NLP Pre-Reading Flashcards
Which does NLP prefer…. content or process?
Process
True or False: NLP focuses on WHY you do what you do
False. They believe the result comes from WHAT you were focusing on.
What is everything in the world made of?
Energy
Neurological Connection
Neurons in your brain make connections with each other to make you think, feel, and act
What is the job of an NLP Practitioner?
Understanding how we accept limitations and how we create our own barriers within ourselves that block our unlimited potential and possibilities.
Identify the challenges and learn how to get past them to create the life you / your client wants!
Can your mind affect your body?
Yes! The brain communicates with all parts of the body every second. This is the mind-body connection
Why is it possible to live without having a brain?
Because the body compensates for its weak points. The functions of the brain were “reassigned”.
Same reason why blind people have a better sense of touch and smell - they need to adjust and adapt in order to survive.
Can you change your brain even as an adult?
Yes! You can amend your brain as long as you have the right mindset and beliefs. Anything is possible.
Brain Plasticity
When your brain makes new neural-pathways - makes new connections and retracting the old ones.
Are thoughts imaginary?
NO! Thoughts are very real - made of energy (bioelectrical and biochemical impulses)
They are the most potent energy we know of!
How do we create our own reality?
1 - Experience
2- Meaning Making
3 - Feeling Making
4- Feedback
Create our own reality - Experience
Sensory Data - See, Touch, Hear, Smell, Taste
Create our own reality - Meaning Making
Delete, Distort, Generalize - Driving Forces, Rules, Personality, Internal Evaluator
Create our own reality - Feeling Making
My Body + My iReality = My State
Emotion is fuel for action
There are natural ways to change how we feel: what we put in our body, physical activity, change meaning making process
Create our own reality - Feedback
My Behavior (conscious, unconscious) —> My Results (outputs of life)
Important to create clarity around the meaning of the outputs we produce
Meaning Making - Delete
What the brain perceives as important stays, everything else goes
Meaning Making - Distort
Filing system for your brain. Qualification criteria for each folder is determined by your personality and your personal rules, values, belief systems, preferences, etc
Meaning Making - Generalize
Generalizing is more efficient and saves energy - even though it’s not the best for us all the time
Presuppositions of NLP
1 - Respect others’ model of the world
2 - Behavior and Change are to be evaluated in terms of Context and Ecology
3 - Resistence in a Client is a sign of Lack of Rapport
4 - People are NOT their behavior
5 - Everyone is doing their best with the resources they have available
6 - Calibrate on behavior
7 - The Map is NOT the Territory
8 - You’re in charge of your Mind, and therefore your Results
9 - People have all the Resources they Need to Succeed
10 - All Procedures should increase Wholeness
11 - There is ONLY Feedback, no failure
12 - You are 100% Responsible for your Communication
13 - The Law of Requisite Variety
14 - All Procedures are Designed to Increase Choice
15 - All Behavior is Designed to either Seek Pleasure or Avoid Pain
Reticular Activation System (RAS)
How you sense and process information: by deleting, distorting, and generalizing
Psycho-Cybernetic Mechanism (PCM)
Designed to keep you in your comfort zone at all costs.
The body loves efficiency, thus, comfort. Breaking out of the comfort zone leaves you vulnerable and at risk, which the body and mind doesn’t like
Amygdala
Purpose is to sense leaving the comfort zone and trigger stress hormones to bring you back.
Right-hand man of the PCM
Temporal Memories
Memories stored in relationship to time; chronological manner / sequence of events
Atemporal Memories
Memories unrelated to time: learning a language, etc
Where do emotions come from?
The Conditioned Mind starts the process by linking senses with meanings and the hypothalamus produces matching chemicals that impact all cells in your body
The heart processes emotions
How do your memories get organized?
Also by your Conditioned Mind. Links all happy memories together, etc
Why do we repress unresolved memories?
Conditioned Mind does this to protect you.
Dealing with negative emotions and memories constantly would be unbearable.
Burying these emotions take up space, but the Conditioned Mind will bring them to the surface when it feels you are ready to resolve it so it can let these emotions go
What is the purpose of the Conditioned Mind?
The Conditioned Mind has the blueprint for your body to function, heal, and maintain PERFECTLY.
Preserving the integrity of the body is its #1 priority, and is control of all energy in your body
It needs consistent, clear instructions to work at its best
Instincts vs Habits
Instincts are naturally installed
Habits are learned over time, usually taking lots of repetitions
NLP Techniques can help change your strategy / patterns, thus installing a new habit without many reps at all.
Wholeness
Conditioned mind doesn’t need parts.
Fewer the parts, less likely for incongruence.
Being whole = completely congruent
Symbols
Symbols are liked and used by the Conditioned Mind, although interpreted in its very own unique way.
Each Conditioned Mind may interpret symbols (situations, environments, etc) differently, but they are all accurate bc it is left up for interpretation.
Does Not Process Negatives
Exactly why we don’t respond well to “Don’t eat junk food” We hear “eat junk food”
Need to change the vocabulary to better get the message across
“Eat healthy food” is much more effective way to cause actual change
Functions of your Mind
Reason - deductive (benefit you Y-N) & inductive reasoning (product of your environment, only accept and pass along ideas)
Will - energy to keep us moving forward
Imagination - make sense of the world; mental images
Memory - short term (electrical) long term (chemical)
Intuition - inner feeling before you think; vibes you pick up
Perception - see the world only as we have been conditioned to see it as. We don’t see the world for what it really is
7 Natural Laws
1 - Law of Vibration and Attraction 2 - Everything is Energy 3 - Law of Continuous Transformation of Energy 4 - Law of Polarity 5 - Law of Rhythm 6 - Law of Relativity 7 - Law of Cause and Effect
