What is NLP anyhow?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) studies the structure of how humans think and experience the world and how various behavior models work. 

By using these models, techniques a NLP Practitioner can quickly and effectively change thoughts, behaviors and beliefs that limit ones
personal achievement.

Many of the models in NLP were created by studying people who did things exquisitely well. Models such as meta-model, metaprogram, sensory acuity, Milton-model, representational systems and submodalities that help, provide a diverse set of tools for creating change in ourselves and others.

NLP is based on many useful presuppositions that support the attitude that change is imminent. One of the most important is, NLP is about what works, not what should work. In other words, if what you're doing isn't working, try something else, anything else, regardless of whether what you had been doing should have worked.

Flexibility is the key element in a given system, the one who is most likely to do well responds to changing (or unchanging) circumstances.  NLP is much more interested in results and giving people what they want from life.

1. Communication is redundant. We are always communicating.

2. People are not defective. Although some behaviors may not be very useful.

3. People already have most of the resources that they need.

4. Anything can be accomplished if we break it down into small enough pieces.

5. There is no failure, only feedback.

6. The meaning of the communication is the response that you get.

7. People respond to their own internal "map" of reality, not to reality itself.

8. People always make the best choice available to them.

9. Every behavior is useful in some context.

10. Experience has a structure.

11. The element in a system with the most flexibility will be the controlling element.

This is a very condensed explanation of  NLP and with further research on the subject one can obtain a broader scope of this technology.

The manner in which one communicates is the focus of NLP and another presuppositions is: 

A person cannot NOT communicate.

Author Guhen Kitaoka remarked "Incidentally, that NLP is something on a totally different level to the traditional psychotherapeutic schools, and transcends all of them, can be known also from the simple fact that we have a real difficulty to find out newly established important and influential psychotherapeutic schools after the advent of NLP - there was no reason why new psychotherapeutic schools with the same limitation would need to be created after the transcendence of the content level by NLP. (In this senses, not only psychoanalysis, but also psychotherapy itself are now becoming "dead words".)