language. Now, Milton just did this unconsciously so it really took someone to model him closely to figure out exactly what was going on so that it could be taught to others.
This modeling process is really how NLP came about. And once you learn NLP more in depth you will discover that it is actually a simple process to sit down and model someone’s behavior. I mean, imagine being able to sit down with a great basketball player to develop an awesome 3-point shot. Or to be able to have a conversation with an excellent musician and be able to cut your learning time to just 1/3 of what it would normally take.
That is the power of modeling with NLP!
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