Definition 'Map of the World'

My google keyword :  nlp AND what is map of your world?

 I've found an interesting info about what is map of the world according to NLP from this link:-

http://lifecoachesblog.com/2006/05/31/nlp-101-the-map-is-not-the-territory/

 

NLP 101: The Map Is Not The Territory

Wed, May 31, 2006

NLP, NLP 101

What are The NLP Presuppositions?
The most basic and essential parts of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) are the presuppositions.
Think of the NLP presuppositions as the guiding principles or beliefs holding the NLP model up, like how a programming language maintains an entire computer operating system. Without the programming language, you can’t build the operating system and it collapses. But if you use the coding principles, your ability to create is limitless.
NLP doesn’t hold that these beliefs are ‘ultimately’ true, but we pre-suppose that they are. In NLP, whether a belief is ultimately true or not is not as important as whether or not it’s useful.
In the next NLP 101 series of posts, I’ll be introducing the core NLP presuppositions one by one, and we’ll see how they can relate to your life and help make it a more colorful and expansive one.
For the very first one…
The Map Is Not The Territory
Every second of our lives, millions of bits of information are streaming through our five senses into our minds, but only 7 plus or minus 2 bits gets consciously registered. NLP says that we cannot truly know the world as it is, not only because our conscious awareness is limited, but even that tiny bit that gets in we experience through the conscious and unconscious filters that we have, like our beliefs, values and states.
And because everyone experiences the world differently, we say that the map is not the territory: I have a different experience of reality than you do, and it’s not about being any more right or wrong than yours is. In NLP, we only ask if the current map you have is the most useful one for you right now.
How Can I Use This?
If you pre-suppose that the map is not the territory, then you’ll automatically assume that your beliefs do not always reflect reality accurately. You might have lived your whole life believing something is so, but just because you believed in Santa Claus didn’t make it so.
Could a belief like ‘the world is full of assholes’ limit you? Someone might have had one lousy experience in the past, and formed that belief. As the years went by, they might have forgotten how that belief got formed, and taken that habitual belief to be fact: to them that’s how the world ‘really’ is.
But if the map isn’t the territory, that person could realize that belief isn’t etched in stone, but merely written on her map of the territory. She might realize that other people who don’t believe the world is full of assholes aren’t deluded, they just have a different map of the world.
And if she changes that writing on her map to something more useful, like perhaps: ‘the world is a nicer place because I’m here’, she’ll work with the territory a lot differently and get different results because the map is guiding her differently now.
The Map Is The Territory
Contrast that with the opposite belief: that the map is the territory. Think of it: an entire world full of people who walked around believing that their view of reality is the only right one, and everyone else who doesn’t share their map of the world is just plain wrong.
Doesn’t it sound like a potential receipe for arguements, fights and wars?
If The Map Is Not The Territory, What Would Be Different For You?
If you don’t already hold this belief, pause your disbelief for a moment, and just allow yourself to imagine it’s true that the map is not the territory (even that is not the territory, I know, but let’s test). How would your life be different if you held that belief to be true, emotionally, mentally, socially, physically and spiritually?
NLP 101 Series:
NLP 101: What is NLP? Part 1
NLP 101: What is NLP Special for The Super NLP Hardcore
NLP 101: What is NLP? Part 2
NLP 101: So Dark The Con Of NLP
NLP 101: How NLP Changed My Life
NLP 101: The Map Is Not The Territory
NLP 101: There Is No Failure Only Learning Experience
NLP 101: Every Behaviour Has A Positive Intention
NLP 101: The Meaning of Your Communication is The Response You Get
NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate
NLP 101 Thoughts: You Cannot Not Change The World
NLP 101: People Are Always Making The Best Choices They Have
NLP 101: People Are Not Broken
NLP 101: You Cannot Not Communicate: The Pygmalion Effect
NLP 101: Everyone Already Has All The Resources They Need
NLP 101: There Are No Resistant Listeners, Only Inflexible Speakers
NLP 101: Life Is A Series of Systems
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your other half 'map of the world'

Thank You Allah for the spouse that I have now....

I  am flabbergasted (= very great suprise).........................u see, my spouse is a typical malay man, who seldom or difficult to express his love towards his loved ones, esp his partner. But his action  made me realized that, action do speak louder than words.  Maybe I should ask him to draw me what is actually his 'map of the world' . What is map of the world? I 'll post it in another board...

 from this link on how to save your marriage:-

http://www.1lovespirit.com/relationship-nlp-presupposition.html

Understanding NLP Presuppositions give you an added advantage in dealing with relationship challenges.

    The map is not the territory.

Our mental maps of the world are not the world. We respond to our maps, rather than directly to the world. Mental maps, especially feelings and interpretations, can be updated more easily than the world can be changed.

Application to Relationships

How well are you able to appreciate your partner's map of the world. Do you often think of your map as the absolute reality?

    Experience has a structure.

Our thoughts and memories have a pattern to them. When we change that pattern or structure, our experience will automatically change. We can neutralize unpleasant memories and enrich memories that will serve us.

Application to Relationships

NLP Technique called Strategy Elicitation can uncover your thought patterns. When you know the patterns, you can then make changes to them. The changes, then, produce the desired behavior.

If one person can do something, anyone can learn to do it.We can learn an achiever's mental map and make it our own. Too many people think certain things are impossible without ever going out and trying them. Pretend that everything is possible. When there is a physical or environmental limit, the world of experience will let you know about it.

Application to Relationships

Do you often wish you could react in a calm manner when your partner disagrees with you? Perhaps you know of a very patient friend. Using NLP, you can model your friend's patient composure.

The mind and body are parts of the same system.Our thoughts instantly affect our muscle tension, breathing, feelings, and more, and these in turn affect our thoughts. When we learn to change either one, we have learned to change the other.

Application to Relationships

You can know what your spouse is feeling by modeling his posture and facial expression as closely as possible. Remember, words only constitute 7% of communication, tonality 38% and body language 55%.

Observe your own posture when you respond to conflict situations. By changing your posture, you can change the state of your mind, so that you can respond in a more desirable way.

People already have all the resources they need.Mental images, inner voices, sensations, and feelings are the basic building blocks of all our mental and physical resources. We can use them to build up any thought, feeling, or skill we want. and then place them in our lives where we want or need them most.

Application to Relationships

This is one way of saying that we all have the inner wisdom, lying in our unconscious mind, to find solutions to our problems.

You cannot NOT communicate.We are always communicating, at least nonverbally, and words are often the least important part. A sigh, a smile, and a look are all communications. Even our thoughts are communications with ourselves, and they are revealed to others through our eyes. voice tones, postures, and body movements.

Application to Relationships

Understanding your spouse's non-verbal communication can help you relate and respond to your spouse better.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Others receive what we say and do through their mental map of the world. When someone hears something different from what we meant, it's a chance for us to notice that communication means what is received. Noticing how our communication is received allows us to adjust it, so that next time it can be clearer.

Application to Relationships

Do you often use the same strategy of getting your message through, even if your spouse's response is not what you desire? Do you blame your spouse if the message does not get through? Do you think that blaming your spouse can invite a better response? How then can you use your creativity to change your communication strategy, such that you invoke a more desirable response in your spouse?

Underlying every behavior is a positive intention.Every hurtful, harmful, and even thoughtless behavior had a positive purpose in its original situation. Yelling in order to be acknowledged. Hitting to fend off danger. Hiding to feel safe. Rather than condoning or condemning these actions, we can separate them from the person's positive intent, so that new, updated, and more positive choices can be added that meet the same intent.

Application to Relationships

Understand that there is a positive intention behind your spouse's actions. Granted, the behavior serving the positive intention may be undesirable. Find out the positive intention of your spouse's behavior, acknowledge it and work out another solution that serves the positive intentions.

    People are always making the best choice(s) available to them.

    Every one of us has his or her own unique personal history. Within it, we learned what to do and how to do it, what to want and how to want it, what to value and how to value it, what to learn and how to learn it. This is our experience. From it, we must make all of our choices; that is, until new and better ones are added.

Application to Relationship

Understand that your spouse is behaving in a certain way, due to his own personal history and the unconscious resources available to him. The same applies to you.

If what you are doing isn't working, do something else. Do anything else.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. If you want something new, do something new, especially when there are so many alternatives.

Application to Relationships

How many times have your tried the same strategy again and again to work on your relationship, even if it fails to produce results? If a strategy worked 10 years ago or if it worked for someone else, that does not mean it will work now or that it will work for you . So if one strategy does not produce the results that you want in your relationship,  try another. Keep trying until you get your desired results. Be flexible. However, ensure that your strategy fits with your values and beliefs.

 p/s : I personally love this pic,all heads becometh one :-) and the young boy looks like my no 5, except for the blue eyes :-)

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