g trait anxiety and increasing the sense of internal control. In other words, NLP strategies do appear to effect changes in internal states.
Dreher and Woods (1985) have noted that NLP presents a model of how people process sensory information; the authors discuss the relationship of this processing model to how people interact in the world. One aspect of this sensory processing model concerns eye movement and the claim that eye movements differ depending upon whether one's primary processing mode is auditory, visual, or kinetic.
The foregoing aspect of the NLP model is considered quite crucial to the NLP framework and of great therapeutic benefit Indeed, Zastrow, Dotson and Koch (1986) have stated that accurately assessing a client's representational system (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic) can help build rapport during therapy and improve insights into clients' actions. Further, the authors report that adverbs, adjectives, and verbs used in speech reveal the client's representational system, and metaphors containing words that are appropriate to the client's representational (sensory processing) mode can be very helpful in terms of helping clients to better understand what therapists' are trying to tell them.
In their study of NLP, Buckner, Meara, Reese and Reese (1987) investigated the Neuro-Linguistic Programming eye movement postulate, in order to determine whether, as specified by the model, specific eye movements were indicative of specific sensory components in thought. Forty-eight graduates and undergraduates were asked to concentrate on a single thought while their eye movem
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