Hypnosis and NLP

Hypnosis and NLP

Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP for short are very closely related. In fact, hypnosis is the foundation of NLP. Beginning in the early 1970s Richard Bandler and John Grinder assembled a collection of various psychology-based self-help techniques designed to help people overcome non-supportive lifestyle habits. The techniques were based upon the practices of traditional practitioners who had achieved rapid success with their clients rather than dragging therapy sessions out over the course of months or even years.

The one thing common to these techniques was that they were all focused on instant results. And the techniques culled from the most successful therapists of the day were chosen exclusively because they were known to effect positive changes in people in a relatively short period, sometimes with only a single short session. A few of the noted therapists that the two men modeled in developing NLP were Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, Gregory Bateson and Milton Erickson.

Each of the therapists mentioned above had gotten good at producing results in a short time. Bandler and Grinder took the most productive of their methodologies and sprinkled them with the 'magic dust' of NLP. What is NLP exactly? NLP is a method of exchanging non-productive lifestyle activities with behaviors that are more suited to health, happiness and prosperity. The definition is certainly not all-inclusive but does address the spirit of the discipline.

The reason it's so difficult to identify NLP is that there are so many variables involved in the practice. For example, if an individual were to present with a phobia or an addiction, there would be many ways to deal with the particulars of the problem and those would be at the discretion of the practitioner according to his or her perception of the ailment as well as his experience in dealing with the malady.

In other words, there is no right or wrong method of treatment with NLP. There is only what gets results. Practitioners have the option of using many established treatments or they can concoct an impromptu treatment according to the subject's history, symptoms and background. Once again, NLP focuses on results rather than protocol and this approach has worked well since NLP came to notice on the self-help, self-development stage in the 1970s.

As Grinder and Bandler synthesized the techniques they discovered that Milton Erickson’s hypnosis methods were providing the framework for many of the strategies to effect rapid change. In the years since, practitioners of NLP have developed many transformational techniques to help people quickly overcome phobias, allergies, addictions, physical illness, and often more sever symptoms such as psychoses.

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