A Brief History of NLP

NLP Articles:

Richard Bandler                              John Grinder

NLP was invented by Ricard Bandler who was a student at University of California at that time (1973) and John Grinder, a linguist who was one of his lecturers.

Richard Bandler helped Robert Spitzer edit The Gestalt Approach (1973) based on a manuscript by gestalt therapist Fritz Perls. While he was listening to and selecting portions of the taped therapy sessions, it came to him that there were particular word and sentence structures which facilitated the acceptance of Perls' therapeutic suggestions. Bandler took the idea to John Grinder.

Bandler and Grinder then found out that the particular structures of language will work on the problem of people if the pattern repeated correctly by any person. And the result showed the same as the therapist made it.

After they studied Perls's utterances on tape together,they observed a second therapist Virginia Satir to produce what they termed the meta model. Meta model is a model for gathering information and challenging a client's language and underlying thinking.

Bandler and Grinder also took ideas from Gregory Bateson and Alfred Korzybski, especially about human modeling.

The next model bandler and Grinder explored was from Milton Erickson who was an early expert of Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy.

The main other models and techniques of NLP are anchoring, reframing, submodalities, perceptual positions, representational system came after the meta model and Milton model.

NLP gained its popularity after the book "Frogs into Princess" published which sold more than 270 thousand copies.

NLP: What is NLP?

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a kind of method to explore and boost a person's abilities, confidence, self-esteem, and mindset with the way to model other persons who are the best in his or her field. It works in subconscious level of a person. The purpose is how to do a thing as best as the best person does it. NLP helps people to communicate well by understanding others much better.

According to Oxford English Dictionaries:

NLP provides a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with therelationship between successful patterns of behavior and the subjective experiences underlying them.

The co-founders give definitions of NLP as follow:

1. Richard Bandler’s “NLP is how we use the language of the mind to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.”

2. John Grinder: "NLP is an accelerated learning strategy for the detection and utilization of patterns in the world."

NLP can handle your phobia in minutes by changing the pattern of your brain's neuron using language (proper words that work), so it would be a new program (mindset) for you.

It will work for other obstacles such as the nervous in Public  Speaking, traumas, habit disorder, depression, learning disorders or how to deal with your business partner, boss, employee, friends, kids, sife/husband or even yourself. You can manage your mood in difficult situations, stay focus and energetic and so on.

Not only you can get rid of the negativities, NLP can also help you getting the positivities. Setting goals, acquiring a particular person’s abilities, and you can also improve your inherent abilities or skills easily.

NLP is recommended for people that need personal development or who work in coaching, sales, sports, management, negotiation, public persuasions or kinds of.

 The most important thing is you can do it by yourself without being dependent of such a therapist or so.