What is Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Should a Christian Use it?
[Editor’s Note: We’d like to start a dialogue on this issue, so feel free to comment!] These questions come across my desk or are raised in a telephone conversation almost daily. I would like to shine some light on this topic and open a conversation and exploration about it with you. In doing so I think it is important to define what is NLP, explore it’s origins, and applications. Neuro-Linguistic Programming: What is it Really? The origins of NLP are fairly simple. Two men, John Grinder and Richard Bandler were interested in how people used language and created unique results. Bandler a computer programmer had a gift for observing patterns, and Grinder a linguist took note of Bandler’s ability to recognize language patterns. The most basic way to look at NLP is to look at what the name Neuro-Linguistic Programming stands for. The Neuro is present in the name because all experience is processed through our neurology, our brain. The Linguistic piece is tied to our use of language, and t
