A lot of NLP looks at language and how we use it to convey our messages. Importantly, it recognises the power of language, and how our choice of words can change the message. The same applies to images and sounds, how things feel, and how they taste and smell. Indeed, our whole world is made
In my podcast on 27th April 2026 (series 3, episode 4 – “Communication now in a thought-created world”) I talked about the NLP Model of Communication. It’s all about how we process the world through our five senses. We do, though, each have a preferred system for processing the world and a preferred system for
One of the presuppositions of NLP is that everyone is doing the best that they can with the resources that they have available. In other words, our behaviour and the behaviour of others is the best that we can all do in that moment. This, quite frankly, seemed hard to accept when I see so
Life is so much easier if you get along with the people around you. It makes the good times sweeter. Conversely, it helps you get through the bad times with a little less pain. Creating those positive connections seems to happen without any real action. However, you are almost certainly aware of those people who’ve
You trust your memories. You rely on your senses to inform you about the world around you. Crucially, you trust your mind, both conscious and unconscious to process and store all that’s happening. Additionally, you assume that when you think about the past, you’re presented with an accurate representation. Yet, nothing could be further from
Some past events just won’t go away. You think they’re gone, something happens, and suddenly back in the moment. You immediately experience those powerful negative emotions as you revisit the terrible events which you just can’t forget or forgive. Indeed, the events may be such that it’s more a case of won’t forgive or forget.
One of the presuppositions of NLP is that there is no failure, only feedback. The premise is that if you view those results which are different from what you wanted as feedback rather than failure, you can learn from what you did and then do better. It’s a great notion. It flips your understanding on
A starting point in NLP are the presuppositions. They are a set of beliefs which, if you adopt them, support you to communicate more effectively, assist you as you grow and develop, and allow you to become more flexible in your approach and behaviour. The presuppositions are not factually true. They are, though, a way
I am often asked what NLP is, and when I tell people that NLP is the study of the structure of our subjective experience, I frequently get some very blank looks. We all experience the world in different ways, even when our experiences are objectively the same. We process and store information about our world
We go through life accruing experiences, some good, some bad, and some indifferent. We process those experiences and most end up safely stored in our memories. It’s all part of the amazing power of the unconscious mind. However, some memories just don’t resolve. For multiple reasons we keep those memories alive, reliving and revisiting them,