Abstracts Accepted

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP): A Gate Way To The Mind

Abstract:

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) works by changing the way we perceive and make meaning of the world we live in and how we understand our experiences. It explores the relationship between how we think? (Neuro), how we communicate? (Linguistic) and how our patterns of behaviour and emotions (programming) are. By studying these inter relationships, we essentially can, to an extent, predict the functioning of the mind. Through my paper I will try to explore how NLP works as a reprogrammer for the mind and thereby understand the functioning of the mind. In an attempt to explain the functioning of NLP, I will try to integrate it with brain functioning. For that I will consider certain implications from recent advancements in Cognitive Neurosciences such as mirror neurons. Finally I will consider the relevance and importance of conducting new researches to uncover the unexplored possibilities of NLP which may prove to be a potential tool in understanding  brain-mind relationship.

Key-Words: NLP; Cognitive Neuroscience; Mirror neurons; Mind.

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*Post-Graduate Student in MSc. Clinical & Counselling Psychology, School of Behavioural Sciences, Kannur University, Kannur Dist., Kerala State, India.
Email: Salmanchalikkara@gmail.com