Empowering Our Minds with NLP
- Natanel Saar
- Sep 18, 2025
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 12, 2025
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a way of working with the subconscious mind to access healing and support positive change.
You can think of NLP processes as containers that help clients explore and understand their inner dialogue — the stories, beliefs, and emotions that shape their experience of life.
Our subconscious mind holds our internal story — our dialogue, beliefs, emotions, and emotional information that relates to unpleasant life experiences.
During an NLP session, we gently access this content and reframe it in a way that supports healing, balance and growth.
NLP was originally developed in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the U.S., based on the idea of modeling skilled practitioners who were able to create profound change through language and interaction with patients.
NLP is used to create new possibilities in our minds — creating more space for healing, positive thinking and to access emotional resources. These inner resources can help in healing emotional trauma, releasing limiting beliefs and shifting thought patterns that no longer serve us into ones that support our well-being.
NLP involves gentle relaxation and visualization techniques that allow clients to explore the subconscious mind content, gaining insights into behaviors, past events, relationships and part of our minds that still hold into hard emotional events or limiting beliefs.
With these insights, clients often find it easier to navigate challenges, make peace with the past, and feel more at home within themselves.
The basic assumptions of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
The map is different then the territory (each person sees a slightly different reality, according to their life experiences).
Behind any behavior there is a positive intention ( many times there is a protective intention behind a behavior and we can negotiate a behavior that will be more beneficial to us - changing old patterns to new beneficial ones).
'Failure' can be seen a feedback that can support our growth.
Each person has the resources within themselves to achieve their goals.
At any given moment, a person is making the best possible choice for who they are at that moment.
There is always another option (as we change the way we see the world, more options will be open for us to choose from).
We can know if we have expressed ourselves effectively - according to the response of the person in front of us (taking responsibility to how we communicate ourselves).
The energy flows to where to turn our attention to (instigates an inquiry to intention we have).
External Links
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) is a rich and expansive field of study. If you’d like to learn more and explore its foundations, please follow these links:
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