It has been said many times that NLP is the greatest model of communication ever invented. In this article I’ll explain this a little bit, and give you some direction that can help you further in your exploration of NLP.
First of all, what exactly is NLP? It has been said that NLP is a model of excellence. OK, what exactly does that mean? Well, NLP was created by watching people who are the very best at what they do. And since the first people that were modeled were therapists, that used their words, NLP can be considered a model of excellence in communication.
One of the first people that were modeled with NLP was Milton Erickson. He created a whole new form of hypnosis called covert, or conversational hypnosis. Before Dr. Erickson, if you wanted to be hypnotized, you had to watch a watch swinging back and forth and listen to some creepy guy telling you that you were getting sleepy. Erickson changed all that. He told people stories that often made no sense at the time, but had powerful lasting effects.
A whole collection of communication strategies was developed from Milton Erickson, and is referred today as the Milton Model. There are plenty of resources online if you’d like to learn more. The most popular applications of the Milton Model are therapy, sales, and believe it or not, seduction.
Other experts in the field have described NLP as the objective description of the subjective experience. Everybody sees and responds differently to the same situation. If you have a less that resourceful response, you can use NLP to change it. For example, if you break down into sobbing terror whenever you see a pigeon, you can easily use NLP to change your response.
The best use of NLP is it’s ability to model any skill in any person so that you can develop it in yourself. If you want to be a good golfer, you an model Tiger Woods. If you want to be a great musician, you can model Beethoven. They don’t even have to be alive. Once you learn how to model the excellence you see in others, the sky is the limit to your unlimited potential.
If you want to discover the most powerful Persuasion Techniques, have a look at George Hutton’s NLP Persuasion page.
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