What is NLP?

NLP is the science and methodology for understanding and changing human behaviour

NLP is the study of your subjective reality, or to put it more simply, how your brain makes you behave and feel the way you do. Imagine your brain is like a computer that has been programmed with software and hardware that you didn’t know about, and no-one has left you a users guide! NLP is the user guide for your brain.

NLP believes that most of our behavior is learnt, for example you don’t see small babies with phobias of flying or self esteem issues. We learn our behaviour from our experiences and the people around us as we grow up, and this programs our brain to perceive things and to react to the world in a certain way. NLP allows you to understand what these programs are, and then reprogram them. because our behaviour is learnt, we are able to unlearn it!

NLP is concerned with how we do something not the why (that’s for psychoanalysis).

How does it work?

Very simply:

• Your brain stores all it’s experiences as pictures, sounds and feelings, if you change how brain recognizes these experiences you can change how you respond to them.
• Your brain doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what happens in your head
• Your imagination is always more powerful than your will power
  Everyone has their own view of the world

What can you use it for?

Simply to change the way you feel and therefore behave.

NLP provides us with choice; choice in what we feel, think, do, and therefore ultimately in what we achieve. It has transformed what is possible in the ways in which we can communicate, influence, manage and achieve whatever you really want.

NLP can help if you want to:

• Feel more motivated, more positive, more focused.
• Manage your emotions - so that you can be influential, more resourceful, proactive, and in control.
• Increase self esteem, confidence and energy.
• Do whatever you already do reasonably well, even better
• Feel more positive and spend more of your life being happy
• Also NLP has techniques to cure phobias in as little as one hour, phobias that traditional psychotherapy would take weeks or months to solve.

Further Reading

You may also be interested in the following resources:

- The Stop Smoking Video
- Smoking Related Websites
- Testimonials From Ex-Smokers
- 599 Chemical Additives in Tobacco
- Brainwave Entrainment
- What's really in a cigarette?
- Smoking Ban reduces cadmium
- Studies comparing Hypnosis with or NRT
- What is NLP?
- Phobias
- Denial
- If You Could Spend a Day With Me...
- The benefits of stopping smoking?
- What makes nicotine addictive?
- Nicotine and more...
- Smoking: The Facts
- What makes Nicotine Addictive?