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reddragdiva... No.
The theory doesn't hold, so if you want to build further theory on it you're out of luck. (Wikipedia summarises the problems pretty well: the models are provably incorrect, it appears oddly hard to teach and communicate, and advocates even try claiming science is inadequate to analysing it.)
The master hack for getting people to do what you want is confidence: simply, to confidently tell them to do what you want. NLP works insofar as having a theory at all, even an erroneous one, increases your confidence. And what NLP actually sells is getting people to do what you want. So NLP delivers what it's selling. Sort of.
(I said "simple," not "easy." But that is the actual answer.)
Many other such marketed mental hacks work the same way, including ones that sell themselves as therapies rather than control techniques. They pretty much all work by applied confidence. Some with an admixture of exploiting cognitive biases.
If you don't buy that and think I'm just mired in pseudosceptic negativity, you could always try using NLP for weight loss, psoriasis or to cure cancer.
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Date: 2011-06-11 07:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-06-11 08:04 am (UTC)Which may be relevant or it may track back to stuff someone saw in a book about somewhere else thirty years ago.
If it works, it may be only on the level of consistent signaling - the body language equivalent of remembering to call people "sir"/"madam" and saying "please" and "thank you". Just remembering to pay attention to it at all will do a lot of the work.
"I also cross my arms a lot but that's because I find it comfortable."
Your attitude may then mirror what your arms are doing ;-) Ahh, humans.
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Date: 2011-06-11 10:42 am (UTC)And just because you're a lizard!