What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP is a new approach that emerged in the USA and is widely used by psychologists, psychotherapists, educators and consultants in companies and industries.

to understand better “What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming” let us first break down and explain each of the names.

Programming comes from the idea that each human behavior is governed by a type of “mental program”. Just as we open Word or Br.Office to write a text or run Photoshop to work with photos or images, we have an internal program for each behavior.

Thus, to remember a past event we have one program, to tell a story we have another and so on.

Neuro relates to the neurological. A mental image can provoke shivers, adrenaline or tears, that is, it awakens a certain reaction in the body and in the neurology.

Linguistic designates verbal language, but not only, body language (gestures, tone of voice, eye movement) represents a language.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is, therefore, an area of study on human behavior that has innovative assumptions. A Neuro-linguistics technique that became known worldwide was Phobia Therapy in 15 minutes.

For example, a person with an airplane phobia, afraid of flying, got rid of this problem in 15 minutes. From then on, he was able to fly normally, as if he had never been afraid before.

In the following posts, I will talk about the Basic Assumptions of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.