The Principles of NLP

The basic principles of NLP are:

We create our own reality.
You know your reality, but you don’t know other people’s realities.
Our realities limit what we are capable of more than do the constraints of external realities.
Each person has their own reality. As they operate from that reality, they’re always right.

Our behavior is purposeful.
Every behavior is useful in some context.
Your current behavior is the best possible choice for you at the time.
You are doing the best you can – and you could probably do better.
People do the best they can given the choices they believe to be available to them.

We can change experience.
Everything that is said, done, experienced is said, done, experienced by someone.
People will make meaning from experience, not just respond.
Whenever we speak, our language reveals our deeper experience.

You have within you the resources you need to achieve what you want.
We get what we concentrate on.
Choice is better than no choice. Always aim to increase choice.
People work perfectly – no one is wrong or broken.
Modeling excellence leads to excellence.
If one person can do something, it is possible to model and teach it to others.
People with the most flexibility are most likely to achieve what they want. The part of any system that has the greatest variety of possible responses will control the system.
We all have equal access to building and using internal resources.

It is certainly easier to change yourself than to change others.
Mind and body are systemic, hence when you change one, you’ll change the other.
Energy flows where attention goes.
As we have better strategies for achieving what we want, we will choose to use them.

Would you like to know more about how you can use NLP [principles] in daily situations? Let’s talk about it.

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