Have you tried NLP?

[ActualizedDavid]

Have you tried NLP?

If yes. What's about it?

[LastThursday]

I've had some experience in it, although I haven't used it professionally.

As a rough technical outline it's made up the following areas:

• Specific use of language to induce change in a person (hypnotism, therapy type questions, reframing exercises etc).
• Watching body language (eye movements etc) to create rapport and improve communication.
• Using tactile or auditory stimuli to induce multiple 'states' in order to produce new (positive) behaviour.
• A theory of how stimulus - response works, in order to understand how to change (negative) behaviours

The traditional uses are to cure phobias, anxiety, lack of confidence, quiting smoking, fear of public speaking and many other things.

It's not scientifically proven, but hey. I would say it was fairly similar to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Personally it has helped me get over a lot of anxiety I used to suffer from.

If you want more depth, start on Wikipedia. Then get hold of the books Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton Erickson and Frogs Into Princes. But the self help sections of bookstores will generally have one or two books on it.

Edited October 9, 2019 by LastThursday
clarification.

[Surfingthewave]

@ActualizedDavid If you want to find out about NLP look up Tony Robbins. His work is based on NLP.