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NLP practioner
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Part 2
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A NeuroLIinguistic programmer's qualities
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What are the qualities a good neurolinguistic programmer must have?
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if in the previous chapter we saw the communication preconditions,
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in this one we'll see the qualities.
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The first fundamental quality
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follows one of the preconditions we saw before
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that is THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY
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The first and greatest wuality of a good neuro linguistic programmer
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as well as a good communicator
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as well as a good coach
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As coach I mean the one who, in the common exception of the word,
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is a trainer.
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So who trains mentally and who
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in theory should have already gone beyond given things
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so the first thing a coach must do, or a neuro linguistic programmer
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or whoever he/she it
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must understand and become aware that your map is different from mine, from any other person's in the world.
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What does this mean?
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It means that all the experienced you've had in your life
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since your conception, not even your birth, but since your conception to now
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have become filters which filter the outside reality
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to make it become the reality represented insiede you.
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If you ever saw a camera, a reflex one to which you can add lens or filters
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or colours, or anything else
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it is like you as you bear, or rather, as soon as you are conceived
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they put this camera in your hand
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so the reality you take from the outside
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which pass through the lens is what you really see.
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Then, we'll udnerstand better what this means
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as the things happen
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like a trauma because your parents didn't want you
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this creates you a new filter already
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the world does not accept me
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you add another filter because maybe you parents beat you later
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so the world is violent
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and so forth...
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thoughts, emotions, traumas, events becoming filters, colours
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and many other things that somehow change the reality perception
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your reality perception will absolutely be different from mine
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it's like as... the classical example I maje is this one:
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imagine we both live in Rome
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but I go around by car and you go around by bus
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bus or subway
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what happens? My references are streets and monuments,
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your references are the bus stops and the subway platforms.
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we have to fix an appointment:
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it's a mess, why?
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my map is different from yours.
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so I'll tell you "let's see next to
the Olimpico movie theatre"
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I don't even now if it exists.
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And you'll tell me : "Olimpico movie theatre?
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Where's the Olimpico movie theatre?"
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What's the Giulio Agricola subway platform?
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Giulio Agricola Subway? don't know.
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no, come one, in front of the shopping centre, the towers' one.
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towers shopping centre?
but the one near to the terminal 31?
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termina, which bus? don't know, come one, a little ahead where there is that restaurant where you can eat fish
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we could go on like this endlessly
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until one of the two takes his map
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and overlpas it to the other's map
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so I should take my mental map of the monuments
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or sights, overlap it to your bus map
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and see where that movie theatre is.
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next to the Tuscolana platform, good. tuscolana subway platform
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and so we can meet.
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this is a very meaningful metaphor
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because if I don't understand which map is yours
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I can't ever enter your mind and help you,
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I can't ever understand your experience
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and if you think about it, the most of discussions or relationship problems
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occurs because we often say the same things
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I mean, we talk about the same things but in different ways.
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here's an example:
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two friends who are lifelong friends
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but one of them is sure about this:
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my best friend is who wouldn't ever wake me up at night, no matter what happens
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the other one thinks: my best friend is the one who if I get a flat at 3 am,
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I call him and he comes to me.
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now, they are best friends each other
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what happens if, by mistake, one of them gets a flat at 3 am?
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their friendship breaks up!
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simply because they both said to be best friends
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but they didn't know the maps of each other
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so according to me, the friendship is a thing, for you the friendship is another thing
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these two maps do not overlap, so they fight.
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and this usually occurs in the man-woman relationships,
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the job relationships, and probably in all relationships
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remember that the words, experiences, movements always come from those filters we talked about before.
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so I don't know your filters, but I know,
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when I start a relationship, get in touch with you,
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your actions,
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and I judge your actions, usually, or interpret your actions
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based on my filters which are completely different from yours.
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so we both can talk freely about family, money, sex,
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anything but I don't know what this can mean to you,
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and you don't know what this means to me.
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but we are... and this is abig problem in our society which doesn't know these things
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we are absolutely sure that what I have in my mind is exactly the same for all the others
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and starting from this principle, we get angry because the others don't understand us,
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but actually it just takes... and for a good neurolinguistic programmer is the first thing to do,
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is understanding that the other person's map is not our map
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so what we have in our head is not important
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but we have to understand the other person's map.
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regularly, when I talk about these things, someone raises his hand and tells me...
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in video this doesn't happen but I am sure that someone of you
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now may think:
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"well, this is like you demean to the other person!
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no.
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it's like to understand the other person.
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because the second quality of a good neuro linguistic programmer
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is taking off his/her pride inside the communication
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because until I have the principle to not demean myself to him/her,
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it's him/her who has to understand.
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but in this case you become a communication expert
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and you have to understand, you don't have to demean yourself, but you have to understand the other
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and when you'll understant the other people,
you can lead them
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somehow, you can create
a valid communication for your goals
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I don't know which your goals are
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remember the NLP is a toolbox
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someone often talks about the NLP in a negatively
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it's something to manipulate, it's something to sell
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NLP is a toolbos, so if I teach you to use a knife
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if you use this knife to cut the bread and make a sandwich to feed a famished
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or you use this knife to kill someone
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I taught you to use the knife
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then it's your ethics which will decide
how to use it, this is the NLP!
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they are tools.
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when you know how your mind works,
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it's you who decide what to do with it.
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sure you can manipulate, certainly,
but it's what it's done to you every day
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by TV, politicians, and everything around you
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so it's also a way to protect you
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and understand how ads posters, supermarkets planning, what they tell you in politics,
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what they tell you on tv. they often... most of all the ads. it's very fun
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they use NLP techniques
which are nothing but of our mind working
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to attract your attention, to install something in order that you'll see it in the supermarket
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you don't even why but you buy a good rather than another one
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because you are sure, and you don't know why you are sure about it
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that if you buy that, your dress will be whiter as most as it can
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etc etc
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these things are inside your mind but you don't know why but someone put them in it
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how? by using techniques you are going to learn!
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so how you'll use them, how you'll use these tools
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will exclusively depend on your ethics.
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My task is giving them to you.
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Sure, you can teach them to children, or use them to give them to your children
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to raise them without negativity or negative thoughts perhaps
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or fears, or limitations, or you can use them to sell more
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to manipulate people, or who knows what
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I repeat, the NLP is just tools, what you are going to do with them depends only on you.
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so to get in touch with another person
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you have to manage to stay outside your ego
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because until your ego will say you are better than someone else and you won't demean yourself,
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or will say that it's the other person who has to understand, not you
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this won't ever let you to enter the other person's map.
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another fundamental thing is that:
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you don't discover the map only inside the other person,
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therefore we don't learn the NLP only to communicate with another person
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but most of all
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and first of all to communicate with ourselves
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because we are the first who don't know our map
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but we act accordingly.
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Starting to know our map
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and understanding for which reason a given word said by a given person makes me jump,
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gets me angry or if my mother tells me something I react like this
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and I don't even know why, because I can't control it
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if my boss treats me in a given way my blood goes to my head
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and who knows what
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if I receive a bill, I feel bad for two days,
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if sometims I wake up, the weather is bad and I am in a bad mood
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you have a range of automatic behaviours,
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remember that 95% of these behaviours
are completely automatic
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so they are driven by a part of you which has some maps
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that have been created through that filters range
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since you had been conceived to today
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and works completely automatically
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just like when you take driving lessons
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the first times you are forced to pay attention
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then after your behaviours and the teaching became inconscious
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everything is automatic
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and today you drive peacefully
while you talk on the phone
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while you make up or while who knows what
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and your mind automatically runs these behaviours
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so much that it will happen to you many time that if you drive your car
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if you are used to always take the same road
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from your house to your office and one day instead of coming back home
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from the office you have to go to a friend of yours
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but you are lost in thought, automatically your mind will lead you at home
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because automatically your mind does what it has always done
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what it has been trained to,
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what for which those filters have been put in
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and if you don't give it a conscious order
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it will do what it has always done: it makes you do the usual road.
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and probably this happened to you.
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so in the 95% of cases your behaviours are completely unconscious
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we have to understand our map
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first of all
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to understand how these behaviours have been created
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and how to change them if we don't like them
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this obviously works for fears, phobias, limitations, blocks, everything
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as we go along, we'll learn how a maps is created
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and obviously our and the others' maps
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so when we'll learn how our mind works,
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we could change the things in it
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obviously we'll learn how the others' mind works
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and we could choose according to our ethics
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how to use these tools to... use them with the other people
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according to our goals, which I hope will be ethical for you watching this video.
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But how can we enter another person's map?
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or how can we discover our map?
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well, one of the easiest things is coming back to the other principle
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we saw before in the previous chapter which said:
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two ears - two eyes - one mouth
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that is listening, watching and then, if necessary, talking.
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but when you'll be skilled, you'll just need to watch with given rules
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you'll learn and to listen with given rules you'll learn
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and only watching and listening will show you inside the person
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all a range of features which show you the important parts of his/her map
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when you'll understand the map, you can adjust your map to his or hers
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in order that the communciation will be valid and aimed at a positive goal.
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let's remember another fundamental thing
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the main goal of the NLP is producing rapports
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that is at an unsconscious level, we always talk about the communication with the others but it worths also with the communciation with ourselves
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because very often it's as we had someone behind us we don't get along with
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so often we feel like we can't do things
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I would like to do some things but something blocks me
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this thing blocking me is someone inside
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we don't see it as a strange entity, simply a sort of a inner child
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a sort of a person inside of us who hasn't grown up in a given way
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and that for some given reasons has chosen to put given filters in.
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Knowing this person, and knowing the person who is outside,
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is pretty easy, you have just to listen to it and be able to watch.
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what? we'll learn it in the next chapters
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so the map is pretty simple to discover when we know what to watch
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but a quality a neurolinguistic programmer must have
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is being able to listen and watch
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and this is linked to the need of being outside our ego
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because if we stay in our ego
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while a person talks,
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we talk us inside, we already thing about what we have to say
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without listening to the other we lose all those details
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the person giving us consciously or unconsciously
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in thousands ways you'll learn
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and that could be important to us to create an effective communication with the other
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I repeat: the same thing happens with ourselves
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it's a little bit harder watching ourselves from the outside but we can do that
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so remember the map in the neurolinguistic program...
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remember the map and the neuro linguistic program tells us:
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it comes from a programming so from things happened in the past
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and that has programmed our neuro, our mind
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and expresses itself through the linguistic
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as linguistic we mean not only what we say with words
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but the whole communciation, so the verbal and the paraverbal, then we'll learn what this means
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and the non-verbal
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so watching our or the others' communication
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we could understand how this external communication shows our internal map
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and we'll learn many things in the next chapters
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another quality a good neuro-linguistic programmer,
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a good communicatior and a good coach should have
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is becoming a juggler with words.
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because remember that our words can influence
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the other person's experience at any level
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for better or worse of course.
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but it depend on your ethics
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so your ethics is important
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when I can play with words
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and I can put them in the right place, in the right moment, in the right way,
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with the right tone, it doesn't take much to change an experience
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or reach a goal
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whatever the goal is.
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I repeat, it can be selling, conquering, changing something, manipulating, or helping a person
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or healing, or getting them over a limit, or a phobia, abything, when you know the map
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you know how given things work in your mind,
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when you can play with the words and with the linguistics
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you can use the right sentence in the right place, in the right moment
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but, I repeat, this is quality you get with the experience
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I remind you, as I sais in the previous chapter,
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the NLP is a range of tools, it's true.
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but your experience makes the actual difference.
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So, if you wathc these videos, you closed them
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and you do nothing but waiting for the next or watching the next one,
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without doing your exercises I suggest you to do at home
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and you don't continue to constantly do the exercises I suggest you to do outside
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and instead of doing this
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you go to the next videos and watch them until the end
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and you don't do the exercises
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well, it's useless: you're wasting your time!
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you're wasating your time listening to things that won't help you
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so you'll have a perfectly useless knowledge: it's as you read a book
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while if you apply all this
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you'll start licence driving
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so today and in the next chapter, we'll learn the representational systems
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well, to make this unconscious you'll have to apply it over and over again
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and apply it n tims, just like when you learn how to drive your car you had to drive and drive and drive...
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first, you learned how to make the gear change unconscious,
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then you learned how to make clutch unconscious,
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then the indicators, so little by little, you turned conscious behaviours into unconscious ones
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but you had to do n drives
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these n drives are nothing but many, many, many exercises
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and it's important that you go to the next exercise
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or to the next chapter only when you became perfectly able
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to apply what I am going to learn you in the pervious chapter.
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Because if you didn't become able, if you didn't understand it, it doesn't become automatic to you
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I'll add you some things in the next chapter
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so you'll have to do the first one and then the next one
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and it will always be more elaborate
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for a simple reason: because the conscious mind is limited
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so you can't handle more than a given number of information in an only moment
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that's why it is divided into chapters, and that's why it's made in batches
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I won't give you the whole course in one body
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because I already know that probably, many of those who will watch it
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could watch it all together
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and they would learn nothing.
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sincerely, if I have to simple give something that is the same thing as writing a book
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that you read and then you put it away
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I wouldn't even have wasted my time
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my goal is creating something different
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something that could help you and the others
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so in this perspective, I give you this quality, too: you have to learn as soon as possible
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to consciously apply everything I will teach you
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and most of all to become at the end of the path
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and at the end of your experience
a mere juggler with words
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so you'll learn to say little,
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remember: two eyes, two ears, one mouth
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so you speak once but when you speak you do it in precise and definite and incisive way
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the last wualities are the ability... as we go on,
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as you discover given techniques
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and functioning methods of your mind...
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the ability to understand and become aware of the powers soothed in our mind
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to realize that actually we can do much more than what we have been taught by far
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but why do you do this?
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first of all, for our part, because we can
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eliminate all the outside conditioning, that is
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we don't have to give nobody any more, outisde of us
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be it an event, an environment, a person, a boss, a partner,
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a mother, a father, we don't have to any of them
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the power to act and interfere on our mood
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and on our choices and actions
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what we don't have today
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because normally everyone has
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something resonating that somehow releases, that influences them
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sometimes, they are so unconscious that we are sure to do make the best choice for us
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then we discover we choose to do this because we don't want to feel guilty towards our parents
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or we do that because otherwise our girlfriend breaks up with us
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so there are a range of filters put during our life
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that somehow limit our free will.
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here's one of the most important quailities, and it's the first you have to achieve,
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is setting us free, understandin us first of all,
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so we have to observe ourselves, to know how to observe, to know how listen,
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how to understand what our map is and be able to change it according to our actual goals.
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after we'll have learned to understand ours, it will be easier
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to understand the others' ones, because you won't have to apply the things I taught you in some videos
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but simply you'll apply on the others what you did to you
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with a confidence level much different from the one you can have after watching a video.
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Now, after this video,
you could tell someone what you learned
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but when you do it, when you experience it and when you solved your problems
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you are telling anymore what someone else told you
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you are telling your experience
where nobody can interfere
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nobody can interrupt, nobody can object,
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because it's your experience. it's like this.
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that's why when often I asked what I do I don't consider myself to be a coach but a storyteller
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because I do nothing but telling my experience
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so i suggest you to create your own experience with all this first of all,
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then, only then, use it on the other goals you'll want.
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helping or anything else.
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After this, we can end this second chapter
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now you know what
the communication preconditions are
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what the qualities to have are
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we can go to the third chapter.
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also in this case, in this second opening chapter
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there's no specific exercises
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but now you are ready to go to the third chapter
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where we'll learn how our mind
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processes the information
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and therefore we'll understand in the next chapter
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how since the beginning of time, since the beginning of your life
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since the beginning of your conception, your mind,
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which was a mouldable sponge,
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has started to create those filters that today has become
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what we normally call "character"
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but we know very well that it is nothing but a range of interpretations
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of given experiences influenced by different things.
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Now I want to thank you for your attention
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during this second chapter and see you at the chapter number three!