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December 17, 2006

The NLP Presuppositions: You Are In Charge Of Your Mind And Therefore Your Results

Let's continue with the NLP Presuppositions, the belief system, that guides Neuro Linguistic Programming and its practitioners.

You are in charge of your mind and therefore your result - what powerful belief to have!

I have mentioned it a couple of times already that there are millions of bits of information that come on to us every second (which includes our inner self-talk!). And only a tiny bit goes through because the rest is filtered out inside of us by something that we call filters. These filters are our perception of time, our beliefs and values, memories and experiences and more.

Basically, we look at the world with rosa glasses and according to what we want to see. The few bits that ultimately go through are then forming an internal representation, or a view of the world. I mentioned once the policeman and the realtor that walk together through a street. What they see, observe and perceive as important is different from each other. Do you ever wonder why people describe accidents differently? This is where it is coming from! For them, it is true, but what is happening is that their reality or perception thereof is clashing with the reality of someone else.

Now, this Internal Representation also determines how we feel about something and what we see and hear - excited, happy, scared or fearful. Here again, let me bring you an example. When you are packed like a sardine in the LRT, many are not happy, because it is hot, and sweaty, and simply unconfortable. However, when the same is happening in a disco on a Saturday night, and the band plays loud, and you have to scream to get your friends to hear you - that is exciting. Right?

But how easy is it to change your inner feeling about something? What is then happening is that we change our behaviour. If we think the disco is like the LRT, we might suddenly feel hot, sweaty and unconfortable. This happened because we change our mindset regarding the environment.

What happens if you lose your job? You can mourn about it and filter that experience in such a way that it really feels bad - but what can you do anyway? You lost the job, damn it!! But what is possible is to change your mindset thereabout. Take it as a chance, move on, learn something. Remember, there is no failure, only feedback.

So clearly, being in charge of your mind means that you can, at any point of time, decide, how you want to look at the world. Is it a bad event or a good event? Can you do something about it? Can you learn something?

Have you created it? And that is the next one point to this presupposition - if you are in charge of your mind, you are also responsible for your results. There is no place for pointing at the bad boss, bad day, sucking traffic jam that spoiled your day. No place to complain about the customer who doesn't understand, or the salespitch that didn't go through. You are in charge of the results of your actions, and what are you going to do about it.

No running away anymore.

This is the beauty of these NLP presuppositions. Because they are so completely empowering. So, take care when you join the NLP training in January, hehe, because once you get out of it, there is no turning back. You will have changed, look at the world differently, and ultimately, you are in charge of your mindset and your results.

Are you ready for it? I know you are but do you take the jump? Many say that they want to change, but will they really embark on long lasting change?

Join me in January to a really empowering, action-packed and fun-loaden NLP Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur, that will relate all your learning to the real world.

Here is the brochure, for your reading pleasure, but also, fax in the registration form to secure your seat!

Posted by Andreas at December 17, 2006 09:16 AM

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