Neuro Linguistic Programming is helping people fight mental and physical disorders. PRAPTI JAIN tells you how
The human brain and how it functions is perhaps the most fascinating of all. But once it is traumatised, it becomes difficult to bring it out from that phase. The recent development in the field of counselling is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) comes to the rescue today.
“The NLP, as the name suggests, is a way to communicate with the brain, both verbally as well as physically. Most of the time, the pains and issues that you face are actually an effect of your memories and belief systems. Through NLP we help to cure them all” says master practitioner Yogesh Verma who has been using this technique for last few years to transform himself and others.
With an alarming increase in a number of mental disorders, NLP is one of the most effective techniques to handle them. Some of the mental problems that NLP can resolve are stress issues, stage fright, nervousness, anxiety, fear, phobia, heavy mood swings or depression, suicidal tendencies, stammering and extreme psychological problems like bipolar disorders, autism and OCD. The NLP even holds the capacity to cure physical problems like cancer, thyroid and others.
“The NLP works all the way through your mind (mainly subconscious), belief system and representative system,” Shilpi Verma another master practitioner tells you.
“A memory or a bad memory which leaves behind an impact in the form of phobia, disease or any disorder is just the way how your mind has internally represented it to you. For example when a person drowns once, maybe during childhood or any phase of his life, then they fear going back into the water, or if the person is a swimmer, then h loses the confidence and panics in swimming pools. It happens just because of how the thought or the memory has been organised in your mind. Through NLP, we access those memories multiple times, changing the representative system of it and the rest your brain does the work.” she tells you.
Sometimes, memories are the worst form of torture. Quoting Dr John Grinder, the founder of NLP, Verma said: “The NLP is all about trial and error.” When a case comes to them, they never judge as to how they could resolve the issue. They just go to the core of the problem and understand where the issue lies.”
He tells you that when he and his wife (Shilpi) counsel their clients, the content is never important to them, instead, the thing that affects the client the most is how that thought has been organised in his mind. That is why there is a reason for your different attitude and behaviour and why people react differently in the same situation or why you procrastinate even when you know that you have no time to procrastinate. There is a reason why people are never calm during work or project presentations or why you have food cravings. All the reasons have only one answer: different representative systems and belief systems. By understanding your representative system, you can even decode the reason behind your actions and reactions,” Verma explains
He recalls how he came to know about NLP. “I was at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited when I came to know about it. Back then, some trainers used to visit us for the relaxation sessions. There I came to know about NLP and noticed some internal changes within me. I was more active and charged up, both physically and mentally. I got emotionally stable. I was able to achieve my goals more easily. My mind was learning more and more skills every day with more efficiency,” he tells you.
After learning about NLP and having attending courses, he changed his professional line from being in HAL to being a Master in NLP. “The trainers who trained us at HAL said that I had the potential to transform lives and help people out from their hardships. They offered me to join their course. They said that I can take it as a part-time job or an adventure as I was already being able to was able to help others with whatever I had learnt by then. This motivated me to opt for NLP courses,” he says.
Shilpi tells you how she didn’t believe in NLP, initially. But later, her husband convinced her to attend one of the practitioner programmes in Mumbai. “That is when I started believing in the technique. It was a five-day programme.Something happened in those five days. On day one I wanted to quit because they showed me the mirror to my true self which I didn’t want to see. It felt like, I never knew myself. The thing I thought about myself was all turning out to be fake — a mirage. In those five days, I started working on that internal Shilpi whom I came into terms with on the first day. I can say that from that day onwards, my journey of NLP started,” she tells you and adds that afterwards she enroled herself for the practitioner course from various different places and went for the masters course along with more different courses.
Verma shares how the founders of NLP stumbled upon the programme. “They studied the methods of the world’s top therapists, executives and anthropologists and came up with NLP. It is the study of excellent communication — both with your own self and with others. NLP is not just a set of tools and techniques, it is so much more than that. It is an attitude and a methodology of knowing how to achieve your goals and get results. It is the art and science of excellence and transformation, derived from studying how experts in different fields obtain their success,” Verma tells you.
The NLP, according to Verma, makes you actualise your potential. You are able to achieve what you really wanted to achieve. “In reality you never know your potential. You just build your beliefs thinking that you won’t be able to achieve anything higher or more than what you have. But, once you push your limits, you realise that you have been underestimating yourself. This is one of the ways how NLP helps you achieve your goals and be successful in your lives,” he says and tell you that these skills should be learned by everyone for self-development and to improve their effectiveness both personally and professionally.
