"Perhaps the only limits to the human mind are those we believe in." —Willis Harman

NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a set of techniques or rituals and beliefs that adherents use primarily as an approach to psychotherapy, healing, communication and personal development.

NLP was proposed in 1973 by Richard Bandler and John Grinder as a set of models and principles to describe the relationship between mind (neuro) and language (linguistic, both verbal and non-verbal) and how their interaction might be organized (programming) to affect an individual's mind, body and behavior. It is described by the original developers as "therapeutic magic" and "the study of the structure of subjective experience". It is predicated upon the assumption that all behaviors have a practically determinable structure.

NLP is based on New Age beliefs in unlimited potential and the access to subconscious, and body language cues derived from the observation of "therapeutic wizards". Techniques include behavior change, transforming beliefs, and treatment of traumas and phobias through techniques such as reframing and "meta-modeling" proposed for exploring the personal limits of belief as expressed in language. NLP has been applied to a number of fields such as sales, psychotherapy, communication, education, coaching, sport, business management, interpersonal relationships, seduction, occult and spirituality.