Neuro refers to the brain/mind and nervous system of the human organism through which each experience is gathered via our five senses or representational systems:- Visual (Pictures), Auditory (Sounds), Kinesthetic (Feelings), Olfactory (Smells) and Gustatory (Tastes). Then processed, coded and retained as memories. 

Linguistic refers to the content that moves across and through these pathways. It is about language, symbols, words, metaphors and also the nonverbal communication systems through which our neural representations and experiences are coded, ordered and given meaning.

Programming refers to our ability to organize these parts (sights, sounds, sensations, smells tastes, and symbols or words) and the way such content is directed, sequenced, and connected by each of us to produce our individual thinking patterns and behaviors (the programs we run inside our brain) that are our experience of life.

NLP allows us to notice the process of our thinking as separate from the content of our thinking. NLP gives us choices about how we think, which inevitably make it easier to change what we think and the behaviors that follow.

Other Definitions of NLP :-

• Neuro-Linguistic Programming is about the ability to discover and change the way we communicate (internally, with ourselves, and externally, with others) in order to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.
   
• NLP is a Model of Communication that empowers people to run their own brains by understanding and using the "language" of the mind. NLP provides a model, insights, and specific step-by-step techniques for running your own brain and managing you own positive and negative states. It encourages more effective and elegant communication and encourages the replication of human expertise in every field.
   
• NLP is the science of how the brain codes learning and experience. - This coding affects all of our communication and behavior. It affects how we learn and how we experience the world around us.
   
• NLP is an attitude and a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques." The attitude of NLP involves one of intense and excited curiosity. It involves the desire to know what goes on behind the scenes. With this kind of attitude of curiosity, we want to know what makes the human mind work.
   

	NLP is whatever works. (Robert Dilts)
	NLP is the influence of language on our mind and subsequent behaviour.
	NLP is the systemic study of human communication. (Alix Von Uhde)
	NLP is the method for modelling excellence. So it can be duplicated.
	NLP is the manual for the brain which was not, alas, provided along with one's Birth Certificate (LondonHealth)

NLP may be the most powerful vehicle for change in existence ... -- Modern Psychology

NLP could be the most important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the sixties. -- Science Digest

NLP cannot be dismissed as just another hustle. Its theoretical underpinnings represent an ambitious attempt to codify and synthesize the insights of linguistics, body language and the study of communication systems. -- Psychology Today

(NLP) does offer the potential for making changes without the usual agony that accompanies these phenomena... Thus it affords the opportunity to gain flexibility, creativity and greater freedom of action than most of us now know... -- Training and Development Journal