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Introduction to NLP (neuro-linguistic programming)

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Introduction to NLP   NLP is a user manual for the brain If you bought a car or new gadget you would expect a manual. You may be able to guess how things work but that’s more trial and error.... That’s how we attempt to understand the brain..!!! Thankfully the NLP innovators have figured it all out and can help us. Why just become excellent by accident when you can do it quickly and easily and with more guarantee of success.   Brief history of NLP In the early 70’s Richard Bandler (a mathematician) and John Grindler (a Linguist) got together to examine each others work. This was at the University of California , Santa Cruz . They started to notice that certain people had what seemed to be an innate ability to do what they did so decided to model them. This started with Fritz Perls, the originator of Gestalt Therapy and Vaginia Satir the renowned family therapist. Later this expanded to the world renowned hypnotherapist Milton H Ericks