Here's a definition of NLP from Wikipedia.
"Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as "a model of interpersonal communication chiefly concerned with the relationship between successful patterns of behaviour and the subjective experiences (esp. patterns of thought) underlying them" and "a system of alternative therapy based on this which seeks to educate people in self-awareness and effective communication, and to change their patterns of mental and emotional behaviour"
This all being true allows for some deeper reason why NLP has survived for over 30 years and has got excelent media coverage throughout this time.
We all need some form of self-development and any 'mirrors' can help in seeing ourselves to aid this self-discovery.
NLP has given us the windows to humaness, scratching the surface within the inner workings of how we all process inormation and experience life through our senses.
Being as Plato called the senses 'The World of Illusions' we will have to dig deeper to find more objective evaluations of who we are.
Something about NLP has been given sanction to persist until we can delve deeper and understand the vast universe outside of our 'normal' interpretations. Until these times, I give thanks that, as a race, we have embraced learning and developing techniques to further us as beings.
Wikipedia then goes on to mention that NLP has no support in the scientific/academic world... "Because of the absence of any firm empirical evidence supporting its sometimes extravagant claims, NLP has enjoyed little or no support from the scientific community......"
So, perhaps the next evolution of NLP will be to marry some of the concepts together and show how physics and NLP are very similar indeed.
In the next few blogs/articles, I'll see how I can show how the scientific world and NLP live in the same country and share the same bedclothes.
Perhaps then Wikipedia will change it's columns to the subject of relatedness with NLP and science.
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