Holmes and Collins' framework (2001) specifies the conditions under which motor imagery transfers: matching the physical state, environment, task and emotion of execution. It validates NLP's rehearsal intuition and disciplines it — vague visualisation underperforms matched-condition rehearsal reliably. The best-evidenced bridge between our field's techniques and mainstream performance science.
PETTLEP Imagery Research
PETTLEP — Physical, Environment, Task, Timing, Learning, Emotion, Perspective — is sport science's operational model for making imagery rehearsal actually work: the refined cousin of NLP's future pacing.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026