No. It may some day be adopted as one of the techniques because I am a Master NLP Practitioner, and I have distributed the practice to everyone free. However, I have requested that it be known as The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ because beyond the simple questions there are many key understandings in this book that are integral to the practice, and which enable you to make powerful use of the questions.
I don’t use NLP much now because many of the techniques employ “going into the past,” often triggering suffering, and I have found I do not need to do that (people are already far too good at suffering). I do use some very powerful personal NLP skills in facilitating The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ and some of the “in-the-moment” NLP techniques.
After the questions came to me, I realized that the first question was similar to an NLP question, but with one tiny but very massive, critical difference. In NLP they use the word “want,” for example, “How do you want to be?” And want implies: (1) you don’t have it, and (2) that it is something, sometime, somewhere in the future. So even if you get temporarily jazzed up with a few good-sounding words, it is not truly believed, it is not fully embodied, and it is still only how you “want” to be.
This is why I am very particular about the words and their order in the question: “How does it feel?” That means right here, right now, and directs attention into the body, into the feeling, and away from thinking. In order to answer it, you must go inside and feel it; you must shift state.
When working with people, because they are not already feeling it and due to habit, they sometimes change the question and ask, “You mean how do I want to feel?” or “You mean how would it feel?” Those are in the future and attached to some need, and can be quickly mentally answered with mere thought and without a shift in state, so I immediately correct that and repeat, “No, how does it feel?” They quickly get the idea. This question did not come from thinking up a good question to ask. It came from remembering how I actually went into the body and felt for what I wanted, now.
If anything, Alchemy is most similar to “being in the now.” No doubt my understandings and what I share have been influenced by everything I have ever read, heard, and learned in my life; however, The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ has its own truly spontaneous birthing story. It arose from my accidental “discovery” of how to stop my own suffering; it arose from experiential alchemy.