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NLP and Hypnotherapy: What’s The Difference?
April 13th, 2011 | 
Author: NLP and Hypnotherapy are very closely related and could be considered to come from the same ‘family’ of therapeutic approaches. In fact, if you are considering having hypnotherapy and are currently searching for a therapist, you will probably find that many hypnotherapists now-days, practice NLP to some level and conversely that most NLP practitioners who have completed certified training courses, will also be familiar with using hypnotic techniques during therapy sessions.
How Are These Therapies Similar?
Hypnotherapy utilises hypnotic techniques in order to bring about therapeutic change. Hypnotherapy enables a person to solve personal problems by bringing about a deeply relaxing state of mind. When the person is deeply relaxed this allows the unconscious part of the mind to use its resources to find solutions. It also allows the person to focus their attention completely on the therapists voice in order to follow the positive suggestions and guidance the therapist is making. In hypnotherapy this relaxed state is called trance. All people experience trance states on a daily basis. Trance simply refers to the experience of being really relaxed. It also involves focusing your attention so that it is highly selective. Reading a really good book and being completely absorbed in it, is an example.
Have you had the experience of being totally immersed in the characters of the book, being able to vividly imagine what they are like, whilst at the same time being able to ignore other noises and distractions going on around you? If so, you have experienced trance. Using your imagination and day-dreaming are other examples. Any time that you ‘go inside’ your own head you are in a light trance. If you’ve ever had the experience of having a problem that is constantly with you, so that it feels like all you have or all you are, is this problem, then you will know what it is like to experience a bad trance.
Richard Bandler (a computer scientist) and John Grinder (an associate professor in linguistics) developed NLP in the 1970’s. NLP was created after they spent time studying and modelling therapists who were considered to be extremely effective at getting good results. One of these therapists, was the Psychiatrist Milton Erickson. He was also an extremely talented hypnotherapist. Erikson’s style of indirect hypnotic suggestion and skilled use of ambigous and vague language patterns, has become known as Ericksonian hypnosis. Since NLP was developed after modelling Erickson, many NLP techniques involve Ericksonian hypnotic approaches. Like more traditional hypnotherapy, NLP works with the unconscious part of the mind in order to find solutions to problems. NLP therapists are also trained in using Milton Model language patterns in order to induce light trance states in clients. This is very useful at getting a problem moving when a person is stuck in a bad trance. Other hypnotic techniques that are common to NLP include metaphorical story telling and utilising the client’s imagination in order to bring about a highly focused state of attention during change techniques – a trance state.
How do NLP and Hypnotherapy Differ?
You will find that they are more similar then they are different. During hypnotherapy you are much more likely to be seated in a comfy chair, perhaps reclining with your eyes closed! During NLP you often get more involved with the techniques on a practical level, so you may be standing, or be required to do or say certain things related to overcoming your problem. You may still get to close you eyes and you will certainly get to use your imagination. NLP techniques utilise hypnotic elements but usually in a more subtle way, the NLP therapist will empower you to draw on resources you already have in order to bring about new options in thinking.
When you see an NLP therapist you will find they often use more traditional hypnotherapy techniques as well. At the end of your NLP session, after all the hard work, you will often get to recline back in your chair and experience relaxation so that you leave the therapists office feeling positive and ready to go on with your day.
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The Science Behind Neuro-Linguistic Programming
Neuro-Linguistic Programming or NLP comprises the top three dominant components involving the production of human experience. These are programming, language and neurology. Man’s neurological system dictates how the human body functions; language ascertains the way we communicate and interface with other humans; and, the human programming regulates the types of world models that we create. Hence, NLP characterizes the basic dynamics among the human mind (neuro) and the language humans speak (linguistic) and how the interaction of these two affects the human body and its behavior (programming).
NLP was founded in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, claiming that it is essential in seeking ways and means to assist people to live fuller, richer and better lives. According to Bandler and Grinder, NLP is a rapid and most effective type of psychological therapy, which can address a whole scope of problems that are likely to be encountered by psychologists, such as depression, phobias, psychosomatic illness, habit disorder and learning disorders. NLP also states that self-determination may be achieved by hurdling learned limitations, and puts emphasis on healthy functioning and general well-being. According to NLP’s founders, any can learn skills to enhance their effectiveness, both professionally and personally.
Who Uses NLP?
NLP has enjoyed popularity in the field of psychology but it remained ignored by traditional science due to issues like lack of empirical evidence, professional credibility needed to substantiate the effectiveness it claimed. Despite being popular, it hardly made its presence felt in the field of academic psychology and mainstream counseling and psychotherapy.
Nevertheless, NLP was appreciated by private psychotherapists – as well as hypnotists – with some claiming to have been trained and are practicing NLP. NLP, though, has made quite an impact on management training, the self-help industry and life coaching.
NLP is based on two basic pre-suppositions:
1. The Map Does Not Translate Into Territory. Because we are human, we do not exactly know what reality is. However, each of us perceives reality in different ways. Thus, we respond to stimuli surrounding us through sensory representational classifications. It is not reality itself which discerns how we behave but, rather, our individual neuro-linguistic charts of reality that does – and which gives our behavior its meaning. It is not exactly reality which empowers or limits us, but our maps or charts of reality.
2. Mind and Life Are Considered Systemic Processes. The processes occurring within a person and between other people and their milieu are systemic. Our universe, societies and minds form environment made up of complex systems along with sub-systems which interplay with and influence one another. It is impossible to thoroughly isolate a portion of the system from the remaining portions making up the system.
All the techniques and models of NLP are founded on the synthesis of these two fundamental principles. NLP says that ecology, wisdom and ethics do not occur directly from one specific map of the universe, because man is not of conceiving. Instead, the goal is make the richest map that acknowledges the ecology and systemic nature of human beings and the universe they live in. The people who turn out most effective are those who are able to conceive a map of the universe which permits them to understand and perceive the most number of perspectives and choices available to them.
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Stress Reduction NLP
Following on from our previous article, Reducing Stress – Key Success Factors, we will now look at practical ways in which you can reduce stress and anxiety, without recourse to drugs or other expensive and time consuming treatments.
These practical ways are based around NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming – and we must first understand what this is.
Neuro Linguistic Programming is a collection of techniques that allow us to understand how our minds work, and apply this knowledge so that we can achieve greater success in life and make positive changes to better ourselves.
It is unsurprising therefore that NLP has its basis in Psychology. NLP was founded by John Grinder and Richard Bandler back in the 1970s. Working together, they found a way to turn excellent behaviour into a process. They then sought to teach that process to others, so that anyone can learn excellent behaviour. Their work is based upon their study of eminent experts in human behaviour, including Virginia Satir, Gregory Bateson, Milton Erickson and Fritz Perls.
Bandler and Grinder initially studied these eminent therapists and found them to be excellent communicators – they all generated amazing changes with their clients purely through their conversations and the clever use of their language with their clients. This is where Bandler and Grindler came up with the term Neuro Linguistic Programming:
Neuro – How we use our nervous system to experience the world around us. All the information that enters into our brain using our five senses of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.
Linguistic – How we use language and other non-verbal communication systems to interpret this information – pictures (is it focussed and clear or hazy), sounds (is it a loud or quiet noise), touch (does it feel rough or smooth), smell (does it smell fresh as a daisy or is it an odour of decay), taste (does it taste too salty or too sweet).
Programming – Once we have interpreted all this information, we run programmes (often unconsciously) to get things done. We are not aware that we are running them; they are just part of our routine. For example, brushing our teeth twice a day, or washing our face, or our daily drive in to work. Using all the information in our mind we can find out what is in that programme. If there’s something that needs changing we can do so. For example if you can write presentations easily but get anxious about standing up and actually presenting, or you find it easy to talk to your boss informally but get nervous when you ask for a promotion or pay rise, or you play sports excellently for fun but always lose in competitions, NLP can help.
NLP teaches you how to change your unwanted actions into excellent actions and behaviours, so instead of feeling anxious about having to lead the client presentation and how you might mess this up, your behaviour would be to feel excited and motivated about how well you will be able to lead the client presentation.
NLP is formed around the concept that all behaviour is rooted in the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is the bit of the brain that is always functioning, and runs all our necessary programmes, even though we are not aware of this, like making sure we keep breathing when we are sleeping.
The unconscious mind stores all our memories, processes all our experiences, filters everything we feel, hear, see, taste and smell, and it attaches emotion to everything we do.
NLP shows us how to access our unconscious minds, and also provides techniques for making changes at the unconscious level. Because the change is unconscious, it is easier, faster and more permanent.
Consider this example – A few years ago I was standing in my friend’s garden with her, her husband and her two year old son, who was playing at her feet. A large cat suddenly jumped onto her garden wall. She screamed and grabbed her son. He instantly picked up on her fear and started crying. The cat stayed immobile on the wall. Her husband, annoyed that she had taught their son to be frightened of cats, took him from her, and tried to show him that the cat was friendly, but his son was terrified, even though the cat had not attacked anyone. He had learned, in an instant, to be afraid of cats.
Anxiety is a learnt behaviour. The brain does not differentiate between a wanted or unwanted behaviour. It just does things to get results. So, where you have learnt to feel anxious in a situation, you can unlearn that too.
You can also learn positive behaviours instantly. If you change your hair style and everyone tells you how great it looks, you automatically style it that way more often.
Every time you have a moment of realisation like this, your brain makes a new connection and you are learning.
And it is in this ability to use NLP techniques to unlearn unwanted behaviour, and learn desired behaviour, that one solution to anxiety lays.
Look out for the next article in this series shortly.
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Hypnosis and NLP
According to the book titled “Hypnosis for Change”, authored by Josie Hadley and Carol Staudacher: “….What is Hypnosis? Hypnosis has long been associated with the strange and mysterious, with side shows and faith healers; yet hypnosis isn’t mysterious or supernatural and we have all been in a hypnotic state literally thousands of times. You didn’t notice because it is such a natural state of mind. And the hypnotic state is natural for all humans and many animals…”
In definition, Hypnosis is a communication between conscious mind and the sub-conscious mind in trance state, or a sleep-like state. What can hypnosis do for you? Other than provide a fascinating new experience. The answer is that hypnosis can be used to improve your general functioning, to make you feel better mentally or physically.
Hypnosis is the bridge connects the conscious mind and the sub conscious mind. Before we go into how we can achieve the desire change by using hypnosis, we need to understand then level of the consciousness.
1st level – Alert: This is the normal intellectual functioning level; our mind is set to normal reflex & motor respond
2nd level – Light Trance: In this state, our body is in relaxation condition, breathing & pulse will become slow, and our attention will be focus in imagination activity.
3rd level – Moderate Trance: you are losing awareness of surrounding, but increasing awareness of internal function, such as: breathing, heart beat and so on.
4th level – Deep Trance: there is further reduction of activity and energy output in this state; normally you will fell limpness or stiffness of limb. The attention will be barrowed and increased suggestibility.
5th level Sleep – all the voluntary exercise is suspended in this level, severe reduction of absence of conscious though.
The 2nd to 4th level are the ones in which the change of behavior will occur and the one we can suggest any changes that we want. This is because when you are in light trance or deep trance state, your body and mind will experiencing a totally relaxation and sleeping feeling, it will reduce the activity of consciousness by which this is the filter of all possibility and suggestion. When the consciousness level goes down, it will increase the activity of sub-conscious mind, meaning to say the more creative of your mind to create the desire change.
The Milton Model is one of the Neuro-linguistic Programming or Neuro-linguistic (NLP) powerful techniques that co-created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder using the hypnotic techniques developed by Milton H. Erickson, who was well known for founding clinical hypnotherapy. Then they had published their 2 books on the Milton Model named “Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume I”in 1975 and “Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson Volume II” in 1977.
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The Background of Covert Hypnosis
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), or conversational hypnosis, is the cogitation of how we believe and experience our world around us. Apparently, the nature of our brains and awareness hasn’t become an exact scientific discipline quite up to now, so the main technique used by NLP is to form examples of how these things work. Included in this is conversational hypnosis.
The examples are then utilized to produce strategies for quickly altering thoughts, beliefs, and conducts that you might not want or require any longer, or even be aware of. The 2 individuals generally accredited with formulating NLP are Richard Bandler and John Grinder. Bandler was a psychological science student at the University of CA at Santa Cruz in 1970, when he connected with a group led by Grinder, then a affiliate professor of linguistics at the school.
The 2 men got to be acquaintances and started out working together, both molded by the Family Therapy work of Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls’ Gestalt Therapy, and Milton H. Erickson’s work. Bandler used his backdrop in math and computers and Grinder utilized his linguistics cognition to discover patterns and create models.
Both Bandler and Grinder were imprinted with the apparently sorcerers effect that therapists like Satir and Erickson had on their customers, and needed to see if they may break it down to a scientific level, so it may be more easily procreated by anybody, including conversational hypnosis.
Other like-minded individuals got together with Bandler and Grinder, and several of the techniques that are still utilized nowadays were built up, including anchoring, standardization, reframing, representational systems, and assorted personal behavioral change techniques as we; as conversational hypnosis.
Throughout the former seventies, Bandler and Grinder worked at fresh themes and tries out while giving workshops and authoring books. The Structure of Magic, Volumes one and two, Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, Volumes One and two, and Frogs Into Princes were all brought out during the subsequent 5 years.
A lot of these books are chiefly addressed to therapists needing to use hypnosis in their work, however anybody concerned in the subject will discover valuable data there.
By the early eighties Bandler and Grinder had each formulated their own themes about hypnosis and had parted company, each to go forward on his own. A few find that approximately this time hypnosis and NLP lost some of its initial creativeness and went in a temporary falling off, turning into more of a ceremonious band aid New Age therapy, commercialized to individuals with lots of revenue who desired second results.
There was more or less bickering among different sects over who “owned” NLP and conversational hypnosis and who advanced the “real” version. As time went by, NLP and conversational hypnosis grew in fame and acquired many different chains, till its present status as a kind of “open source” system, without any fundamental expert or single owner. This anarchical spirit contributes to its originative vim now.
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