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Lecture 21.2 The Development of NLP


Hi there and welcome back The NLP  techniques initially came from
already existing therapies, for the most
and in this lesson we are
part anyway. 
going to look in more depth
at NLP Neuro Linguistic
NLP was first used by psychotherapists
programming.
and hypnotherapists and using
Now NLP is a big topic and in fact I information already known, NLP has
have a number NLP course that you created models that are easy to
can take if you wish to discover more understand and use. The good thing 
about it, however in this course we are about nlp is that its application is fairly
just looking at a bit of and overview. simple making it more accessible. Its
So… where did NLP come from? Well also fast. And clients can get some
let's take a look.  really good rapid results. It pulls on the
best parts of Psychotherapy and puts
them into models for achieving rapid
results. 

So... NLP can be used in different ways,


it has been applied to business, sales
and marketing, but we will focus on
how it is used in therapy. The
development of NLP took into
Ok so NLP was first created by a
consideration new ideas that hadn’t
couple of Americans, Richard Bandler
been recognised yet, such as the work
and  John Grinder with significant input
of hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, and
from others such as Robert. Dilts. And
Family therapist Viginia Sator and
Bandler and Grinder  wanted to study
formed them into simple models. 
excellence and produce methods,
models and systems from this. The aim
was to make the techniques used by Milton Erickson’s work is particularly
experts accessible to everyone.  important because he used new
techniques in relaxation and hypnosis 
at a time where the focus was on
While NLP sometimes uses therapeutic
creating deep trances. He triggered
methods, it is not actually a therapy in
altered states through storytelling and
the traditional sense of the word. 
descriptive visualisation and this led to
NLP techniques refocusing on light
states of relaxation.
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Lecture 21.2 The Development of NLP


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There is so much knowledge under the So the two NLP techniques we are
umbrella of NLP and I encourage you going to look at in this program are
to do some further reading, ‘resource anchoring’ and ‘swish
particularly about how it can be patterns... These sound a bit different
applied. And I think your practise will to the names used before. This is
be improved greatly by having NLP as because they are supposed to be
one of the tools in the tool chest. accessible instead of being overly
technical.

The definition of each though is as


follows. Resource anchoring is based
around stimulus response and the
swish pattern  is image manipulation
for the purpose of changing
strategies.  Once you have learnt about
these you can come up with your own
We have already looked at one model translations if you would prefer. For
of NLP which was the goal setting accuracy, do mention the proper
process if you remember. In this names so clients can read further
section we are going to look at two about techniques if they would like. In
more NLP models.  fact while we are on that point I would
always encourage self-help and
encourage clients to study programs
There are lots of useful things you can
like this for example.
do with NLP and the models we are
going to learn will start you off well. To
be able to explore NLP further yourself Ok so  NLP combines ideas from many
you need to master the techniques we other therapies into simple models and
are going to look at which are multi- for the relaxation used in NLP only a
purpose and flexible. You will also light trance is necessary. 
need to understand the terminology
used in NLP. So practice is necessary
and extra reading or training would be  So what is resource anchoring? We are
a good idea too.  going to explore that in the next
lesson. See you there. 

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