Thursday, February 12, 2009

Why NLP is so effective

By Ethan Beh

There are many people in the world who can attest to the effectiveness of neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). So what is it about NLP that makes it able to cure phobias, break habits, develop confidence and change your internal state in such a short period of time?

To understand how NLP works, we must first know about our subconscious mind. In all of us there is a conscious and subconscious mind. While the conscious mind does all the logical thinking, reasoning and analysis, the subconscious mind controls our emotions, beliefs, habits and creativity.

Because our subconscious mind contains our beliefs, habits, fears and emotions, it literally controls our life. What we think, how we act, and what we do are all the result of the influence of our beliefs, habits and fears " that means whatever that is inside your subconscious.

We cannot consciously decide or dictate what goes into our subconscious mind, which is why we cannot deliberately choose which beliefs, fears or habits to have. Rather it is our past experiences, references and interpretations of events that goes into our subconscious and subsequently creates those beliefs/habits/fears.

Here's the thing, before any thoughts, beliefs or habits get embedded into the subconscious, our conscious mind will first filter what goes into the subconscious. All thoughts and ideas will be analyzed based on references, past experiences and logic to provide us with a structure of reality and help us live our daily lives.

Although the filter by the conscious mind is meant to be a survival tool which simplifies the way we live our daily lives, it also brings many limitations along with it. Due to its logical and analytical nature, many people end up developing limiting beliefs because of the conscious mind filter. For example, any past experiences of failures would be interpreted by the conscious mind as inherent weaknesses or inability.

The ideal situation is to have a conscious filter that functions properly and can help us go through our daily lives, but yet still let us deliberately control what goes through the filter or not. This is how NLP is able to help us.

How NLP works is it bypasses this filter of the conscious mind. NLP allows any message, suggestion, idea or belief to go directly into the subconscious mind. This is very important because it avoids all the limitations imposed by the conscious mind and allows us to reach our full potential. This is also the main reason why NLP can bring results almost instantaneously.

The feeling I get when using NLP is that I am no longer communicating to my brain in a language it cannot understand. Rather, it is like I now have a users manual that teaches me how to operate and communicate with my brain. Find out more about NLP if you wish to extract your maximum potential.

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