Correct me if I'm being overoptimistic or if I'm just plain dreaming but I think that whats been accomplished with the aid of NLP so far is just the tip of the iceberg. I've always been fascinated by the mind and well before I started studying mind sciences I had been researching and experimenting with my own mind using things like lucid dreaming (comes naturally to me) or implementing my own belief system I saw for myself the power of belief.

I won't get into all the details but I have reason to believe that a great scourge of mankind at the moment is pessimism. Pessimistic beliefs backed up by false logic. False logic such as the notion that the mind is rigid and takes years to change. A hypnotist could demonstrate otherwise. I think the best example I can use is dreams. When your in a dream your bound by self induced false logic. The laws of gravity may apply in the real world but they do not apply in your dreams. At least you are not bound by them. Personally even when I found myself in lucid dreams I would try to fly but I just couldn't get off the ground. There was a shred of doubt in my mind as to whether it was possible. It was only after I had a non lucid spontaneous dream where I was flying for some reason and I became lucid in mid air and from that point on I KNEW I could do it.

Now I can fly with ease in lucid dreams but if it hadn't been for that accidental discovery I may have never been able to fully overcome my false logic/limiting belief. This demonstrated to me the power of belief and it also demonstrated that thinkng something is possible is not the same thing as truly believing or knowing its possible. Now what I think is that there are many people suffering from depression or anxiety or whatever who are operating on false logic which is keeping them from changing. Anxiety and depression are within our own minds so of course we can overcome them with our own minds.

Anyhow what I'm getting at is that a great deal of good can be done with the knowledge of NLP. The saying "one man won't make a difference" doesn't apply in this case because one man will make a difference to 10 other men then those 10 other men will learn NLP and go and apply it to 10 other men and these good deeds will proliferate at an exponential rate. Again correct me if I'm being overoptimistic these are just my opinions which aren't very informed yet. Best to set the bar too high than too low though. That way at least you'll go as high as you can go whether you reach it or not.