NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming

 

We are our thoughts.  You will always ‘act like’ the person you believe yourself to be.   Just take a moment to think about that.

 

Our thoughts start to be formed from around 3 years old. These are very tender years and as we go through our childhood our values and beliefs and behaviours are formed. We learn these from our experiences, things that we have seen, heard or felt. We link certain places with our memories. We even link some smells or tastes with memories. The smell of a certain brand of sun tan lotion always takes me back to being on a beach as a teenager!

 

Our brains are constantly processing information as well as regulating our bodies and reacting to any perceived danger. The sub-conscious mind is where we hold our memories and thoughts. We cannot physically get hold of our thoughts and look through them.

 

It’s not like when we have wardrobe clear out, looking for outfits that no longer fit us, things that don’t suit us anymore or have just gone out of fashion. It would actually be quite good if we could though, to be able to chuck away those behaviours and thoughts that no longer serve us. To have new beliefs and values. And sometimes wonder why we ever had that belief/dress in the first place!!