NERO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

I remember the first time I ever used NLP with Mary, a client.

She was a heavy set lady, no more like an obese lady.

Mary (not her real name) was rather, drab in appearance and shy as she related her story to me.

I was driving home along a winding, hilly road, way out in the country. I had driven it hundreds of times to and from work, but this day, it had been raining and as I approached a particular hazardous curve my wheels began to skid, I hit the brake and found myself going out of control. Then everything went black.

(she went through the windshield and was lying on the road.)

I remember hearing voices of the ambulance drivers. "They were joking about my size and I felt humiliated and ashamed, even though I was unconscious I knew what they were saying."

"Every time from then on that I passed this point in the road I feel panicky and memory of that day floods back all over again making me feel depressed and embarrassed with myself. "

I took her into a relaxed state of hypnosis and we used the NLP tools to undo the damage this accident did to her self esteem.

First I muscled tested her response when she related the incident one more time to me, her muscle would go weak at the moment of impact. I then had her make believe she was in a black and white movie going backwards, and then reversing swishing fast up to the moment of impact. We had her do this a couple of times. This desensitizes the memory..I even had her put in the words the ambulance drivers said. I then had her freeze the picture at the moment of impact and told her to visualize it getting tiny and foggy and pushing it far away till it was so tiny she could put it on a head of a pin. I asked her to store that picture on the left side of her mind.

Then I asked her to make a brilliant Technicolor movie of her ideal day going down this same road and passing this same spot. She related it to me, putting in the sound of birds, radio playing etc, and smelling the country side of new mowed hay, seeing the sun shining and feeling really wonderful. ( use all 5 senses.) I then ask her to go to the tiny old film she has stored on the left side of her mind and ask her to move her eyes back and forth 6 or 8 times quickly, imagining she is an eraser rubbing the whole movie out never to come back again.I then ask her to try to relate her story about the accident to me again as she is I muscle test her..she remained strong and unaffected even when the ambulance drivers said the negative remarks.

When I bring her out of hypnosis. I ask her how she feels when she thinks of the accident. She smiles and says, "things can happen and that was then and this is now,I am okay."

I saw Mary again several weeks later and asked her how she was when she passed this same place on the road. She told me she has no feelings about it at all. She goes by it without any impact or thoughts about the accident.

That is the power of NLP.

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