Dr.Abraham,
Dr A. Abraham a dermatologist-turned Linguistic propagator of the Neuro Linguistic Programming- a set of tools for better comprehension of human emotion and expressions and communication between individuals. NLP is, a science of personal and professional development of human mind, reducing the stress factor to the least minimum. we are dwelling in pressure an stress ridden times, in result, we are not 'living' but merely existing going through emotions of routine, mechanical, mesmerized by the vista of opportunities available through the practice of NLP,D. Abraham gave up his flourishing medical practice in UK turned to NLP as it means of unleashing a hidden human potential to optimal benefit evolving as a better more organized and productive individual in the process. He has evolved a unique methodology based on the principle of NLP which is the central them of the 'better you program.
So, what really is NLP?
Simply put it is like the user’s manual of the brain, which is like a One million GB neck top PC. It can process and store information including feelings and use that information to make decisions and solve problems. The one major difference is that it processes and edits this info and therefore the behavior or the outcome results from the edited version of reality and not actuality.
This amazing discovery proves that your experience and therefore your behaviour, is the result of movies that you produce in your mind and in changing how you thinkyou can change what you think you can dramatically transform the results you create in your life.
Back in the 70's, in the USA, a brilliant young mathematician, Richard Bandler, teamed up with a brilliant linguist, John Grinder to explore human perception and experience as they believed that there is no such thing as 'natural talent.'
People who were supposed to be gifted when asked how they had come by that gift said things like:
"Oh! I don't know, I guess I was just born with it..."
"It's intuitive..."
NLP shows how, in a way that it can be copied, adapted and acted upon to produce almost as good a result. Maybe not their ways yet, unique or even better in your own. This process became known as 'modeling', and is the fundamental skill which underpins all of the NLP tools.
The other thing to understand about NLP, and which sometimes gets lost in the huge amount of technical manuals and 'how to' books available, is that it is the outcome which is the most important part of what NLP can do. NLP can help you define and set a desired outcome and then make it part of your mind body system so that action results. This by making you experience the what you will see hear and feel when you have got the outcome at least in fantasy and as you start enjoying that, you will want it so badly that your brain will look for or discover any opportunity to make that possible.
The interesting fact is that the mind does not work on the principle that if you behave you will get candy but IMAGINE AS IF YOU ARE GETTING CANDY AND BEHAVIOUR WILL RESULT.
The tools are the stepping stones, but it is that crucial definition of outcome which is the difference that makes the difference.
Everything you experience is created twice - first in your mind, your internal representation and then in reality. The experiences you create are representative of your internal state, the way you think and the feeling your thoughts generate. When you have the tools to change your internal state, you will find that your external reality will change to match the new internal state. It's pretty simple and yet quite astounding and it is the “DIFFERENCE THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE”.