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Dr. Richard Bandler Father of NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming Interview
Listen to Dr. Richard Bandler in this interview as he discusses Neuro Linguistic programming (NLP).
How do you make effective change in your life or in the life of someone else? The answer is with NLP. Neuro Linguistic Programming is a useful and powerful tool to make the change that you want happen ... quickly.
Richard Bandler / NLP Interview Part One
Richard Bandler joins our Top Ten BlogTalkRadio 'Self Help Radio Show' and Top 200 iTunes Podcast to discuss how NLP is used to help people succeed at things.
Richard Bandler is the co- creator and developer of NLP who conducts seminars and workshops and is the author of many books including his latest "The Secrets Of Being Happy"
He uses a unique blend of NLP, hypnosis and linguistics and is a top contributor in the world of Self Help.
Sherri Frost - What is NLP in a concise way that people can easily grasp?
Dr. Richard Bandler - Well, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is quite simply the name I gave to the technology that I developed starting about four decades ago. Neuro Linguistic Programming is really the study of the structure of subjectivity. It's a set of techniques that you use to model excellent behaviors.
Whereas psychology went in to try to find out what was wrong with people and where it started, it was a corrective science, Neuro Linguistic Programming is proactive.
What we do is study what people do subjectively when they succeed at things. Everything from learning to spell, to be a good baseball player or to be a happy person and we build models or algorithms of these things and teach other people how to do it.
The simplest example is spelling. When I worked with "educationally handicapped" kids, rather than trying to figure out how they got "educationally handicapped" or what went wrong, I went and found people who won spelling bees and found out exactly what they were doing, taught "educationally handicapped" kids to do exactly the same thing.
Which quite simply was to look at words and make pictures of them in their minds which was about sixteen inches big, so that the letters were roughly sixteen or eighteen inches in their mind so that they could read them forwards and backwards and copy them down.
When you teach kids to do that rather than to spell phonetically, which by the way can't even be spelled phonetically (it's a really ridiculous system), when you teach kids to make big pictures of words it's very easy for them to copy down. Plus, it doesn't matter how long the word is, it's just one picture.
Successful spellers do this in every language all over the face of the earth and unsuccessful spellers don't. When you model successful behaviors, whether they are a simple thing like spelling or a sophisticated things like being a good baseball player or somebody who studies well or somebody with a good memory, or somebody who lives their life happily, when you model success you can repeat success.
"When you model success you can repeat success."
The trouble with psychology is they focus on modeling failure and it doesn't really help people. It doesn't matter what happened in the past. What gives us the ability to go into the future is the structure of our neurology. Our neurology is designed to learn new things and to be adaptive. If you take advantage of the way our neurology works, you can change people quickly, permanently and very fast.
If you go on an archeological dig of their whole life to find out what went wrong you could do that for years and everything from psychoanalysis and psychology has been doing this for years.
Hypnotists on the other hand have always dealt with trying to get people over the edge of symptoms. So if somebody has phantom limb pain they hypnotize them and tell them to stop. They don't try to figure out which train hit them and how fast it was going at the time it happened.
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Richard Bandler joins our Top Ten BlogTalkRadio 'Self Help Radio Show' and Top 200 iTunes Podcast to discuss how NLP is used to help people succeed at things. 
