Expanding Conscious Freewill

Being human is a rich and somewhat complicated experience of choices, emotions, opportunities, and results.

We often encounter moments when we feel stuck in unproductive or challenging situations—it’s a natural part of life that serve as part of our growth; but when these challenges turn into repetitive blockages and limiting patterns, they turn into serious barriers that obstruct our development and wellbeing.

Everyone knows someone who, no matter the circumstances, seems to be hitting the same rock over and over again; and we can see their struggle, and they can feel that whatever they are doing is not enough to break free from those limiting patterns. We know them as accomplished and determined individuals, so we cannot help but ask, how come? What lets them know to have that experience over and over again?

Often, limiting patterns reflect structural aspects of a person’s map of the world; the internal processes that, outside of their conscious awareness, determine what experiences are and are not appropriate for them to have. This concept is particularly cumbersome for those who maintain that their conscious mind must reign all aspects of their lives, and that the power of sheer reasoning and determination should conquer all other aspects of their consciousness. Particularly in the western world, the notion that the rational mind must rule over emotions is the more than 2,000 years-old legacy of ancient Greek philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics that to date remains the status quo.

More inclusive approaches about the mind have emerged in the last 150 years; approaches that conceive the body and the multiple aspects of the mind as a dynamic system. The main mandate of this system is its survival, and the other than conscious aspects of the mind function as an intrinsic part of the system’s survival mandate.

When confronting an unwanted experience, our first and most natural instinct is wanting it to disappear, or to at least stop. Yet, when we presume that our choices shape our experience, we may want to consider the potential value in the information we can unveil from recurring unwanted experiences. One elegant and simple approach to do this is by reaching greater clarity on multiple aspects contained in the experiences we want to have. Pondering about the experiences we want is an exercise that grants us the opportunity to contemplate and revise aspects of ourselves that we consider static, like our criteria and priorities, as well as some of our beliefs and values.

At NLP-Yatá, we assist our clients to respectfully explore multiple aspects of their experiences, so that they can uncover the origin and the veiled purpose of their unwanted experience. This process enhances their self-awareness and opens up opportunities for discovering more effective strategies and behavioral and emotional resources that are better aligned with the experiences they consciously want to have. With greater clarity and a renewed appreciation of themselves and their circumstances, our clients gain access to the tools that allow them to create more of the experiences they consciously want, without having to remember to be different.

Hey There,

Hello, I’m Álvaro, the founder of NLP-Yatá. I’ve dedicated over a decade to mastering the practice of Transformational Neurolinguistic Programming (T-NLP), a powerful and versatile set of tools for understanding and working with the human experience. In Neurolinguistic Programming, “Neuro” refers to the sensory processing parts of our nervous system; “Linguistic” covers the verbal and nonverbal methods we use to represent our world; and “Programming” involves the mental instructions that shape how we classify and organize our experiences.

Discovering how our experiences are shaped is nothing short of eye-opening. By deepening our understanding on what is behind our choices and how we perceive what’s possible and not possible for us to experience, we gain clarity on the internal drivers behind our behaviors and outcomes. This insight helps us identify the culprits preventing us from achieving our goals and the experiences we truly desire.

At NLP-Yatá, our aim is to assist our clients to uncover and review their limiting patterns. Unlike conventional NLP, which often offers one-size-fits-all solutions, T-NLP practitioners explore and respect their clients’ whole experience, so that our clients can appreciate and take the learnings they offer, and leave the rest where it belongs. As a T-NLP practitioner, my mission is to assist my clients gain that awareness and to identify and obtain the internal resources they need to more consciously and congruently bridge the gap between your current state and the experiences you want, while expanding your sense of freedom and well-being.

What is NLP

Neurolinguistic Programming or NLP is a behavioral perception toolbox that is well adapted for understanding and working with the human experience. These tools are widely used for developing learning skills, improving performance in fields like sales and sports, and more recently in the sphere of executive coaching.

Developed in the mid-2010s by Dr. Carl Buchheit, Transformational NLP contains the entire conventional NLP toolbox, psychological concepts of childhood development and family dynamics, neurophysiological aspects of the human brain and nervous system development and operation, system dynamics, and metaphysical views of the human experience, and quantum physics concepts time, cause and effect.  By integrating this multidisciplinary approach to understanding the human experience, the main focus of T-NLP is to appreciate and include all aspects of the experience of being human as the most effective way to integrate more fulfilling choices into peoples’ life experience.

For a comprehensive description of the origins and fundamentals of NLP and T-NLP check out “A New Psychology – Transformational NLP” by Carl Buchheit.

My Clients

Mostly I work with environmentally and socially conscious business owners, entrepreneurs, scholars, and leaders who find themselves caught in unfulfilling or unproductive behavioral or emotional patterns, or people who simply want to reach a better understanding of their situation and their goals and explore the internal resources that will lead them there, whatever those may be. These are people who, despite their professional success have realized that sheer determination has not fully yielded the life experiences they want.

Using the T-NLP toolkit we guide our clients to respectfully explore their experiences, the one they are having now and the one they want. Through our work, my clients develop a keener sense of self-awareness of themselves and their situation, develop a richer menu of behavioral and emotional options, and discover untapped internal resources. With greater clarity and a deeper sense of appreciation and respect for themselves and their situation, my clients are able to reach their goals more easily by more consciously exercising their free will in creating the experiences they truly want. Because the T-NLP toolkit works with the same embedded pathways that shape the human experience, our clients don’t have to remember to be different.