Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Nov 09, 2025
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “Why do I keep doing that?” If you have then welcome to the club of real life. Our brains are brilliant at creating habits and stories, even the unhelpful ones. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) helps you rewrite your inner scripts so you can think, feel and behave in ways that work for you.
Think of NLP as the user manual for your mind. It shows how your thoughts, words and actions link together to create the results you achieve in your life, and how small shifts can unlock big changes.
A coaching client once said to me, “I’m terrible at presenting, I just freeze.” We used a simple NLP reframe to change that phrase to, “I’m enjoying and having fun sharing my ideas.” The difference? Confidence. Two weeks later she delivered her presentation successfully and calmly, smiling all the way through.
Another client training for a marathon kept saying, “I always hit a wall.” We used an NLP visualisation technique to imagine that wall melting away and replaced it with the mantra, “I've got this...it's just like running around my local park” And sure enough on the big day he did brilliantly well both physically and mentally and raised lots of cash for his nominated charity.
That’s the power of NLP. It’s not magic; it’s awareness. Once you begin to recognise your old thought patterns, you can choose new ones. You realise the stories you tell yourself are flexible. They are from the past and you choose how to re-write them for your future.
So next time your inner critic pipes up, pause and ask, “What else could be true for me?” Because when you change your thinking, you really do start to change everything.
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Have a great week changing those thoughts that used to hold you back!
Lindsey and the team at Team NLP
