have not heard of nlp. i will check it out.
BANDLER AND GRINDER were early researchers responsible for it.
They examined what the best therapists and speakers had in common.
Many of the best preachers and public speakers demonstrate facets of Neuro Linguistic Programming ‘naturally,’ without realizing it.
Lots of great preachers—particularly under Holy Spirit anointing can hold thousands of people “spell-bound” for long periods.
And, if my professional cohorts or I examined the videos of such a sermon, we could point out aspects of Neuro Linguistic Programming—whether the speaker was consciously aware of such, or not.
Some of it seems to be hardwired responses of our brains to sequences of data presented in certain ways. Bandler and Grinder examined, labeled and quantified THOSE WAYS. And others have built on their work since.
Where it becomes evil, imho, is when folks consciously !CONTROL! and manipulate others with it in a deliberately destructive way for deliberately destructive goals as a technique . . . a mind-control, brainwashing technique.
For example, MEN’s brains (vs women’s) are uniquely structured in a way that STORIES, PARABLES insert information into men’s brains MOST effectively compared to all other means. Interestingly, Jesus used parables.
It is true, that, IF a wife will construct a story of the information she wants to convey to her hubby . . . into a story—tailored to the field of the hubby’s most passionate interests—whether it’s cars, sports, work, woodworking or whatever—IF THE STORY IS CONSTRUCTED CAREFULLY ENOUGH and delivered properly, ON AVERAGE, hubby will have no defense against the message in the story. The message will be VERY effective.
It also so happens that men and women have less defense against advertising WHEN the advertiser pushes buttons on the 3 following representational systems:
1. visual
2. auditory
3. kinesthetic or touch.
When an advertiser can present an ad which pushes buttons on all 3 of those modalities—particularly over and over in sequence, the ads are much more effective.
And, it turns out, that when two communicators are careful to TRANSLATE thei PRIMARY MODALITY of perceiving and operating in the world—ONE OF THOSE 3—when communicators are careful to TRANSLATE from their personal modality into the modality of their marriage or other partner—THEIR MESSAGES WILL BE HEARD MUCH MORE EASILY AND ACCURATELY.
Anyway—that’s a brief overview.