NLP for Beginners

At the beginning, you might ask yourself things like: What is NLP anyway? How can I use it meaningfully in everyday life? And how can I positively and sustainably change my life through NLP?

If that's the case, then you’ve come to the right place at Landsiedel NLP Training! As the market leader in Germany, we offer you an incredible amount of knowledge from over 20 years of experience. - And the best part: completely free!
You are welcome to participate in our seminars near you and experience NLP live or purchase one of our courses.

Table of Contents

1. What is meant by NLP?
2. Applying NLP in everyday life
3. 5 NLP Techniques for Beginners
4. How can my life change through NLP?
5. NLP Training for Beginners
6. Ways to learn NLP
7. Book: NLP for Beginners

What is meant by NLP?

NLP is a language and change model with which (techniques) you can shape your life in a more positive, self-determined, and successful way. You can compare NLP to a toolbox; for this reason, it is also considered "dangerous" because, like a toolbox, NLP includes several tools (techniques), such as a hammer or a knife. These tools can either be used to improve a state or can also be misused for other purposes. You alone decide how you use NLP for yourself once you master it. The fact is, however: No matter how you use it, it remains a powerful psychological tool.

Applying NLP in everyday life

NLP can be applied wherever communication takes place and personal potential is to be developed. For example:

For example, if you have difficulties expressing yourself correctly and powerfully, convincing others of something, or if you have inner imbalance (self-doubt, lack of attention, dissatisfaction, etc.), then NLP can help you clear these problems out of the way!

In NLP, there are many different techniques that prove useful in different situations. Below, you will find 5 Top NLP Techniques listed, with the help of which you will be catapulted to a new level in the area of personality.

5 powerful NLP techniques

NLP offers effective methods in various application areas. They serve to improve communication and the respective areas of life. All techniques are fundamentally effective; you just have to know how to implement them. Apply the techniques in everyday life and improve your perception.

1. Rapport

   

   Have you ever had a conversation with someone where you felt really good? You felt understood and you were on the same wavelength. When that happens, it is referred to as Rapport (Rapport = Similarity). You can establish rapport between you and your conversation partner to create sympathy and trust. This can also increase willingness to buy or make it easier to negotiate a discount.

   The ability to establish rapport with others is very important not only in sales, but also in communication, discussions, and conflict resolution. You will reach your goal fastest if you build rapport first.

   To successfully establish rapport with another person, two more NLP methods are required: the so-called “Pacing” and “Leading” .

   Read more here to find out!

2. Anchoring

   

   The term “Anchoring” refers to a stimulus (trigger, stimulus, trigger) that causes a specific, always the same reaction in a person. This means that we unconsciously set anchors in some situations by associating a feeling (happy/sad, anxious/brave, etc.) with a situation. Both positive and negative feelings can be anchored. To avoid becoming a victim of negative associations, we can use the powerful NLP technique of anchoring for ourselves. How exactly that works, you can read here.

   Exercise: Put yourself in a situation where you laughed a lot. Notice the feeling of amusement and set an anchor just before the peak of your feeling – for example, clench your hand into a fist and press firmly three times. Then briefly distract yourself and test the anchor again by pressing your palms together. Now you should feel amused again.

   Read more here to find out!

3. Representational Systems: VAKOG

   

   Humans experience the world through their senses. In NLP, we distinguish five different representational systems:

   • Visual (seeing/eyes)
   • Auditory (hearing/ears)
   • Kinaesthetic (feeling/skin)
   • Olfactory (smelling/nose)
   • Gustatory (tasting/tongue)

   Every person tends to be stronger or weaker in certain perceptions, so people can be typified (visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, gustatory). If you know what type your conversation partner is, you can establish rapport even more easily and quickly.

   Read more here to find out!

4. Swish Technique

   

   With the Swish Technique you can dissolve or change bad habits and build strong motivation. This involves images that we project in our mind's eye.

   Exercise: Imagine an image of your unwanted behavior (e.g., nail-biting) and additionally create a target image of how you wish it to be instead. Then you swap both images using the SWISH TECHNIQUE .

   Read more here to find out!

5. Meta-Model

   

   With the Meta-Model, you can become a communication champion: When speaking, deletions, generalizations, and distortions are often used, which can lead to statements being misinterpreted and conflicts arising.

   With the Meta-Model, you delve into the deep structure of what has been said, clarify ambiguities, and avoid misunderstandings.

   Read more here to find out!

How can my life change positively through NLP?

NLP makes you responsible, as it provides us with new thought patterns. NLP encourages us to understand other behavioral patterns and take personal responsibility, so that one can contribute to change.

NLP makes you strong. It helps us to persevere even in the most difficult times, when some situations would bring most of us to our knees, and even emerge stronger from them.

NLP makes you clever. As it improves your perception, you learn how to better absorb, process, and convey information. Additionally, you learn to see through the protective facade that most people put up to hide their true intentions, making you much harder to deceive!

NLP makes you happy. You learn how to transform frustration into fascination, anger into understanding, hate into joy, or fear into courage. You learn to control and even steer your emotions! This allows you to achieve the best – available to you – state in any situation.

NLP makes you successful. With the help of NLP you decode every success strategy for yourself – no matter the purpose. Anyone who wants to be successful needs NLP!

How do I start as an NLP beginner?

You don't want to jump straight into training, but rather get to know NLP better first? No problem! Just visit one of our free NLP evening seminars. There, you will experience live presentations from our NLP trainers that will literally leave your hair standing on end in seminars such as: "Live Your Dream" or "Successful Communication with NLP"!
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NLP Evening Seminar

On this evening, you will experience NLP up close and personal and discover the possibilities that open up for you.

If you are already further along and want more knowledge, more practice, MORE NLP then feel free to sign up directly for one of our Weekend Seminars. Here we will have enough time to work with you more individually and with practical examples.
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NLP Experience Weekend

This weekend, you will experience NLP up close and personally and discover the possibilities that open up for you.

There are many ways to work with NLP, and there are also a few training offers. Depending on your interests and ideas, you can put together a desired program for yourself from a variety of trainings. Perhaps you would like to focus on NLP later and become a master in it. Or you want to be a coach and give presentations later. No matter what your goal may look like, you can achieve it with us!

Free E-Book for Beginners

You will learn the following from this book:

• Optimize your communication
• Bring more energy into your life
• Experience intense emotional states
• Become a personality
• Dream big with the Walt Disney strategy

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What kind of training should you do? Ask yourself the following questions:

• Do you want to learn NLP from home or in a group on-site?
• What goals do you have? What do you want to do with your completed training later?
• What challenges are you currently facing (communication, finances, management, etc.)?
• What topics interest you?

If you are not yet clear about what you want to do later, but you are sure it should be something with NLP, then you should start with the NLP Practitioner training. It doesn't matter which path you want to take, you must have your Practitioner training in any case. It is like elementary school in NLP, without which you cannot continue and move on to the next step in advanced school.

If you want to learn how NLP works and how to apply it in practice, sign up NOW for a free spot in our training.

Ways to learn NLP

• Study NLP from home

  You currently have no time to attend seminars and training, but would still like to continue your education? Do you prefer to learn from home or are you often on the go for work? No problem. Now you can also complete your NLP degrees through distance learning. NLP Premium is suitable for participants who have already completed an NLP training as well as for participants who are dealing with the subject for the first time. Audio and video courses combined with learning lessons will gradually make you an expert. Upon successful completion of the ongoing testing, you will receive the NLP Online Practitioner and NLP Online Master certificate in the study variant.

  
  

• Follow us on YouTube

  On our YouTube page you will find numerous videos on the topic of NLP. Also check out the recordings of an NLP introductory workshop at the NLP Congress in Nuremberg with Stephan Landsiedel. Learn more about the fascinating world of NLP.

  

• Listen to our NLP podcast

  You don't have time to read a book or go out? Then just make your car a rolling university, turn your sports hours and cleaning tasks into an educational event, or simply enjoy the luxury of being able to work on your mental fitness while relaxing with a good cup of tea in your favorite chair. With the FREE NLP Podcast With Landsiedel, you can expand your horizons and draw new strength!

NLP - The 3 Best Books for Beginners

Are you looking for a specific book? Do you want to quench your thirst for knowledge and improve your skills with NLP? We have selected the 3 best books for NLP newcomers for you, enjoy!

Secret of NLP - Manipulation or Psychology for Happiness and Success?

What is hidden behind NLP? Is it manipulation? Or the key to happiness and success?

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• Do you feel like you're standing still and looking for new goals in life?
• Do you think there is more to life than what you have made of it so far?
• Are you searching for meaning, happiness, and personal success – and wondering if NLP provides the right strategies for that?

NLP – three mysterious letters that often lead to misunderstandings. For some, it is pure manipulation, for thousands of users, the ultimate key to success and happiness.

This NLP book for beginners offers you a solid and easily readable introduction to the topic. With numerous tips and success techniques that you can apply immediately. Written by absolute NLP professionals who know what they are talking about.

More and more people are realizing that they can do something themselves to be successful and happy. They want to shed limiting beliefs and program themselves for success. The range of methods for personal development is vast; and for the layman, almost overwhelming. But what really works?

Find out in this book:

• What is special about NLP?
• What can I achieve with it that I can't with other methods?
• Is NLP dangerous?
• Can I manipulate with it?

Learn in this book:

• what mysterious strategies lie behind peak performances
• how to anchor powerful states and call them up at any time
• how to become the optimal user of your brain instead of just owning a brain
• how to program yourself for your goals and build an irresistible motivation
• how to create trustworthy, sympathy-driven relationships with your fellow human beings
• how to recognize what is going on in your conversation partner's mind using signal words

This book is written for you if:

• You want to unfold your potential and live a life according to your vision
• You prefer proven strategies that you can use immediately
• if you want to have more self-confidence
• if you want to discover methods that really work instead of having to search for a long time

The two authors Stephan Landsiedel and Evi Anderson-Krug are absolutely experienced NLP professionals and have already trained hundreds of people. For many years, they have witnessed how NLP has positively changed their own lives and the lives of their trainees in every respect: in their careers, in partnerships, in parenting, in financial success. They know what really matters – and with which strategies you can achieve that too.

• And you can do it too!
• Don't miss out on this NLP practical book!
• Discover today what you can achieve with NLP!
• Additionally, get immediate access to dozens of videos, audios, and invaluable bonus material.
• Don't wait too long – discover the secret of NLP now – and conjure success and happiness into your life!

Here is the direct link to the book

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112 pages, Independently published (April 23, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8613491049

Stephan Landsiedel and Evi Anderson-Krug

Way up - live your own dream

Let Stephan Landsiedel inspire you for your own life and your goals. Start your mornings full of vigor and energy and make yourself a personal masterpiece every day.

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This book is a treasure trove for anyone who wants to Persönlichkeit continue working on themselves. In many effective and creative exercises, you will be challenged to engage deeply with the path of your life and take your destiny boldly into your own hands. Stephan Landsiedel shows you how to develop even more of the incredible potential that lies hidden within you. He challenges you to boldly commit to your own big dream believe in it and make it a reality step by step.The inspiring and captivating style aims to motivate you from the very first page to make real changes in your life possible. Numerous true success stories show you how this can happen.

Here is the direct link to the book

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380 pages, Stephan Landsiedel (3rd edition: January 1, 2013)
ISBN: 978-3940692337

Stephan Landsiedel

NLP-Metaprogram: understand and train

The meta-technique is a very powerful communication method from NLP. Learn to apply it and achieve a new level in your communication and understanding of people!

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This is a practical training book on NLP metaprograms, presenting the most important NLP metaprograms. There are very few books in German on NLP metaprograms. With this workbook, we want to take a step further and help NLP practitioners recognize the metaprograms and respond accordingly. This will elevate your communication to a new level! The book was written by an NLP master group from Stephan Landsiedel. He himself contributed significantly as an editor, proofreader, and by designing some parts of the work.

Learn NOW how to harness the power of the meta-model and significantly improve your communication!
With some examples from professional and private environments for better understanding and numerous exercises that can be implemented directly in practice 1:1!

Here is the direct link to the book

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200 pages, Stephan Landsiedel (2nd edition: May 1, 2009)
ISBN: 978-3940692115

Stephan Landsiedel

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• Three Types VAK
• Eye Movement Patterns
• Lead, Representation, and Reference System
• Minimal Nonverbal Information