It's interesting, after you commented I looked up NLP on Wikipedia and was honestly surprised at it's debunking. I've read a few NLP books: NLP for Dummies, NL

It's interesting, after you commented I looked up NLP on Wikipedia and was honestly surprised at it's debunking. I've read a few NLP books: NLP for Dummies, NLP for the modern manager and a range of literature from people like Tony Robbins, Christopher Howard, etc. Some of the material sucked, NLP for the modern manager especially. I have been frustrated by the wishy washy nature of much of the material. However the thing that really struck me was when I'd just finished a Tony Robbin's seminar and had a meeting with my boss at the time who I barely got on with. I did the technique called "matching and mirroring" where you gently copy what the other person is doing. I was amazed it was the best meeting we'd had that I could remember. Since then I've used a number of the "basic" NLP techniques to do with body language to help me communicate better with people. I guess I'm not sure what to advise. Reading the Wikipedia article though makes me wonder how much of it is a crock. Quite a lot of material I've read seems to be unhelpful, unspecific or "self-help snake oil". I'm curious what the real science is behind the practical body language techniques I've been able to pull out of NLP if the rest of it is hokum.