Neurolinguistic Programming, NLP
2022: NLP is fascinating. While there is a lot of complicated and detailed structuring since it was developed, I've found that just a few of the early techniques of Bandler & Grinder are needed for powerful outcomes. Watch Richard Bandler's early YouTubes!
Here I'm tying the TEA state model, biological, and brain processes in with NLP perspectives and metaprograms, etc. Our brain is limited in an unlimited world so can process only so much. How we do that is to leave out most and simplify the processing of the results. As individuals, we know virtually nothing of our own feelings, emotions, processing, even so-called conscious processing. But we think [and are taught] that we do or can.
We can do better when we accept and integrate our two systems - the conscious and unconscious, our left- and right-brains. In the Reasoning discussions, this means going beyond thinking deduction is sufficient for understanding. It isn't. There is inductive reasoning which is generally accepted but there is also abductive reasoning. We need ALL, as appropriate, AND to continually check in with each style of thinking to hope to grasp complex systems such as ourselves, our societies, and our natural environment.
I'll come back to this. I've started by number the filters, F0, etc - earliest to latest filters. The mental filters, F2, are the mainly trained ones from upbringing and socialization [primarily schools and religion]. Mood, F3, has biological roots but could be as simple as being hungry in the afternoon when one's thinking fades, as anyone who gets hangry would understand. But this can be very subtle. Maybe someone got out of the wrong side of the bed!
So read it like this - inputs by E: biological means [eyes, ears, touch, etc], some early processing of that data but it's ONLY about what we are focussing on. See Selective Attention videos on YouTube if you think you see what's in front of you!!! These are my favourites to start with when teaching human behaviour. Shocks many [as it did me when I was tricked so easily].
Most of the F2 thinking is automatic but significantly it can be improved by Blue training until it's habitual [unconscious again]. The chunking process [abstraction] is not conscious but we have similar conscious processes like that.
We've mentioned Mood F3 but here we see it as tapped directly into our decision processes which is called Compare here. Some decision emerges [consciously or not] and our Action aka behaviour follows. Repeat, repeat, thousands of times a second.
All this filtering and partial processing is fed into invoked understandings of our environs and events. We have these 'remembered' maps and their associated software, the meta-programs, some very specific, some generalized that we use to understand and respond to what just happened.
