How can you apply NLP to sport?

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Neuro-linguistic programming (often abbreviated to NLP), came from a body of research which looked into the linguistic structures used by successful therapists. The theorists can to the conclusion that the really successful therapists all used a common structure of language. This conclusion, and the subsequent techniques developed in light of it, rests on the idea that there is an inextricable link between language, neural pathways, and behaviour.

After this work was published, and in light of its findings, people set to work creating techniques and apparatus by which one might manipulate language in order to change the structure of thought or behaviour. Because of its theoretical abstraction, NLP can be applied in many different places. It is most often associated with business and sales techniques, as well as therapy, education and well being classes. Another, slightly more surprising area of application, however, is that of sports, where trainers use NLP to maximise strategic thought and behaviour.

How this might be done is by taking advantage of what NLP call the five main representational systems. These are: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory. These are the senses via which the world influences the way we think about it, and through manipulation of these areas, you can manipulate the way you see the world, and thus how you act in it.

These systems are influenced by using the body of language associated with each. If a football coach wanted to spur his team on, for example, while taking advantage of language associated with the kinaesthetic system, he might say “Come on, we can feel the victory; let’s go and grab it!” And the thought is that this would be more effective than just saying something like “We can win this!”

Another application of NLP in the world of sport is that it can help players get into certain helpful mental states. Lots of athletes claim that when they do their best, they have a feeling called “the zone” whereby they are totally focused, and feel invincible. With the apparatus NLP makes available, athletes can practice entering the zone at will.

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