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Throughout history a small number of people have apparently been gifted with the ability to do ‘magic’ - whether it is in the realms of extraordinary physical and emotional endurance, creating world-changing new ideas or making vast amounts of money. Even now, these abilities are usually ascribed to talent, environmental advantages, or pure luck.
But when, in the 1970s, Information Scientist Dr Richard Bandler and Linguist John Grinder submitted some of the most effective and successful individuals of the time to deep study, they made a paradigm-shattering discovery of their own. All behaviour they found, had a structure - in other words, each individual unconsciously followed certain specific steps or strategies, including their linguistic skills, in order to achieve exceptional results.
Even more significantly, when these strategies were taught to others, the patterns of success could be replicated.
They called this new field Neuro-Linguistic Programming to signify the impact of mental information processing (Linguistic) on the human nervous system (Neuro-) and its predictable ability significantly to affect and alter habitual emotions, behaviours and responses (Programming).
As he continued to push the limits of these discoveries, Dr Bandler variously described NLP as “the study of excellence” and “an attitude followed by a methodology that leaves behind it a trail of techniques”.
Medical NLP has been founded on the principles and attitude of NLP, with the express intention of bringing excellence into the field of health care. It continues the tradition of modelling exceptional performance specifically with the aim of making widely available the systematic ‘magic’ of exceptional clinical performance.
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