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- NLP studies how people excel at things. It describes how these successful people think, feel, and act when they are performing at their best.
- The advantage of NLP is its ability to uncover not just external actions but the internal processes behind those actions, known as subjective experience.
- The way these internal and external behaviours are arranged and ordered are called strategies
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NLP is terrific to help people in all aspects of their lives. For example, I
have help clients with:
- Thinking strategies such as decision making, problem solving, inquiry and design.
- Interpersonal strategies such as leadership, team engagement, persuasive presentations, public speaking, interpersonal communication and social engagement skills.
- On a more personal level, I’ve helped clients from everything from getting over phobias of all kinds, addiction, hypervigilance, grief, anticipatory loss, PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression and rage.
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An easy way to think about it is that all living things on planet Earth
experience, in their own way, the Sun rising in the East and setting in
the West. That's an ordinary subjective experience
- Science is an extraordinary experience and, through science, we know that the Sun does not go up and down in the sky, the Earth spins.
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The Japanese are one of the most scientific cultures in the world but,
in light of this scientific knowledge, they are still not going to change
their flag because they like it, identify with it and it means something
to them individually. This subjective experience is how we experience
life through our neurology. It is very personal to us individually. Our
likes and dislikes, our interests and passions, our ambitions and
concerns change over time and they are as unique to each of us as
our thumb print.
- Whereas, scientific reality is a constant, common to us all 24-7-365.
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No. Science is the study of objective reality, often through a causal
framework.
- Rather, NLP seeks to describe (that is model) a person’s subjective experience of the people exhibiting internal and external behaviours.
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Sciences such as biology, psychology and medicine are underpinned
by large population statistics, which generate probability distributions
and, which are a corner stone of the scientific method.
- Whereas, the NLP practitioner might only have a single example of one person doing something very well. There may be good reasons for this, such as it is a fairly new behaviour, or very rare skill or it is dying art.
- However, a single observation of someone’s individual subjective experience may be interesting to a scientist but is not statistically valid scientifically.
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Yes. For example, Doctors, with their scientific training, act like
detectives when diagnosing patients. They use symptoms to estimate
the likelihood of a disease and the possible success of treatment.
- About 70% of patients fall within the average range, giving doctors a good chance of diagnosing correctly.
- Yet, 15% on either side may not respond typically to treatment, reminding us of the saying, “take two of these pills and call me
in the morning.”
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Besides medical knowledge, successful doctor-patient interactions
require problem-solving, communication, and social skills.
- NLP has studied experts from various fields, including medicine, to model these skills. This helps enhance interactions, especially in clinical settings.
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Additionally, NLP can guide clinicians to be culturally sensitive,
especially where Western science interacts with indigenous
knowledge, as seen in parts of Australia.
- This ensures that clinicians remain effective in diverse settings.
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NLP Practitioners take full advantage of scientific knowledge, after all,
we live in a scientific age.
- Personally, I have a BSc. in Economics, with a strong statistical base, I have worked as an industrial engineer and logistician. I have over two decades of experience in NLP and I have kept myself actively abreast of scientific development in behavioural economics, neuroscience, psychology and other disciplines.
- I do this to remain up to date in my knowledge about the human body, its evolved structures, whether uniquely human, like verbal language, or those common to other primates and mammals, like our neurology and social engagement impulses;
as well as understanding our different and changing working and social environments and their habitats.
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My clients have included MDs, psychologists, engineers and other
STEM professionals.
- All of these brilliant people were flesh-and-blood human beings with a human neurology.
- Therefore, they were subject to their subjective experience, some of which they regarded as problematic and would like to change for the better, and I was very happy to assist.