NLP™, or Neuro Linguistic Programming™, is the art and science that can be described in a nutshell, as an "attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques."

• Introduction

First, the attitude of NLP™ is one of curiosity and experimentation.

Secondly, the methodology is modeling, which is the process of duplicating excellent behavior and changing that which does not work.

Another person's behavior can be duplicated by studying what that person does inside their head (language, values, beliefs, filters, programs, etc.) to achieve results.

NLP™ was initially created in 1975 by Dr. Richard Bandler and John Grinder, who began modeling and duplicating the "magical results" of a few top communicators and therapists.

Some of the first people to be studied included Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, gestalt therapist Fritz Perls and family therapist Virginia Satir.

Since then, many others have contributed to the growth and development of the NLP™ field. Including sale people, sportsman, artisits and musicians to mention a few, the collection of techniques or programs created through this modeling is what is commonly known as NLP™.

Today, NLP™ is widely used in business to improve management, sales and achievement/performance, inter-personal skills; in education to better understand learning styles, develop rapport with students and parents and to aid in motivation; and of course, NLP™ is a profound set of tools for personal development.

Sure you can surf the Internet! And we know you know computers! ........ But what about your mind?

NLP™ techniques and processes help us to understand ourselves and others, and to produce new, and more effective ways to be.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ is a behavioral technology, which simply means that it is a set of guiding principles, attitudes, and techniques about your life behaviors, and not a removed, scientific theory.

It allows you to change, adopt or eliminate behaviors, as you choose, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional, and physical states. So you can be happy all the time if you choose to..

With NLP™, you learn how to learn and grow from every single experience, thus increasing your ability to make better choices, and create a better quality of life. NLP™ is a very powerful technology based on your ability to produce desired results, thus allowing you to become proficient at creating your future! In the end it is not a lot different from understanding how to program a computer -- your own inner bio-computer.

If you understand computers, you already understand how NLP™ works! Computers are about man-machine interface. NLP™ is about mind-body connections. The entire process is very similar!

Maybe it's time to learn about your own personal computer -- your mind!