NLP Techniques to Change Your Life
There are hundreds of NLP Techniques or patterns that have been developed since the early 70's. Many are variations of the core techniques created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.
Bandler and Grinder modeled Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls and Milton Erickson and created the Meta model and Milton models. They used the work of Alfred Korzybski, Gregory Bateson and Paul Watzlawick to create them. The first NLP techniques evolved from the Meta and Milton models, which were originally language models for therapeutic change.
Techniques based on the major models and NLP foundations
- NLP Modeling
Discovering the patterns of excellence - Creating Metaphors
This technique is used for indirectly suggesting new strategies and resources to get to desired outcomes. - Eye Patterns, eye accessing cues or eye body language
This technique enables rapport and is also a vital part of NLP modeling - Representational Systems
The technique of noticing and using representational systems is used for rapport, NLP modeling and the development of hypnotic trance. It is a useful tool for problem solving and expanding our map of our world. - NLP Rapport
Building trust, understanding and agreement - Pattern Interrupt
Changing states. - State Elicitation
Is an important part of successful anchoring, modeling and managing or changing states - Well Formed Outcomes
This pattern is a major organizing pattern for NLP techniques overall.
NLP Reframing
Change the meaning to get changes of behavior
- Six Step Reframe
A powerful early technique for dealing with unwanted behaviors - Sleight of Mouth - Robert Dilts reframing for conversational belief change - based on his modeling of extraordinary people
- Mind Lines Michael Hall's extension of the Sleight of Mouth reframing patterns
NLP Anchoring Techniques
- Circle of excellence
Gathering powerful internal states and making them consciously available. - NLP Anchoring
Controlling emotional states and resources. - Triple Perspectives
Getting out of a stuck communication pattern or developing a more flexible attitude. - Visual Squash Anchoring Pattern
Freedom from negative associations - collapsing anchors or yucky parts.
NLP Submodality Techniques
- Mapping across.
Mapping across transfers the submodalities or elements of a particular state or context to another. - NLP Swish patterns.
- Threshold patterns
- The Compulsion Blowout technique
For behaviors or responses you feel forced to do - Last Straw Technique
To stop doing things that are not in your best interests
- The Compulsion Blowout technique
- The Godiva chocolate pattern.
- The ecstasy pattern.
- Laugh till you drop.
- TOTE strategies.
- Timeline therapy
Overcoming limiting decisions and negative emotions - Association dissociation
Both unwanted and an absence of emotion can cause difficulty - Phobia treatment pattern (or phobia cure)
Fast safe relief from phobias. Anthony Robbins popularized this technique on national television
Mental Imagery Techniques
Rehearsing and testing performance
- The New Behavior Generator
To gain skills needed for long term outcomes. - Future Pacing
For testing changes and anchoring resources to a context
