//NLP Communication


What is NLP Communication?

NLP is all about communication, whether with other people around you or with yourself.  Understanding yourself and why you do what you do is a fundamental part of neurolinguistic programming and a model of communication known quite simply as the NLP Communication Model has been put together to explain what happens when we are out in the wide world experiencing life.

 

How much information can we take in?

We are bombarded with information in many different formats on a daily basis.  Someone who had rather too much time on his hands worked out (but don't ask me how) just how much information that is.  He reckoned we are subject to 2 million bits of information per second.  That's alot of information.  He also went on to establish that humans are only capable of absorbing 134 bits of information per second.  So what happens to the rest of it?

 

NLP Filters

Because there is simply too much information in our environment we use filters to:

          Delete - everything we consider to be irrelevant or of no use to us

          Distort - so that things fit in with our view of how things are

          Generalise - so that we can make sense of similar situations and experiences

 

The effect of filters

Once we have filtered the bits we want we make an internal representation of that information.  Depending on whether that's a positive or negative representation it affects the state we are in and also our physiology.  Put all of this together and it will generate a behaviour.

 

The nlp solution to communicating with yourself

Once you realise that you distort, delete and generalise information you can understand the reasons you behave in the way that you do. It is the way that we filter what goes on around us that determines our state, physiology and internal representations and subsequently creates a certain behaviour.  If you have a pattern of behaviour you are not happy with but don't understand why you do it, a quick look at the way you filter information can have a big impact.  A simple shift in physiology, a change in state or a different internal representation of the situation will generate a different behaviour.

 

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