^ my best friend is called Troy and I got in to CBT through reading a book on NLP so for those two reasons, I shall reply here.

Now I haven’t got a full grasp on the NLP thing but from the book I read (the NLP coach) I think I understand that …

sometimes we think things and we behave certain ways and things happen to us and patterns revolve around us and we all think it’s just our genetics or ‘Who we are’ etc. but all of these things are based upon this information we’ve come across in the various ways – the experiences we’ve had, the things we read, the things we were told etc and we stored this information into our brains tucked away. As we live we bring out this information in various ways and we act upon it

some can be healthy and productive thought patterns and some can be non productive and hindering.

lets say you were bitten by a dog at age 3. and you think all dogs are rabid animals and let is affect your life – and if it’s hair, has four legs and teeth it’s a dog. and all dogs are bad.

so NLP is about looking at the thought processes and about tracing back their roots – about following the strand of ‘information’ back through the brain to where it is stored and how it comes out and perhaps in some circumstances retraining the brain to follow a different path with thie information – rewiring the thought pattern.

if its got hair, four legs and teeth its probably a dog. a white dog bit me therefore black dogs might not bite me. so not al dogs are bad. white dogs are bad. the white dog that bit me was a small dog therefore all small white dogs are bad bit big white dogs might not be bad. the owner of the small white dog was an arsehole and the dog was angry therefore not all small white dogs are bad but all small white dogs with arsehole owners are bad. it could potentially that since all the other dogs are not bad that I mentioned before then it could bet hat arsehole dog owners are bad., ergo I shall no longer be afraid of dogs.

or summink.