NLP: an ally of your personal and professional life

Neurolinguistic Programming, as it is gestated and born at the level of coaching, seems to be a subject only of utility and interest for professionals in these fields, but the reality is that what it is and teaches is applicable to everyone in all areas of life.

Because... Who wouldn't like to communicate better with others? Or being able to end a sabotaging self-talk? Or get your attention when you speak? Or knowing how to manage undesirable reactions to certain circumstances? In practically everything that involves words, thoughts, emotions and behaviors, NLP can help.

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What does NLP do for you?

Neurolinguistic Programming is a set of methods and techniques that allows managing and changing the states and behaviors of a person so that they have a choice which, consequently, will make them feel more free.

It is often said that NLP is like the "nuclear physics of the mind" or the way to decipher the map of our brain, since it helps to understand the complex system of

configuration of thoughts, emotions, ways of communicating and behaving. Once the relationships in this system are understood, possibilities and options are opened up in the person where previously only blockage, anger or anxiety probably existed.

By being able to understand that mental framework that influences so much in all aspects of life, it offers the individual the option to better manage themselves at all levels providing balance and peace inside.

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Direct benefits provided by NLP that help you in your personal and professional life

Although in the previous section we have mentioned in a general way what NLP can do for those who study and know it, Here we leave you 4 more concise benefits or advantages that involve knowing the programming tools Neurolinguistics.

1. Improve communication

Neurolinguistic Programming provides tools and techniques that allow better communication with oneself, since it encourages create less sabotaging self-talk by understanding how our way of thinking and speaking is structured.

But NLP also improves interpersonal relationships a lot. Know the representational systems or one of the essential foundations of Neurolinguistic Programming as is calibration and rapport, it offers a broader vision of the other interlocutor, giving rise to more dialogues fluids.

As if that were not enough, NLP helps in another communicative level more linked to the work plane: in exhibitions, talks and lectures. Everything learned at the level of interpersonal relationships is key to better communicate and connect with listeners; And with specific tools like anchors, the fear of public speaking that many have can be controlled forever.

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2. Self-knowledge and confidence

NLP, by allowing you to decipher the map of the brain, opens a door to deeper self-knowledge, to understand why we think how we think, why we express ourselves in this or that way and why, in line with all of this, we act as we do. And, best of all, it gives options to be able to make changes.

That self-knowledge also leads to deciphering the "hidden" resources or skills that each one has to face the day-to-day with more security, which provides greater self-confidence, something crucial for a much more effective performance both personally and professional.

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3. Overcome false beliefs and irrational fears

Since we are born, we internalize beliefs that we end up considering absolute truths and, in many cases, they are statements that prevent us from moving forward and developing as people (I am not worth for that position, it is impossible that I get to get that, etc.). NLP helps to discover what are those limiting beliefs that we do not know are holding us back and gives the possibility of changing them to turn them into enhancers.

On the other hand, NLP does not cure phobias as such, but it does have some techniques that allow the individual to manage their thoughts and emotions before certain irrational fears (fear of a spider, traveling by plane, etc.) so that you can face them little by little without being limited in your life.

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4. Control emotions and actions

As we have already said several times throughout this article, NLP works deeply with the relationship between thoughts, emotions and actions. In this sense, it is a tremendously effective tool for identifying emotions and emotional states. (here it is closely linked with Emotional Intelligence) understand them and, especially, learn to welcome them.

Thanks to some tools such as the so-called "6 steps to freedom", impulsive people, those who, as they say, react to certain situations disproportionately, and then feel bad, they can learn to modify those reactions, not rejecting u hiding their emotions, but knowing how to identify when they occur, why they occur and stopping the behavior they generate in a way aware.

Learning NLP requires the study of its theoretical bases and fundamentals and a lot of practice to assimilate, little by little, all its powerful techniques. On D’Arte Human And Business School We are experts in the three steps of NLP training that guarantee precise and stepped learning of Neuro-Linguistic Programming: Practitioner, Master and Trainer. In addition, we have among the trainers one of the co-creators of this methodology, Frank Pucelik, a staunch defender and disseminator of the original NLP that, of course, is taught in school.