To quote a hero of mine:
I closed the door of my hotel room behind me, it was like closing a chapter in the book of life.Simon Le Bon 1988 (God - b-side to Do You Believe In Shame)
That's what it felt like when I left the learning environment. Such a safe, comfy welcoming place. As I stepped out of the door, I'm sure that I was walking about 3" taller than I did before.
I'd just spent 6 months of precious time with a group of 8 and a half people (one was only there half the time), sharing my innermost thoughts, hearing theirs, walking through more exercises than I could shake a stick at. It had been great to push my map out........
Hang on, does that phrase mean anything to you? It didn't when I started.
Let me explain.
As human beings, we can never
know reality. We can only know our perceptions of reality. We experience
and respond to the world around us primarily through our senses. It is our maps of reality
that determine how we behave and that give those behaviors meaning, not
reality itself. It is generally not reality that limits us or empowers
us, but rather our map of reality.
Make sense?
If it doesn't, think of it like this. If you stood on a hill looking around the countryside, and there was someone else stood on a hill about 500 meters away, their view would be different.
Its the same in life, your view is just that, your view. NLP helps you make sense of that, and helps you understand why its that way.
