A lot of respected scholars, psychologist etc... dismiss neuro linguistic programming (NLP) as "pseudo-science" I always thought to myself that it was silly and no one in their right mind could be influenced... however, I now think differently on the matter.
Out of curiosity, I applied NLP twice and in both cases I saw drastic differences in their behavior. Of course it was only twice and it could be coincidental, but it was enough that I never wanted to try it again. Some of you might be thinking.."but if it was successful, why not continue?" The reason was that I felt guilty.
Here are my two situations:
I was at a party and trying to put the make on a girl. My efforts kept getting interrupted by others at this party. She wasn't getting hit on, but she was fairly popular in this crowd. I was getting tired of her attention getting misdirected and so, I started using embedded commands. Instantly, she had this gazed sort of look and when interrupted, she'd briefly acknowledge them, but not engage them. Instead, it was like she was hanging onto every word I said.
The second time was while on break at a temporary job assignment. It was the last day of the assignment and figured what they heck, I'll apply it to this girl just for kicks. After a few lines, she had this "deer caught in the headlights" look. I posted about this situation on alt.seduction and some members referred to this as the "doggie dinner bowl" look.
I am all for scoring with as many women as we can, but I just didn't feel right about using this sort of method. Maybe these two situations were coincidental or maybe they weren't. All I knew was that in good conscience, I couldn't do this any longer.