NLP was built upon some powerful but simple principles
Outcome Orientation
What do you want to achieve
Sensory Acuity
How do you know when you are on track, how will you know when you have acheived your outcome
Behavioural Flexibility
Have the flexibility to adjust what you are doing in order to ensure the probability of a successful outcome.
Outcome Orientation
- The outcome should be stated in the positive, what you want rather than what you don't want
- The outcome should be started and maintained by self.
- The outcome should be stated in sensory based language. How will you know when you have acheived your outcome, specifically, what will you see, hear, feel etc.
- The Outcome should be ecologically sound.
Sensory Acuity
What do you notice within your sensory fields; seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, taste; that tell you that you are on track to attaining your outcome, or not as the case maybe.
In NLP the sensory fields are generally referred to as VAKOGand also referred to as a 4tuple.
Visual = Seeing
Auditory = Hearing
Kinaesthetic = Feelings; these can be either 'Affective', emotions; or, 'Sensory', touch, pain, heat cold etc.
Olfactory = Smell
Gustatory = Taste
These together are known as the 4Tuple (4 because the Olfactory is linked to the gustatory as a unit).
Behavioural Flexibility
Having decided on an outcome, we rely on our sensory acuity to tell us when we are on track. If we are off track then we need the behavioural flexibility to change what we are doing until it works. "If what you are doing isn't working, do something else, anything else until you get the response you desire. When a plane sets out to fly to a particular destination, it will inevitably have to deal with cross winds of different speed, intensity and direction. In order to arive at it's destination, it will inevitably have to correct it's course several times to reach iy's destination,