NLP is a constantly evolving set of techniques that result from the study of the structure of subjective experience, behaviour and communication.
It is the art and science of personal excellence. Developed in the early 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, to study models of excellence of how an individual structures their experiences. NLP is a method and process for discovering patterns that experts use in any field to achieve outstanding results.
Neuro: all behaviour stems from neurological processes of the five senses.
Linguistic: language orders our thoughts and behaviour when communicating
Programming: ways we can choose to recognize our ideas and actions to produce results.
It has many techniques that help a person look at problems in a different light, i.e. reframing the mind to do what you want it to do, rather than letting it focus on negative beliefs that are getting you nowhere. It has one technique that will virtually always get rid of a phobia in one session.
If you wish to find out more about NLP, then there is no better place to start than
Richard Bandler's own site :-