The presuppositions of NLP are great tools to broaden my perception on the way I see things. Three particular presuppositions which benefited me a lot are;
1. The meaning if the communication is the response that I get, regardless of my intention.
In the past, I always had problem delivering my intention to people around me. I always get a lot of questions for my intention of my speech as I couldn’t deliver them clearly to my audience. Then did I realise that I had ban talking in the past and not speaking. With the help of the NLP Milton and Meta model, two very powerful communicator models, I was able to better structure my intention of my message across to my audience. Also with the Hakalau technique, I was able to speak slightly calmer than before in front of a crowd and also more fluent than before.
2. The map is not the territory.
I have always had problem seeing or perceiving the ways things should be when I am in a group. I found it especially hard to deliver my view of point to a group setting and found it also very difficult to understand some people have their own way of looking at a similar objective. Until I realise this important presupposition that everyone view thing at their respective viewpoint. It is very important as it kept discussion in harmony and also with more viewpoints we can have more solution in solving a problem.
3.There is positive intention behind all behaviour.
It took me quite some time to digest this presupposition. However, reflecting back to my life in the pass, there were quite a number of incidents which I felt I was innocently accused in school by my teachers. Looking back, they were only trying their best to teach in ways which I couldn’t accept back them.
Article by NLP Singapore Practitioner Jia Rong