Hawaii Island Recovery Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Substance Abuse Treatment
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What Is Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)?
Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) is a collection of strategies and practices that explore the power language can have over your thoughts, behaviors, and beliefs. It operates on the idea that a person creates an internal “map” of the world based on sensory perceptions that define perspectives. NLP uses language to affect change in the brain, resulting in conscious and unconscious change.
The Value of NLP for Substance Abuse Treatment
NLP can be crucial for better understanding stresses and their impact on your daily life. Emotional turmoil such as anxiety, depression, stress, guilt, and more can all have profound effects on your sober journey and even inform potential relapse in recovery. Improved emotional resilience and understanding through NLP can be a crucial part of preventing the negative effects of stress from impacting your sobriety. These practices can help navigate triggers and empower you to develop healthy responses to stress and challenges. Effective NLP can also challenge closely held negative beliefs and challenge them to create a more positive and healthy approach to daily life.
Why We Use NLP in Our Hawaii Drug Treatment Programs
NLP is a special approach to change that can be incorporated alongside various other proven therapies and can be instrumental in furthering your recovery efforts and changing beliefs. Hawaii Island Recovery blends NLP models and practices with other effective treatment modalities to create a comprehensive approach to overcoming the effects of addiction, mental health disorders, stress, and more.
NLP is also crucial in transforming the whole self and developing a new, sober identity throughout recovery. Recovery is about much more than just stopping the use of drugs or alcohol. Rather, effective change at Hawaii Island Recovery is about pursuing a truly healing life, accomplishing personal goals, and becoming a person that makes you proud. NLP can be a core part of challenging past beliefs and behaviors and consciously choosing change. Other benefits of utilizing NLP in your treatment program include:
- Understanding how your brain processes thoughts and stress
- Identifying and understanding past and present behaviors
- Understanding the effects and responses to stress
Using NLP to understand past and present challenges, stresses, beliefs, and perspectives can empower you to challenge unhealthy responses and replace these negative beliefs and practices with healthier alternatives. Changing language and the beliefs associated with it is part of a personalized and effective approach to developing a positive, sober identity.
NLP Ensures That Individuals Are Getting a Whole-Person Approach to Care
Engaging in effective treatment means treating the whole self, engaging in comprehensive, holistic care to not just facilitate change in your life but to lead to sustainable, transformative sobriety. Incorporating these strategies into your treatment plan can empower you to address challenges beneath the surface and ensure that needs of all kinds are being addressed, from physical and emotional needs to spiritual needs and more.
NLP Aids in Creating an Evidence-Based Treatment Plan
Identifying the language, behaviors, perspectives, and beliefs harbored by each person is instrumental in creating a more effective treatment plan. The discoveries and effectiveness of NLP can inform other treatment plans, creating a comprehensive, personalized approach to healing. This can further help:
- Support long-term recovery
- Keep you engaged in treatment
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treatment. Hawaii Island Recovery’s personalized approach to treatment through NLP can ensure that you feel invested in your future and personal healing.
A Closer Look at How Neurolinguistic Programming Works
The model of NLP works through a variety of techniques, all of which are used throughout your sessions. These techniques include:
- Anchoring, or the process of turning sensory experiences into triggers for particular emotional states of being
- Rapport, where the practitioner builds trust with individuals through modeling physical behaviors to improve communication and response through empathy, acceptance, and compassion
- Swish pattern, where patterns of behavior or thought are changed and begin to lead to desired outcomes rather than undesired outcomes
- Visual/kinesthetic dissociation (VKD) is the process of removing negative thoughts and feelings associated with past life events and experiences.
This approach also works by reframing past experiences to change their meaning, which can be a major benefit for those navigating trauma, guilt, or current stresses. Lastly, NLP can use language to help mirror desired outcomes by replicating positive behaviors and thoughts and emulating positive language to reform beliefs and perspectives.
NLP Helps Individuals Reach Their Goals
Your goals in treatment will be unique. Just as your journey with drugs, alcohol, and mental health needs is unique to you, your recovery is equally as personal. NLP helps you recognize personal goals and create a plan that supports your desired change to reach these milestones in sobriety.
How NLP Provides a Complementary Approach to Care
While NLP is not a recognized therapeutic modality on its own, it can support various other forms of care to create a comprehensive and effective approach to healing from personal challenges. Blending NLP with other proven, evidence-based therapies can provide the holistic approach to personal, physical, emotional, and spiritual healing celebrated at Hawaii Island Recovery.
Evidence-Based Treatments That Support NLP
Hawaii Island Recovery’s Commitment to You
There is no single approach to treatment. Personalizing your treatment plan is part of a truly effective and transformative journey, with NLP being a part of creating the right approach, strategies, relapse prevention, and change to help you achieve your goals in recovery and beyond.
Neurolinguistic programming is just one way in which we at Hawaii Island Recovery create a holistic and comprehensive approach to your healing and sobriety. To learn more about our Hawaii drug treatment programs, amenities, and healing options, call to speak to us today at (866) 390-5070.
