The working theories for NLP are the NLP Presuppositions  and although we don’t claim that they are 100% true, it turns out that if you act AS-IF they are true, wonderful results can be achieved. In fact, highly successful people are the most likely to use this way of thinking naturally in their everyday life. It works.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming is a name created by the originators of NLP, Richard Bandler and John Grinder. (One was a mathematician and one was a linguist, hence the complex-sounding name.)

NLP has been called a user’s manual for the human brain. NLP is a way of understanding human behavior that can facilitate powerful change. It works to help you overcome life problems and generate positive desired changes in a very simple and powerful way in a very short time.

Early NLP work focused on how the most respected therapists in their fields helped clients to make powerful changes in their lives. Their methods varied widely so it was not possible to cook-book how they worked. The genius of NLP is that it looked at the structure  of what they were doing, rather than the content, to discover the underlying key ingredients that sparked creative transformations.

 NLP has changed and evolved in the 30+ years since its inception. There are many ways to use this technology of mind, from helping to train salespeople to be more persuasive, to working with a client to discover his or her life mission and spiritual purpose.

NLP is a great adjunct therapy for overcoming fears, phobias, even allergies (which NLP defines as phobias of the immune system!).

Here are a few  of the NLP Presuppositions. These are statements that NLP does not declare to be "true", but it does propose that if you act "as-if" they are true, your life is highly likely to change for the better! Try them on and see how they feel.

The map is not the territory.
People make maps of their world. When we react to something, we are reacting to our inner maps, not to the world itself. Making adjustments to your inner map makes adjustments to your experience of reality.

There is no such thing as failure, only feedback.
Especially when you are new to something, failure is an important part of the learning process. In NLP, “Everything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.”

When what you are doing isn’t working, do something else.
…Anything else. Many of us get stuck doing the same thing over and over even when it doesn’t get our desired results. NLP has techniques to help you expand your behavioral choices. Speaking of which...

Choice is better than no choice.
Choice allows flexibility and the ability to see things from multiple points of view. Flexibility gives you a tremendous advantage. It allows you to control the quality of your own and others’ experience!