Debug the programmes you don’t want

You have now covered all the main components that are involved in the way you communicate with yourself and others. The diagram on the next page shows how NLP puts it all together.

By generalising, deleting and distorting information, you create your own unique personal map of reality that you represent in your mind with imagery and sounds (smell and taste may also feature).

The result of this ‘internal representation of reality’ is a range of feelings. You have probably said to yourself on certain occasions, ‘I’m not in the right state of mind for this job right now’. That state of mind is actually a mind–body state, as the feelings responsible ...

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