Does NLP Create Long Lasting Results? - from NLP Trainer Dr. Matt Video Lecture | Neuro-Linguistic Programming: A Practical Hands-on Course - Personal Learning

a question that I get quite often is
does NLP create long lasting change in
fact in the early days of NLP they would
see such dramatic results almost
instantaneously it was bizarre with
mapping across it's something where you
take a picture in your mind and you map
it across to something that you dislike
for example and you would see this
immediate reaction and the early
trainers the early researchers in the
beginning of NLP would sit there and go
look at this change look at this shift
some people as they would go down the
road that shift would last forever and
other people it would kind of begin to
backtrack a little bit and in some
circles some people said NLP seems to be
a quick fix but doesn't have that long
lasting change so here's the answer the
question does NLP produce long lasting
change there are certain factors that
need to be taken into account as to
whether or not change will stick and
occur and take place and then move all
the way out into the future there's two
things I want to address one is
something we teach called the three
requisites for change in order to create
long lasting change the first thing you
have to do is you have to clear out the
old baggage you got to let go of any of
the negative emotions limiting decisions
programming that would get in your way
you also have to have a solid goal for
the future that's why we spend so much
time in our trainings on goal setting
and also how do you let go of those
things the second thing that you need to
do is you need to take action because
look we can sit around all day and
change things in our mind but if we
don't get up off the couch and go do
something the change isn't going to
stick because you're literally saying to
your unconscious mind yeah all that work
that we did in my mind that was great
but it doesn't account for anything the
third thing is is that once you're on
the path and you're taking action you
have to learn how to maintain your focus
you have to learn how to hone that focus
in like a laser beam and go for what it
is that you want to do the other thing
that I need to address is that you have
to have some sort of technique to get to
the root cause one of the things that
was missing in the early days of NLP was
a specific approach to digging up that
root cause kind of like a weed the weeds
in my yard well you can come along and
chop off the top or you can get to the
root
pull it up and it's gone and we address
that we address how do you dig up that
root cause and completely pull that out
and get rid of it so that it is gone and
the second thing that you need to do is
have a thorough approach to
investigating the background of the
individual to make sure that this change
that they're achieving is ecological is
it good for them is it good for others
is it good for their entire community
classic example one of my wife's
cousin's actually started smoking
because in the military and again I have
a lot of respect for our military
personnel and people that are out there
putting their lives on the line a lot of
respect for them he literally said to me
on one of his vacations here in Hawaii
he said I actually had to take up
smoking because smokers get more breaks
what do you mean he said well if you're
a smoker they give you more 15-minute
breaks so can't you go out and take an
air brake and he went nope that's a
habit that I know specific techniques to
help him quit smoking instantaneously
and if he goes back into that
environment and he needs that time out
he's going to have to do something to
get that time out so you have to
understand the full psychology of change
in order to help people get long lasting
change so NLP by itself can produce long
lasting change NLP with specific
techniques of root cause elimination of
digging into the deeper issues those
three requisites for change can produce
long lasting change out into the future