NLP is a form of coding experience ONLY. Nothing more - mothing less. NLP is a methodology for breaking down processes, skills, talents, etc. in order to transfer them to someone else.
NLP is NOT:
-self help
-persuasion
-influence
-seduction
-hypnosis (everything is - nothing is)
-therapy
-etc.
Those things are ways or processes to achieve outcomes. Helping yourself to do what? Persuading whom to do what? Seducing whom to do what?
NLP simply allows you to code the successful experience of someone else or even your own successful experience in order to be able to consciously repeat or adopt the process.
Paul used NLP distinctions to model expert readers. Distinctions about the uses of conscious and unconscious processing.
In the words of my Master Trainer Rex Sikes, "NLP doesn't exist." Because IT doesn't - experience does. NLP merely gives you the tools to organize the experience.
DHE or NHR is different because those deal with deep trance phenomenon. But for now, just know that NLP has no outcome by itself.
It's just communication and CommonSense!