Carolyn Boyes - NLP

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a way of thinking about how the world works. It is the study of excellence and how you can achieve it. This book explains what Neuro-Linguistic Programming has to offer and how you can use it for success in your everyday life.

Whatever you do for a living and whatever stage you are at in your life, whether young, middle aged or elderly, Neuro-Linguistic Programming can help you achieve more. If you are a business person, if you are in a relationship, if you want to improve a sport, get rid of a phobia, have greater satisfaction in your social life or change a habit, there are NLP techniques that you can use to create new results.

It may be that you would like to be a better communicator, have smoother relationships, greater career success, more money or just know yourself better. Perhaps you are very successful in conventional terms but there are still things you would like to change within yourself. N LP can show you how.

In your personal life, NLP can show you ways to create a personally fulfilling and happy life. In other words, you can use NLP to coach yourself. In business, you can use NLP to coach your colleagues, for sales, for presentations and for improved communication and management. You can also use NLP for personal coaching for example, to help a person to get rid of a limiting belief or an unwanted habit, to refine his goals or to work with a series of issues.

NLP is concerned with how the top people in any area consistently achieve results. It is more than a way of thinking about success, though it also provides a series of practical techniques that can be easily learned and applied to any area of life.

The belief that lies behind NLP is that each person who achieves outstanding results has a method, process and structure by which he does so. NLP analyses that persons thinking and behaviour to make a model of excellence that anybody can use to replicate his success. Next, NLP takes this model and shows you how you can apply it not only to replicate the successful methods of others but also to create your own successes. NLP can also be used as a way of understanding the methods by which you achieve good results and how you can reproduce them on a consistent basis.

Thousands of people all over the world have already found NLP can create improved results in many areas of their life. In any of these areas, NLP can help you to make use of your inner potential, create a vision and purpose, set effective goals and achieve them.

This book is for anyone who wants to explore what NLP is about or who wants to know more about the techniques anyone who wants to learn a process that can improve his quality of life.

Chapters 1 to 5 explain the basic principles of NLP. The following chapters go into detail about the different techniques that you can use to remove barriers and move towards success. Chapter 11 brings everything together and looks at how you might work with another person. There is also a useful glossary of NLP terms and a bibliography at the end of the book.

The aim of the book is that you will be able to use your new skills to improve your life. You can begin to use these skills straightaway. They are all tried, tested and highly practical. The more you are able to practise them, the better. You may find it useful to find opportunities to practise them as you go through the book, as you will find this helps your understanding grow. So do take the time to try them out with yourself or others.

Most importantly, NLP is about experimenting and enjoying new things, so have fun!