What is NLP?
NLP is a remarkably empowering set of skills and techniques
for achieving exceptional results in physical performance as well as
in personal & business development. NLP is also
an attitude and methodology that is requisite for anyone whose objective
is physical excellence.
Neuro – relating to the nervous system and
how we make use of our five senses: sight, sound, feeling, smell and
taste (known in NLP as: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic,
olfactory and gustatory) to interpret our experiences at both the conscious
and the unconscious levels.
Linguistic – how we make use of our language
to translate and influence our experiences and in NLP
how we communicate our experiences both internally to ourselves and
externally to others.
Programming – the method and sequence in which
we ‘encode’ and utilise our experiences in the nervous system
to achieve specific outcomes.
NLP can be described as how we gain an understanding
of the filters of our unconscious minds including our thought processes,
our behaviours and our experiences and most importantly, how we can
learn to utilise these and make dramatic changes that will allow us
to achieve our ultimate limitless physical potential.
NLP enables us to significantly increase our unconscious awareness
and heighten our understanding of the nervous system as well as discovering
how to take control of it to achieve our desired outcomes.
NLP was created in the 1970’s by John Grinder (a linguist) and Richard Bandler (a mathematician & computer programmer) when they asked themselves this question:
It was this very question coupled with an immense curiosity that inspired
John Grinder and Richard Bandler to commence their revolutionary work
into the structure of human excellence that is now known as NLP.
John Grinder and Richard Bandler used NLP modelling
to study the physiology, linguistics, and psychological processes of
meticulously selected models of excellence who where chosen for
their ability to consistently produce exceptional results. The NLP
modelling process developed to study the models of excellence
provided John Grinder and Richard Bandler with the basis of the NLP
patterns of excellence that are now being explicitly incorporated into
OPAL Physical Trainings©.