Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a name that encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience: neurology, language and programming. The neurological system regulates how our bodies function, language determines how we interface and communicate with other people and our programming determines the kinds of models of the world we create. Neuro-Linguistic Programming describes the fundamental dynamics between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic) and how their interplay affects our body and behavior (programming).

Created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the early 1970s, NLP evolved from a study of how people think, to teaching them how to change the way they think. The models created yielded many techniques that use simple thought experiments to modify a person’s submodalities and effect immediate change. These techniques have been used to helped people with phobias, fears, anxieties, addictions, negative habits, and past traumas without the use of trance.