NLP Neuro linguistic Programming Strategies

Strategies for Neuro-linguistic Programming NLP

Everything that you do or plan to do falls into one of five key strategies.  According to NLP theory, all aspects of the world around you use one or a blend of these strategies, like making friends, legal negotiations and world peace.  (Older versions of NLP speak of three fundamental strategies, but the two additional strategies are derived from the ideas of the initial three.)

1. Memory.  You have your own way of inputting and accessing experience as to what it means to you.  Your mind will store data from your own personal experiences.  Later on, you will then retrieve the information from that memory and try to distinguish whether it is a good, neutral or bad one.  This is how you learn from mistakes or cherish past successes.  You are constantly retrieving the information you have stored to be used in decision-making, critical thinking and to find new approaches to a new situation.

2. Belief.  You compare your real experiences with your interpretation of them.  By looking at the things that actually happened in your life and aspiring to the ideals which you have set for yourself, you begin to convince yourself that you can achieve a higher state.  It is also called convincer strategy, since your belief will then lead you to try to be more successful than you are in your present reality.

3. Decision.  Basing on the second criteria of belief, you start to make options for yourself as to how you want to achieve your goals in life.  You assess and evaluate your past condition, your present situation and your future, then identify the choices that led you to become a better human being.  These choices will most likely be your guide in the other decisions you have to make to reach your ideal future.  This strategy is often used in accordance with the TOTE (Test-Operation-Test-Exit).  The TOTE is the general model of a strategy.

4. Motivation.  This strategy is a collaboration of the first three.  You access your memory to provide a baseline scenario of reality.  Your imagination or belief is then incorporated to set a comparison as to how greater things can be achieved.  You then create decisions to help you reach these greater things.  When these three combine, you will feel a powerful drive to achieve your goals.  This is called motivation.  Motivation differs with each individual, depending on their own personal experience and belief.

5. Learning.  This strategy incorporates memory, decision and motivation for you to learn faster and more efficiently.  You access your memory to provide you with necessary information relevant to the task at hand.  The decisions you made in the past will determine how much success or failure you had, in the sense that you will have learned to make wiser ones for the future.  Motivation allows you to avoid making the same mistake again, thus, paving the way to learning.  You will be more inclined to gain information based on what you know, what you have done, and what you plan to do.

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