Many newcomers "tackle" NLP in clinical way, Meta modelling the world around them and forgetting the idea that is the tool for understanding and affecting a human subjective experience. Within the logical structures lies art. It is in the metaphors and story telling, the art of working with voice and the fluidity of permissive hypnosis.
Even the Meta Model can be artfully used as a hypnotic induction via indirect elicitation of awareness in the client...
To do it well, learn the symbolic logic and then....turn on your artistic brain and flow with it....