NLP Pre-Reading

Question 1

Which does NLP prefer…. content or process?

Answer 1

Process

Question 2

True or False: NLP focuses on WHY you do what you do

Answer 2

False. They believe the result comes from WHAT you were focusing on.

Question 3

What is everything in the world made of?

Answer 3

Energy

Question 4

Neurological Connection

Answer 4

Neurons in your brain make connections with each other to make you think, feel, and act

Question 5

What is the job of an NLP Practitioner?

Answer 5

Understanding how we accept limitations and how we create our own barriers within ourselves that block our unlimited potential and possibilities.

Identify the challenges and learn how to get past them to create the life you / your client wants!

Question 6

Can your mind affect your body?

Answer 6

Yes! The brain communicates with all parts of the body every second. This is the mind-body connection

Question 7

Why is it possible to live without having a brain?

Answer 7

Because the body compensates for its weak points. The functions of the brain were “reassigned”.

Same reason why blind people have a better sense of touch and smell - they need to adjust and adapt in order to survive.

Question 8

Can you change your brain even as an adult?

Answer 8

Yes! You can amend your brain as long as you have the right mindset and beliefs. Anything is possible.

Question 9

Brain Plasticity

Answer 9

When your brain makes new neural-pathways - makes new connections and retracting the old ones.

Question 10

Are thoughts imaginary?

Answer 10

NO! Thoughts are very real - made of energy (bioelectrical and biochemical impulses)

They are the most potent energy we know of!

Question 11

How do we create our own reality?

Answer 11

1 - Experience
2- Meaning Making
3 - Feeling Making
4- Feedback

Question 12

Create our own reality - Experience

Answer 12

Sensory Data - See, Touch, Hear, Smell, Taste

Question 13

Create our own reality - Meaning Making

Answer 13

Delete, Distort, Generalize - Driving Forces, Rules, Personality, Internal Evaluator

Question 14

Create our own reality - Feeling Making

Answer 14

My Body + My iReality = My State

Emotion is fuel for action

There are natural ways to change how we feel: what we put in our body, physical activity, change meaning making process

Question 15

Create our own reality - Feedback

Answer 15

My Behavior (conscious, unconscious) —> My Results (outputs of life)

Important to create clarity around the meaning of the outputs we produce

Question 16

Meaning Making - Delete

Answer 16

What the brain perceives as important stays, everything else goes

Question 17

Meaning Making - Distort

Answer 17

Filing system for your brain. Qualification criteria for each folder is determined by your personality and your personal rules, values, belief systems, preferences, etc

Question 18

Meaning Making - Generalize

Answer 18

Generalizing is more efficient and saves energy - even though it’s not the best for us all the time

Question 19

Presuppositions of NLP

Answer 19

1 - Respect others’ model of the world
2 - Behavior and Change are to be evaluated in terms of Context and Ecology
3 - Resistence in a Client is a sign of Lack of Rapport
4 - People are NOT their behavior
5 - Everyone is doing their best with the resources they have available
6 - Calibrate on behavior
7 - The Map is NOT the Territory
8 - You’re in charge of your Mind, and therefore your Results
9 - People have all the Resources they Need to Succeed
10 - All Procedures should increase Wholeness
11 - There is ONLY Feedback, no failure
12 - You are 100% Responsible for your Communication
13 - The Law of Requisite Variety
14 - All Procedures are Designed to Increase Choice
15 - All Behavior is Designed to either Seek Pleasure or Avoid Pain

Question 20

Reticular Activation System (RAS)

Answer 20

How you sense and process information: by deleting, distorting, and generalizing

Question 21

Psycho-Cybernetic Mechanism (PCM)

Answer 21

Designed to keep you in your comfort zone at all costs.

The body loves efficiency, thus, comfort. Breaking out of the comfort zone leaves you vulnerable and at risk, which the body and mind doesn’t like

Question 22

Amygdala

Answer 22

Purpose is to sense leaving the comfort zone and trigger stress hormones to bring you back.

Right-hand man of the PCM

Question 23

Temporal Memories

Answer 23

Memories stored in relationship to time; chronological manner / sequence of events

Question 24

Atemporal Memories

Answer 24

Memories unrelated to time: learning a language, etc

Question 25

Where do emotions come from?

Answer 25

The Conditioned Mind starts the process by linking senses with meanings and the hypothalamus produces matching chemicals that impact all cells in your body The heart processes emotions

Question 26

How do your memories get organized?

Answer 26

Also by your Conditioned Mind. Links all happy memories together, etc

Question 27

Why do we repress unresolved memories?

Answer 27

Conditioned Mind does this to protect you. Dealing with negative emotions and memories constantly would be unbearable. Burying these emotions take up space, but the Conditioned Mind will bring them to the surface when it feels you are ready to resolve it so it can let these emotions go

Question 28

What is the purpose of the Conditioned Mind?

Answer 28

The Conditioned Mind has the blueprint for your body to function, heal, and maintain PERFECTLY. Preserving the integrity of the body is its #1 priority, and is control of all energy in your body It needs consistent, clear instructions to work at its best

Question 29

Instincts vs Habits

Answer 29

Instincts are naturally installed Habits are learned over time, usually taking lots of repetitions NLP Techniques can help change your strategy / patterns, thus installing a new habit without many reps at all.

Question 30

Wholeness

Answer 30

Conditioned mind doesn't need parts. Fewer the parts, less likely for incongruence. Being whole = completely congruent

Question 31

Symbols

Answer 31

Symbols are liked and used by the Conditioned Mind, although interpreted in its very own unique way. Each Conditioned Mind may interpret symbols (situations, environments, etc) differently, but they are all accurate bc it is left up for interpretation.

Question 32

Does Not Process Negatives

Answer 32

Exactly why we don't respond well to "Don't eat junk food" We hear "eat junk food" Need to change the vocabulary to better get the message across "Eat healthy food" is much more effective way to cause actual change

Question 33

Functions of your Mind

Answer 33

Reason - deductive (benefit you Y-N) & inductive reasoning (product of your environment, only accept and pass along ideas) Will - energy to keep us moving forward Imagination - make sense of the world; mental images Memory - short term (electrical) long term (chemical) Intuition - inner feeling before you think; vibes you pick up Perception - see the world only as we have been conditioned to see it as. We don't see the world for what it really is

Question 34

7 Natural Laws

Answer 34

``` 1 - Law of Vibration and Attraction 2 - Everything is Energy 3 - Law of Continuous Transformation of Energy 4 - Law of Polarity 5 - Law of Rhythm 6 - Law of Relativity 7 - Law of Cause and Effect ```