Weightloss With NLP

Author: Karen Hastings, Hertfordshire

NLP can be useful for people struggling to lose weight. In fact, wanting to lose weight is a fairly common reason for why people seek NLP, Herts. Whilst NLP is by no means a magic diet pill, it can be very useful in addressing the issues associated with over-eating such as confidence, self-esteem, motivation and negative coping strategies. This article discusses seven NLP tools, which can help you in being slim and healthy.

1. NLP Communication Model – This model underlies any change work in NLP and a good therapist will explain this model to you. It is very important as it tells us how people use language in specific patterns, during thinking. Depending on the nature of the way you talk to yourself when thinking, you could be undermining the efforts you make to eat healthily and be slim. The NLP communication model can help you to begin to be much more aware of the language you use during thinking, in order that you can develop positive thinking habits. Since how you think has a massive effect on how you feel, it also effects how you behave. Change your thinking patterns and you will get different behavioural results. In the case of weight loss, this can be a change in your eating or exercise habits.

2. NLP Presuppositions – These are a set of convenient beliefs which if you subscribe to them, can lead to you feeling much more empowered. For example, one of the presuppositions is that all behaviour has a positive intention. This does not mean that everything a person does it morally good or good for society. It means that each person, only always carry out behaviours that are positive for them in some way, i.e. meet some higher human need. So, if you feel frustrated at yourself for overeating when you feel you really shouldn’t, its time to begin to think about what needs you meet through food. Only, then can you acknowledge that you have been doing the best with the resources available to you at the time and begin to plan how to meet the need met by food in a more positive way.

3. NLP Frame – Cause is greater then effect. NLP frames are frames of reference that guide the individual towards taking responsibility for themselves, how they feel and what happens in their lives. During NLP therapy you will be encouraged to BE at CAUSE. This means that things happen in your life because of you, not too you. NLP does not claim this to always be the case, it asks you to try to live your life guided by the frames. Being at cause means you get the credit for all the great things you achieve, of course, it also means that you have to take responsibility for outcomes that your not so proud of. How does this relate to dieting? Well as a person who used to smoke and who tried to stop for several years before I was successful, I know that I felt much more comfortable about lighting up, if I had a reason (excuse). So, it was the fault of my stressful day, argument with boyfriend, because I’d had a glass of wine, because I needed to relax and not because I was choosing to smoke over other behavioural options. This can be the case, with bingeing or snacking. Once you begin to stop kidding yourself during thinking and actually begin to stop and say, actually I don’t have to eat this, I can act in a different way, I take responsibility, you have taken a big step towards the slimmer you.

4. NLP Formal Change Techniques – There are several formal change techniques, which are useful for helping with weight-loss. The most appropriate technique will depend on your unique problem. Here are a few: 1) The Swish Technique can be used if you wish to replace a highly contextualised problem behaviour with a more positive behaviour. It works to eliminate behaviours that occur in specific situations after specific triggers. 2) Parts Integration is very useful at uncovering the positive intention of your unhelpful eating habits and dealing with incongruent behaviour and feelings. If you’ve had the experience of thinking ‘how have I just eaten that, I’ve been doing so well’, this technique could help you! 3) Like To Dislike – This technique is based on information about how we code memories in our brain. We tend to code things we like in a different way to things we don’t like. So, if you have a particularly problematic food type, its possible to change the memory of the problematic food type into the memory of a food you can’t stand. This technique works really well if you have a food that you really hate! 4) Hypnosis with positive suggestion – many NLP therapists will have studied hypnotic techniques based on the Ericksonian model, during NLP training and will utilise these techniques during therapy sessions.

5. Getting Leverage – NLP therapists are skilled at getting leverage. This basically means helping the client to recognise and experience the impact of the problem behaviour, such as overeating, on themselves and those around them. It will help you find your motivation and will identify those who are not motivated.

6. Setting Well Formed Goals. NLP takes goals setting seriously and has developed criteria for goal setting that results in the goals being much more achievable and likely to be reached. Your therapist can support you in working towards your weight loss goals.

7. Developing Positive Coping Strategies. Acknowledge that your problematic eating has served a purpose in the past, in that it has likely been a method for coping. Now you want to develop positive coping strategies that serve you in the present and future. When would now be the right time to be good to yourself?

These are just a few of the ways that NLP can help you develop new options in thinking and behaviour. I have found these techniques effective during NLP, Herts at my NLP practice, Herts, when supporting clients in losing weight.

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About the Author:

Karen is a mental health occupational therapist. Karen practices privately in Hertfordshire, where she employs NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques to help people with weight loss, as well as many other emotional, psychological and behavioural issues. Visit http://www.karenhastings.co.uk

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10 NLP Patterns For Educators

“Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) offers many simple, yet sophisticated ideas for accelerating and enhancing education.” The below article highlights 10 NLP patterns sure to enhance the students and teachers experience in the classroom.

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10 NLP Patterns For Educators

By Craig Pinegar

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) is as famous for its effective use in personal coaching and therapeutic applications as it is for its colorful origins. Yet despite the great potential of NLP’s insights to enhance or even transform education, formal inroads into schools, colleges and universities remain elusive. One reason, perhaps, is that NLP training is a competitive industry in its own right, with a slight new-age flavor and a price point that makes NLP prohibitive for school systems to adopt widely. Another reason may be that among the factions within the NLP business, consistency of approach and quality is lacking, leaving schools to consult with NLP trainers on an ad hoc basis, if at all.

To help bridge the divide between NLP proponents and educators, I offer this article, and herein would like to discuss NLP not as a business, but as phenomenology, or what happens subjectively inside the learning mind, hoping the NLP ideas here will find their way into more and more classrooms.

In formal education as in other applications, NLP leverages the real-time subjective experiences of students and teachers, to help students tailor their own learning strategies based on their internal maps of the world. Basic NLP earning strategies can be taught to teachers and students alike, presupposing that students will then take more responsibility and credit for their own success. These NLP strategies start with the end in mind, enable students to alter their own mental and physiological states, map new learning to their own internal maps or change their internal maps to accommodate the new learning, try alternate ways of viewing or expressing new learning, and future-test new learning for ecology.

I will highlight 10 foundational NLP patterns with brief examples of their possible application in school, and trust your imagination to implement these ideas effectively in the classroom.

1. Teach Well-formed Outcomes

They say that a problem well-defined, is half-solved. NLP teaches that effective learning happens best when you know the outcome you want. Once an outcome is defined, vivid visualizing enhances the outcome, and prepares the students’ minds to do well on tests. In solving complex problems or on projects, “chunking” is an NLP term used to teach breaking steps toward the outcome into meaningful and manageable sizes. Obstacles are dealt with in simulation mode, and then the student is better prepared to navigate around or through those obstacles when they arise in real life.

2. Teach Pacing, Matching and Leading

NLP teaches that in a state of rapport, any learning is possible. Students learn best when they feel esteem and respect for their teacher, and absence of fear from their peers. Rapport is facilitated when the teacher not only matches the physiology and language of the students, but paces or aligns the material to their mental maps of the world. Once students feel they operate from the same map, the teacher can lead them into new learning territory. Additionally, listening and rapport-building are valuable life skills to be formally taught to students.

3. Teach State Calibration

NLP advocates using sensory acuity to observe the person in front of you for clues about their current state. Teachers who learn to read body language have at their disposal a real-time meter which tells them whether their teaching is getting through. Signals are given off via postures, gestures, breathing and eye movement patterns, and skin tones and color, which do not hint at whether the teaching is momentarily “hot or cold”. Adjust accordingly. Students who learn body language can also gain emotional intelligence, and navigate school, work and home life more freely.

4. Teach Future Pacing and Checking Ecology

Future pacing and ecology checks are ways to test and debug mental strategies in our heads before going into real life with them. If school is a kind of laboratory, then it is the perfect venue for this kind of testing. Students and teachers can gauge the impact of every decision, action, project and learning on their futures, their families and communities, and the environment. Checking ecology is highly subjective, but exercises critical mental muscle, and is less slippery values-based approaches.

5. Teach Flexibility of Response

Rigid teaching styles only reach a portion of their students, part of the time. Behavioral calisthenics allow the teacher to draw on a fuller range of emotional states, verbal delivery patterns, to reach more students more of the time. Students can also learn that if something is not working, try something else. Flexibility that is openly rewarded teaches that there is no such thing as failure… only feedback. The queen rules the chessboard, because she has the most available moves.

6. Teach State Elicitation

In NLP, a state involves thoughts, feelings and physiology, and covers the spectrum from deep relaxation to high excitement. A great teacher needs to be able to “light up” the neurology, in order to associate the right state with the new learning. Memorable learning does not happen through intellectual discussions, but through emotionalized discussions, such as fear, anger, disgust, confusion, shock, peace, joy, forgiveness, focus, fun, going for it. Emotions are energy in motion, and should not be suppressed, but channeled in productive and ecological ways.

7. Teach State Induction

I am not suggesting to teach or use hypnosis here, as it is illegal in many states to induce trance in school, and deep trance is overshooting the mark. However, it is well-documented that relaxed, alert “alpha” states are most conducive to absorbing new material. A teacher could unobtrusively teach students how to take a deep breath, and focus or defocus their eyes a bit before taking in new information. At other times, a teacher can teach students how to access “beta” states, when high alertness is required to execute tasks rapidly (this is the state induced by most video games). Effectively teaching students to alter their states willingly can preempt the need for stimulant drugs. Humor is a very powerful tool for inducing a learning state. We always remember the things that gave us a good laugh!

8. Teach Breaking State

When moving from topic to topic, or between repetitions of a new mental sequence, this NLP pattern teaches the importance of “clearing the screen”. Breaking state allows for students to clearly identify the beginning and ending of a mental sequence, and also to generalize the new mental strategy across contexts. Hey! Do you smell popcorn?

9. Teach Anchoring

This NLP pattern installs a link between positive emotions and positive behaviors or strategies at the peak of a positive emotional state. Using sensory acuity, teachers can be alert to those peaks as they happen, and reinforce them with “yes!”, “you got it!”, “boom!”, “pow!” or some other kind of distinct cue. Soon, the emotion and the behaviors become integrated. Students can also be taught that negative anchors can be undone and replaced with positive anchors. Knowing this gives great strategies for school, home, work and life.

10. Teach Accessing Positive Intent

Disagreement and disappointment are a part of life, but this NLP pattern presupposes that we all do things for some positive reason. Teachers and students who frame disagreement and disappointment in a positive light can avoid being critical, while they keep the dialogue moving ahead. This patterns involves a line of questioning that will ask for the positive intent, and then look for a better way to achieve it.

I don’t know how or when the reader will embrace these ideas or how or when individual teachers will incorporate these ideas in their own classrooms, but I believe that these 10 NLP patterns merit consideration in every case. It is up to the reader to decide now, and apply these patterns meaningfully and successfully.

Craig Pinegar a coach and teacher, a supply chain systems architect, a husband, and a father of four, using the internet and local study groups as venues for helping people get introduced to NLP, and to make it their own, through practicing NLP patterns in the real world, with real people, in real time, and for free.

As in sports and music, NLP is an art form, and while it may matter who you study with, but the practice and well you perform are what really matter. NLP is done from the heart, not the head. To do NLP well, you need to be in the zone, and I can help you get there.

Together, we can use NLP tools to change the world from the inside out, and bottom up.

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Anthony Robbins NLP

By Chris Dreyer

Anthony Robbins is born Anthony J. Mahavick in February 29, 1960. Self-help writer, professional speaker and occasional actor are just some of the qualifications under his belt. With his best-selling books, he managed to touch and changed numerous lives, introducing the science behind the sense personal awareness. Robbins is known as a writer of topics that focuses on health and energy, overcoming fears, the power of effective persuasive communication and relationships. Through his numerous infomercials, he has become a worldwide phenomenon, promoting personal development with his audio programs and motivational seminars. He primarily makes use of neuro-linguistic programming or NLP and various hypnosis techniques in his claims of personal awareness. A good communicator, speaker, healer and life coach, Robbins combines his skills with unconventional and conventional persuasive techniques to promote personal change.

With only high school education in tow, Robbins have managed to create an empire with his gift of better understanding of life and human nature in combination with his excellent communication skills. His first vocation, being in sales, was his initial practice of his inherent knowledge of persuasion. His fondness for personal growth books only helped him develop and refine is remarkable ability to promote positivity and confidence from among his listeners and readers. In 1983, Robbins was have grown interest in NLP, a then new and promising technique that is claimed to be effective in promoting instant and positive transformation by directly altering the unconscious “programs” of the human mind.

Robbins has started practicing NLP in his career after learning its principles directly from its co-founder, John Grinder. Working with the perception that human capabilities is relative to his self-awareness, such principles have significantly helped him refine his thoughts, which eventually has catapulted his career and popularity. As one of the practices of NLP, Grinder has convinced Robbins to look into firewalking. From the principles of NLP, Robbins has later on introduced NAC or Neuro-Associative Conditioning, making use of the term conditioning rather than programming. He claims that “conditioning” implies that the subject has a greater responsibility for his or her own change while “programming” accounts the change to someone else.

Robbins was drawn into the principles that NLP entails since it very much applicable in his practice of promoting self-help. He then took the principles of NLP in his series of television and radio programs, which have significantly helped NLP be widely accepted by the public. Understandably, Robbins had faced the lashing words of skeptics. In response, having witnessed the dramatic change that NLP has brought in improving the way his supporters lived their lives, he publicly challenged his critic psychiatrists to work with their toughest patients or case in front of live audience. In the said program, Robbins has cured a woman of her phobia of snakes, a case that were handled by a professional psychiatrist for years. What’s amazing is that he had cured the woman in only fifteen minutes. From then on, the public has grown interest in his seminars, books and whatever he is working on.

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The Importance of Self-Belief

Author: Roseanna Leaton

It is difficult to measure the effect of your own individual self-belief. After all, you only know for sure what you have or have not achieved and cannot prove to yourself how much more you might have achieved if you were more confident. It is only when you look at the human race as a group and you begin to question and compare the impact of various traits that the value of self-confidence can be so easily identified.

It has been noted and proven time and again that your level of self-belief does indeed prove to be a good predictor of success and achievement in many different areas of your life. If only self-confidence was a class taught in schools; it would indeed become the most important class of all. Why is it not taught, when everyone agrees as to the vital impact of confidence in one’s life?

I believe that the answer to this question lies primarily in that no one can agree on HOW confidence can be taught. Confidence is not a tangible thing in the sense of making 1 + 1 = 2 or knowing how to spell correctly. Rather it is an emotion; it is a feeling. This is what makes so many people shy away from the thought that confidence can be taught, or learned through teaching. Instead, there is a communal belief which indicates that you either have confidence or you do not, and that is “how it is”.

But I fear that this is a cop-out. The effect of having confidence or a lack of confidence IS tangible; you can feel it, you can hear it in one’s tonality and see it in one’s posture…and you can all but taste it as well. Confidence is a real live, living, breathing, tangible thing. The very thing which prevents you from gaining confidence is the belief that “this is how you are” and that that’s all there is to it.

It is high time to take a step back and view confidence and lack of confidence from a different angle. Do you agree that confidence or lack of it is directly related to the experiences in one’s life? Very few people would disagree with this statement. The thing is that once you appreciate that how you experience something is dependent upon your perception of that something, then you begin to realize that you can begin to change.

Your perceptions of the world around you and your expectations about what might happen all come from within; they come from your own inner mind. You can access the inner workings of your mind simply by choosing to learn hypnosis. You can learn to use hypnosis with the help of hypnosis downloads. It’s easy. Hypnosis is normal and natural, and allows you to access your subconscious mind.

Once you have access to your subconscious mind with the help of hypnosis, you can then place suggestions in your mind to build your confidence, to build your self-esteem, to build your self-worth. Hypnosis is another subject which should be taught in schools; it is the most enabling and empowering state of mind and it is totally natural. Once again I fear that the reason it is not taught (in general) is because it is misunderstood; hypnosis, like confidence, is perceived (incorrectly) as intangible. It is not perceived as something which easily complies with the ticking of boxes.

It is ironic that both confidence and hypnosis can be taught, and can be measured (if one tries to do so). Both are indeed far more quantifiable than you may at first expect. We should all give thanks to people such as Richard Bandler and Paul McKenna who have identified ways to de-mystify hypnosis and also to give hypnosis and NLP structure and methodology. Even the most analytical of thinkers would find it hard to question the value of hypnosis is this day and age, as scientific research time and again proves its effectiveness in so many areas of our lives.

Roseanna Leaton, specialist in hypnosis downloads for self-confidence.

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With a degree in psychology and qualifications in hypnotherapy, NLP and sports psychology, Roseanna Leaton is one of the leading practitioners of self-improvement. You can get a free hypnosis download from http://www.RoseannaLeaton.com and peruse her extensive library of hypnosis downloads for self-confidence.

What is NLP?

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What is NLP? by Richard Bandler

What is NLP? by John Grinder

The 2 co-founders of NLP (Richard Bandler & John Grinder) talks about what NLP is. If I may summarised for you, Richard Bandler in his video defines “NLP is the study of the Structure of Subjectivity” whereas John Grinder defines “NLP is the Modelling of Excellence”. You might be confused especially when you watch John Grinder’s video which is why you can’t learn NLP just by reading books, listening to audio CDs or learning online.

Let me share with you how NLP has already influenced you without you knowing in your daily life. If you drive along the road and you see red traffic light, may I ask what will you do? You will definitely say “Stop”.

The question is “Who told you to stop?”. Answers that I get from my participants range from the law, the driving centre, traffic police, etc.

All the answers are correct. The driver has been trained to stop when they see red light. In NLP perspective, the information you see (ie. red light) goes through one of your 5 senses (ie. Visual) which is the “NEURO’ of Neuro-linguistic Programming since information is communicated via our nervous system.

When the information goes into our mind, we unconsciously label our experience as “Stop” which is the “LINGUISTIC” of Neuro-linguistic Programming. Our right leg then automatically step on the brakes because it has already been conditioned or “PROGRAMMED” to do so.

If you can programme your mind to step on the brake, brush your teeth, eat your breakfast or even do a Banji Jump. You already have the ability to programme your mind to be constantly motivated such that you can make more money, excel in your career, gain confidence, improve your relationship, etc. It’s a matter of HOW!

Studies show that NLP skills can be learned by anyone to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally.

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