We create the results that we get from the internal representations that we make in our head.

Our internal representations therefore are crucial to our success.  In communicating with someone the aim of the communication is to access the internal representations that the person is running and influence them. If that person is running bad trance, having a bad day in their internal representations how can we linguistically assist that choice such that they have got more opportunity for a good day?

How can we assist someone have a new neurological experience just by what we say?How do people express what is going on in their head?

You are no doubt familiar with the phrase “suppose that we do this.” What does suppose mean?  If I say to you, “suppose that we have some fun.” It puts forward the word “fun”. It suggests the word “fun” to your neurology.  That means to you that you are going to go and have some “fun.”

Even by using that word “suppose” I am already hooking you into what I am about to say next and by using the word “fun” you have to try “fun” on for size and you have a reference experience and you immediately assume that you are going to do it.

Presuppositions, then are what is presupposed in someones language. If we can detect first is what is presupposed in someones language by reason of what they are saying, we can then hear their reality as they currently experience it.

As we express ourselves we use presuppositions. We use the language of what is being presupposed in our reality. So in other words we can create rapport with peoples unwrapping of their experience. As we explore the unwrappings of their experience, so we can understand their model of the world better.  By having better understood their world, we can then explore it back to them in a different way, by wrapping our language in such a way that when they unwrap it in their heads a new way of thinking is being offered.

NLP Language Patterns

NLP is an art and science of personal excellence. The art is in the elegance by which we use our tools of linguistic expression, the more artful we are the elegant that we are and the more at rapport we are. The more we use our linguistic skill the more it is an art.  We change our language to change the way that the person is filtering their linguistic experience.

So the key to linguistic change is the ordering and sequence of the internal representations that take place inside you and your clients. Our linguistic ability is infinite and our capacity to positively influence others through our linguistic ability is infinite and it is what distinguishes us from the other mammals on earth.

Presuppositions then are what is assumed in a sentence. This is one of the ways by which we will create new neurological choice.  When we assume certain things in our sentence and they try those internal representations on in order to make sense of them, so we can start to change their internal representations, impact on their model of the world.

Another way of doing it is to be artfully vague. When Bandler and Grinder modelled Milton Erickson in developing NLP, they modelled this man who was so vague in his language that they had to keep themselves from going into trance. Everytime they tried on the model of the world they just went into trance.  So they had to study and study and study his language patterns. They did that until they understood that the way Erickson created the change that he did, was at a high level of abstraction, by making people go more and more into abstract in their thoughts.

They then modelled Virginia Satir who they noticed did exactly the opposite, she got them to be more and more specific about what was going on in their neurology. This is the source from which the NLP Meta Model came.

We can learn simply from the language patterns that people use, how people construct their model of reality, their deletions, distortions and generalisations. The NLP Hierarchy of Ideas is what connects these two different levels.  Ideas can be extremely specific or they can be extremely abstract and the more specific an idea becomes. The more concrete it becomes the more and more abstract an idea becomes, the less we can put it in a wheelbarrow.

So even by attending to the level of specificity we can start to influence peoples language.  Up up up to more and more abstract, more and more Milton Model. Down down down to more and more specific, more and more Virginia Satir more and more concrete.

Metaphorically we can use stories as part of our range of language skills a method by which to reconstruct change, give new meaning to peoples internal representations.  Metaphors are a fun and elegant way of assisting people have new neurological choices.

So this is a menu of linguistic tools by which to enable people to rejuvenate their thinking.

Learn in detail about how to use Presuppositions, Metaphors, the Milton Model and the Meta Model in order to create better results in your life and in order to assist others.  NLP training online in our E-Learning Centre