You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or Sigmund Freud to understand the basic mechanics of NLP.  In fact, there are many ways to launch a neuro linguistic programming for dummies lecture and cover most of the basics.  For now, to whet your taste buds, understand that the mind communicates with outside experience only through the five primary senses.  It also stores data, or memories, of or pertaining to these experiences encoded in the same sensory data or language.  By understanding a patient’s or your own sensory language, or the primary descriptive details you store of your experiences and habits, you can learn to communicate with the basic functions of your mind, those that control your behavior and patterns.  This is great news for those wishing to cure themselves of unhealthy patterns such as smoking, overeating, low self-esteem, or excessively negative thoughts.