The NLP Principles. The key suppositions, or principles, of NLP.

Why not try an experiment? Act as if all of these are true, and see what happens in your dealings with people, and to your attitudes...

1. The meaning of your communication is the response you get.
2. In any interaction the person with the greatest behavioural flexibility has most influence on the outcome.
3. All human behaviour has a structure and results from how a person uses their representational systems.
4. There is a solution to every problem.
5. Meet people in their own unique model of the world.
6. If one human can do something then, potentially, anyone can.
7. The map is not the territory - people interact with their internal maps of the world rather than with pure, sensory-based, input.
8. People have all the resources they need even if they do not currently have access to these resources.
9. Positive self worth is always held constant. People are not their behaviours - every behaviour is/was a means of fulfilling a positive intention.
10. In any situation a person makes the best choice with the resources currently available to them.
11. We can redefine mistakes as feedback. Change what you are doing if what you are doing is not working.
12. NLP is a model rather then a theory — and it is the study of subjective experience.
13. NLP is a generative rather than a repair model - it emphasises finding solutions rather than analysing causes.
14. Always add choices - never take them away.
15. Mind and body are part of the one system - and external behaviour is the result of internal behaviour.
16. Conscious mind capacity is very limited - supposedly to around 5-9 chunks of information.