Hey and welcome back to the Social Psychology Masters YouTube channel. What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming? Neuro-Linguistic Programming, NLP, is a modeling approach that offers a toolkit of ways to deal with life's opportunities and challenges.
It is a very practical discipline, concerned with bringing results into the real world. It starts with an attitude of curiosity. We're interested in how things work. This then leads us to studying and modeling successful people in a variety of situations. These models are continually tested and refined.
In this video we will cover the following topics. Why is NLP so useful? What does NLP actually mean? Top 10 Powerful NLP Techniques to Learn Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more practical and social psychology videos. Why is Neuro-Linguistic Programming so useful?
NLP can help you improve your communication and influence skills quite significantly. Not only that, but practicing NLP techniques will increase your resilience and your ability to master change, just as working out in a gym will build your physical strength, flexibility, and endurance. In business, NLP can improve your results by helping you improve your leadership, sales, management, and relationship skills. In your personal life, it can help you connect to your purpose, overcome blocks, and help you navigate your own hero's or heroine's journey.
What do the words neuro-linguistic programming mean? Neuro means relating to the nervous system. The information we take in through our senses influences our neurological function.
If we improve the accuracy with which we take in information, i.e. we listen better and are more observant, so we are more open to our own and other people's experience. This means our brains have better information to help make decisions. We also increase our ability to communicate effectively, both consciously and unconsciously. Linguistic is about language.
As we understand and are more aware of language, the words themselves as well as their structure and the way they're spoken, speed, voice tone, rhythm. So we get better information for making decisions and communicating consciously and unconsciously. Programming here refers to habits. We develop habits, some useful, some less useful. NLP teaches us how we can develop and encourage useful habits and reduce less useful habits.
So, it's now time to show you the list of the top 10 most useful NLP techniques. 10. State Interrupt. You are a human.
So am I. We interact with other humans, which invariably means there will be drama, emotions and sometimes upsets. The State Interrupt Pattern gives us a powerful tool to stop runaway states, break up conflict, de-escalate tension. Perfect tool for working with yourself, as a parent, people helper or leader.
The spinning feelings pattern recognizes that feelings don't just stop and go dormant, they must move. So when someone says they are frustrated, angry, overjoyed. Things that sound like an event, what is actually happening is the person, often outside their awareness, is doing the activity of generating frustration, angry, joy which is then felt in the body. The more they repeat it the better their body becomes at creating and maintaining the feeling.
With the spinning feelings pattern we want to know where that feeling starts, how it moves, where it goes. By changing the direction of the spinning pattern you can radically alter how the feeling changes, or if you want to make it stronger. With this one wonder pattern you can tackle a wide range of stuck problems and amplify good feelings. You never have to feel permanently crap again and don't have to wait till flow arrives to get into a powerful resourceful state. 8. Collapsing Anchors.
There are actually several patterns that fall under the category of anchoring and all are worth learning. What is anchoring? Anchoring is the process of learning.
It's how two things get linked together in our neurology. With it you can break problematic patterns or trigger off a resourceful state exactly when you need it. collapsing an anchor is where you bring together two states typically a state response that a person finds limiting e.g fear when around their boss and introduce a powerful resource state e.g belly busting laughter at the exact moment they begin to experience the problem emotion by having the body experience the two at the same time it forced the person's neurology to reorganize itself to a neutral or positive state So in this case, the laughter washes over the fear and the person just laughs at their old self being, scared, of the boss. If done right, it works remarkably well. And of course you can add additional states to build on the new feelings anytime you like.
The sub-modality pattern is used in countless other patterns because it's so darn good and key to reorganizing how a person experiences their reality. Applications include changing beliefs, installing confidence, breaking apart negative self-image, reducing stress, getting over loss, building motivation etc. Now wouldn't that be nice pattern to pull in closer to your toolbox? 6. Threshold Pattern As much as people would like to think they got their stuff together, that they run their emotions and free choice completely, more and more people realize that this ain't so. Our mind-body gets caught on a loop and sometimes the same pattern of behavior, thought, emotion or action, occurs over and over again.
And it seems to be beyond our control. The threshold pattern, also known as the compulsion blowout is the your tool of choice for getting the person's mind-body utterly fed up with doing the same old thing that's wearing them out, slowly, or that isn't serving them. We want to break the problematic pattern so it can never be put back together that way again.
And the threshold pattern shows you how. 5. Timelines. Over the years timelines has grown into a whole class of sub-patterns that are very effective in helping us create change and enhance a person's life.
Timelines give you a powerful way to let go of emotional pain without the drama, transform old stories and install new ways of feeling a bright future, long after the change's work has ended. By having a person access their felt sense of time and hallucinating a timeline, we can help them interact with memories of events, access old resources, seed changes back in their past, and generalize those changes all the ways through to the present and beyond, for transformative change. As Richard Bandler so eloquently put it, it's never too late to have a happy childhood. Many people think of timelines as an overt visual change tool, but you can actually use them covertly and conversationally, which makes them incredibly powerful tool for change, persuasion and helping others.
If you framed the problem incorrectly or you don't even realize you've accepted someone else's frame on an issue that is wrong, you are going try to come up with solutions for a problem that doesn't exist, or even if implemented, won't fix the real problem. The mind reading pattern asks a simple but powerful question, how do you know? Or a variation of it. This question causes the person to recover how they know something to be true. It informs you about what is on a person's map.
That map could be your own thinking, a friend's, your colleague's, your doctor's etc. By focusing on this one linguistic pattern you begin to join them in their model of the world and can use this one pattern as a powerful technique for change and transformation. Best of all you can use it anywhere, and it has multiple other uses in persuasion and trance. 3. The Swish.
Wouldn't it be nice to direct your mind to go where you want it to, on cue? When a text pops in, instead of checking out your phone, imagine if your brain took that as a trigger to refocus on what you are working on. Or when you wake up in the morning instead of hitting the snooze button, you find yourself jumping out of bed ready to hit to gym. The swish pattern makes it possible.
It allows us to switch our brain to do this, positive thing, instead of that, unhelpful thing, without conscious intervention. It's so good, you'll find this mega pattern used in many other NLP processes. Learn 1. Master many. 2. Reframing pattern.
This pattern is so good, Richard and John wrote a whole book on it. It's so useful in everyday use that it earned my number 2 spot. Reframing is the process of changing the frame of reference someone uses to order to change the meaning.
Framing can happen at a both verbal and non-verbal level. We can reframe the content or the context for near infinite combinations. So magical are frames that to the untrained eye and ear they are invisible, they are simply felt. They shape and control the thoughts of billions every day. And the fascinating thing is we are all framing things, all the time.
A great communicator uses framing to create new meanings and new realities and to break apart limiting ones. Need to kick the legs off an unhelpful idea, why not deframe it? Worried about how to approach a pay rise with your boss? No problem! Pre-frame it to him as a performance reward session.
Boss accepts you've earned it but rejects the rise on the grounds of limited budgets. Outframe his frame and show how it's possible with counter framing examples. There are so many useful roles reframing can serve it's one every student should master. And finally we arrive at the number one spot. 1. Self-anchoring.
There are several that could have made the top spot including the act as if, pattern, change personal history, or, new behavior generator, etc. Each would be good contenders that can have major generative change on your life. However intentional self-anchoring clinched the top spot because its results are so immediate, it takes very little effort to set up and your ability to anchor yourself or trigger an anchor is always available. Why do we say intentional? Because you are already anchoring yourself all the time.
If remember to turn off the light at night when you walk out of a room, you have created a anchor for yourself. When you self-anchor, you create a reminder in your nervous system, that says when I do this, do that. It allows you to evoke a desired resource state on cue. To teach your brain to chunk, this, signal with, that, response. For example it's like saying, brain when I karate chop, my right hand into my left palm then call up a strong state of confidence and let that emotion flood through my body.
Repeat the self-anchoring process a few times and it's ready to roll for you. Further when you are good at doing this for yourself, it's easy to anchor others, steal other people's anchors and become a person of influence even with people you've just met. Self-anchoring gives you the chance to quickly train and retrain your mind-body to start doing more of the states you want.
To access more of the resources you want. So there you have our top 10 most useful NLP techniques to learn. Are there other techniques you should learn?
Sure there is always more to learn and many other great techniques that didn't make the top 10 cut. Pick up one you're not familiar with from this list and get really familiar with it. If you enjoyed this video don't forget to subscribe to our channel. Check out our other videos for more interesting psychology topics. Thanks for watching.