The NLP Perspective

If you've come to our pages from a background in NLP, then maybe, like us, you've felt that something deeper was missing in that field, as magic as it can be.

If you're new to NLP, you should have a look here.

Over many years we noticed that many of our fellow NLP students were either trying to overcome problems with themselves, or were seeking more control over other people. Both groups were coming from ego.

We thought about what processes might add compassion to their understanding of this young science.

The answer suddenly became apparent when we gave more time to our spiritual practice.

NLP, of course, is a codification of discoveries about how humans operate. The applications of the processes are inventions based on that understanding. But they're only another description of what some clever people have been doing for all history.

By using NLP's descriptions of how our brains work, we discovered we could shortcut the journey to religious understanding.

We'll go into this later, but the use of anchors and trance is ingrained in religious practise, of course.

What we're just beginning to realise is the way that working from a Zen perspective, we're getting startling new understandings of how NLP might work. To use NLP language, consider coming from your spiritual centre as an alternative to being in the third position, for example. Or the understandings of behaviour, of identity, of beliefs and values, that become apparent when you view them from a point of you being part of the universe, and not just caught in your body.

From an NLP point of view it's very exciting. And from the Zen point of view, we're acting from an area of immense space, of great distance from, and simultaneous intimacy with the human condition.

Buddha often talks about emptiness - we're encouraging you to think about your immense capacity for love and understanding.

Some of these ideas are explored in more depth here.