What If Everything Was As Easy As Submodalities (NLP)?

Somehow I ended up taking NLP coursework to get better results in sales and communications at work. This is an interesting decision - given my distaste for all that psycho-babble touchy feely stuff that seems to dominate every bookstore and coffee shop. NLP seemed safe to me - they pretty much stay away from content, just what you want to do and how to go about it.

NLP doesn't seem to get embarrassed about things being too easy, because if they did, they would never offer these courses. This stuff is waaaay too easy. Even weirder considering this stuff has been around for 30 years.

This weekend I'm taking a course in submodalities, and I am reminded how insanely stupid and easy it can be to do what is for me, comparatively powerful things. Stuff I had tried to work on for decades ( I'm 53 years old ) is now all of a sudden effortless and all I did was this silly little 20 minute exercise? Huh?? This makes no sense at all to me, or at least the me of my previous understanding.

Submodalities is just a funny word for how things look, or sound or feel to me, such as how bright, moving or still, loud or soft type of stuff. Was it 3d or flat? What position relative to front or left etc etc. It takes maybe 15 minutes to do a quick exercise on something I wrestled with all my life, such as coming home and doing the bills/paperwork thing. Never a favorite activity.

So now 15 minutes later something that had always been a motivational issue is a complete non-issue? Huh? What's up with that?

Granted, submodalities isn't the only thing that got me to conclude that things were way too easy in NLP. There is this thing called simple anchoring that is just as effective for certain things, and just as easy. Time line stuff is maybe even easier, and apparently having just as profound an effect.

I had this belief system that anything worth having would be hard to get. This belief is not proving to be correct.