Ian commented recently basically asking if Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) would also work in Asia when it actually was created in the US. Great comment.
NLP is the study of what works in thinking, language and behaviour in the individual. In this sense, it does not matter if NLP has been created in the US, Europe, Africa or Asia. It is universally applicable.
NLP looks at ones own individual experience and works with this own subjective experience of the individual to bring the person from here to there – from present state to desired state. Thus, it is based on the premises that we are all different. We are different in the way that we have different parents, different experiences (from going and experiencing different classmates, different teachers, different books, different “places” etc., and different exposures to situations in our life – day-in and day-out. Through all this, we establish and continue to form (because we are never a complete “product”) our own personality. We form our values, beliefs and criteria that support beliefs.
All of this is coded in our brains. It is the world of neurochemicals, electric activity, and synapses = the world of 100 billion neurons (some say less some they more – it doesn’t really matter). In order to make sense of the world, we start coding experiences and form habits that guide us through our life from the early stages in our life (here, again, some say that this already starts during the pregnancy, while others say it starts after birth). From the initial phases in our existence, we start interpreting life’s events in a certain manner – in order to make sense of it. Otherwise, we would see the world with new eyes everyday and would need to recreate everything from scratch!
And suddenly, we have developed attitudes, and behaviours that block our development in certain ways or further it in others.
This is where NLP comes in handy. It helps the individual to discover their own path and clarifying foggy issues. It is not imposing values from different cultures, but uses the cultural traits in the individual – which are, again, embedded in the brain, but also in the body. Everything that we think, do, act upon is also expressed in our body. Sometimes the twitch of a muscle in the face, sometimes the movement of an arm, hand or leg reveals the way we feel, see, or hear. Our own individual sensory strategies.
What is the beauty of NLP? It helps you understand and unlock undesirable traits and beliefs in you – undesirable in your own definition, not someone else’s. All of those connections in your mind that hold you back today.
I have outlined some of the areas where NLP can help in personal and business settings here.
Once you identified those traits (either alone or with a coach), it is possible to disconnect them and free the energy – release the energy that hold you back and walk down your own chosen pathway.
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That's a very well thought-through response, JM. Just one thing, though...
"NLP is the study of what works in thinking, language and behaviour in the individual. In this sense, it does not matter if NLP has been created in the US, Europe, Africa or Asia. It is universally applicable."
The linguistic component of NLP (particularly the MetaModel) is based on the Transformational Grammar. This is an attempt at producing a Chompskian 'Universal Grammar' which has been shown to be valid only for the Indo-European language group. It definitely won't work for Asian languages without substantial modification. I don't know if any clever linguist has attempted such modification; it would be fascinating to read the result if they had.
Interesting thought Ian, and I start to enjoy learning from you opinions. I am not sufficiently equipped enough to challenge your idea about Transformational Grammar and I don't see a sense in challenging it. I am using NLP in English but I am also pretty sure that you can apply NLP, probably, with some modification, in Asian languages. I know that there are NLP schools in Hong Kong that teach NLP in Chinese. I don't speak or read Chinese but was always fascinated by the idea that beliefs and sentence contructions can be challenged in any language. It is a matter of curiosity and understanding of the process, I believe (my belief :)) that counts.
And if you look at how people in different cultures still access their mind with "eye accessing", there is a strong base to belief that NLP is useful in any context. In the end, we are all humans.
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