NLP is one way of looking at, or filtering the world. There are different generations of NLP out there, each with their differences.

These are some of the Major Suppositions of NLP that I find interesting. Try them on and see how they fit. You are free to agree or disagree with any of them, after all, they are just a point of view. Perhaps you’ll even take what is useful and valuable to you and use it. Perhaps you’ll choose to discard the rest. Enjoy!

1. We are always communicating.

2. All behavior is communication (an organism cannot not communicate or respond).

3. The highest quality information from another person is behavioral information.

4. Every behavior can be useful in some context.

5. The worth of the individual is held constant, while the behavior can change.

6. The meaning of the communication is the response that you get.

7. We experience the world uniquely, through our 5 senses, it is the “how” we structure the meaning of reality, the map we create of our own reality.

8. The map is not the territory, and people respond to their map of reality, not to reality itself. We can only interpret reality through our senses & experiences.

9. The ability to change the process by which we experience reality is often more important than changing the content by which we experience reality.

10. Experience has structure. We can accomplish anything if we break it down into small enough chunks and model it.

11. Anyone can do anything! If one human being can learn a skill or ability, it is possible, through modeling, for another human being to learn that skill or ability. 12. The element in a system with the most flexibility wins, or at least will usually be the controlling element.

13. People already have most of the resources they need to be successful.

14. It is better to have choices than no choices.

15. People always make the best choices available to them.

16. There is no failure, there is only feedback.

17. If what you are doing isn’t working, do something else. When you find out what works for you, do more of it. When you find out what doesn’t work for you, stop doing it.