Does brain rewiring really take place after 12 to 15 hours seminar teaching over three days? Thats what LP claims. LP clients are banned from saying or thinking they "have" ME. The must say that they "do" ME and can therefore stop "doing" it.
LP manipulates language to deny the bodys signals of pain and fatigue, and overides pacing, calling realistic awareness of the body's signals "negativity".
No other professional hypnotherapists, NLP practitioners or life coaches insist on total belief in the practices as a condition of being accepted as a client, just LP trainers.
LP marketing labels all valid critique of LP as "negative" and mere "opinions", claiming that only those who have done LP (and the trainers) can possibly know what LP is. The inventor of LP did not say that it was NLP at first, not until after people with ME who were familiar with NLP and did LP recognised the NLP content and started describing the NLP Process on patient forums.
And for a long time LP marketing defined ME as "an issue" and the recovery figures on the marketing site were based on numbers of people who had said (before they went home) that they had "resolved" their "issue" at the end of the three days. Thus LP controls the language used by clients as well as their thoughts, and controls the discourse.
At the Royal Society of Medicine CFS Conference of 2008, Jane Colby, Director of the Tymes Trust childrens ME charity stated that there were some very sad instances of children who had done LP saying that they were recovered when they were not and as a result one family lost vital social services and educational support for the sick youngster.
That's what LP teaches, to only speak and think in 'positives' and to redefine disease as a "resolvable issue". So, continously affirming recovery to oneself and others, whether or not actual recovery has taken place, is a fundamental part of LP. Thats why online surveys of LP recovery rates are unlikely to be reliable.