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Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a set of techniques, axioms and beliefs that adherents use primarily as an approach to personal development. NLP was influenced by the ideas of the New Age era as well as beliefs in human potential. more...

The initial ideas of NLP were developed around 1973 by Richard Bandler and professor John Grinder. The term "Neuro-linguistic programming" stems from being a set of models and principles meant to explore how mind and neurology (neuro), language patterns (linguistic), and the organization of human perception and cognition into systemic patterns (programming) interact to create subjective reality and human behaviors.

Based upon language patterns and body language cues derived from the observation of renowned therapists such as Virginia Satir, Fritz Perls, and Milton Erickson , NLP focused on areas such as behavior change, transforming beliefs, and treatment of traumas through techniques such as reframing and "meta modeling" proposed for exploring the personal limits of belief as expressed in language. While NLP has been applied to a number of fields such as sales, psychotherapy, communication, education, coaching, sport, business management, interpersonal relationships, seduction, and spirituality, it was metaphorically described by the original developers as "therapeutic magic" and 'the study of the structure of subjective experience" and is predicated upon the assumption that behaviors have a practically determinable structure

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