Meta-analytic work in sports and motor learning (the research tradition consolidated in the 1990s) shows reliable moderate benefits of imagery rehearsal, strengthened by physical practice pairing. NLP's new behaviour generator and future pacing package exactly this mechanism with staging refinements. Where most NLP claims run ahead of science, this one runs alongside it.
Mental Practice Research
Mental practice — rehearsing skills in imagination — is among the best-supported findings in performance psychology, and the legitimate base under NLP's rehearsal techniques.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026