Which conditions will change with NLP counselling?
Relationships
Ok, relationships are not quite 'a treatable condition', but they can be if things are not going well for one or both in the relationship.
Families and partnerships these days are under a lot of pressure. Often there is not enough quality time spent together. Within a hectic every day life disturbances are overlooked and stored subconsciously. NLP cannot protect you from the disturbances, but NLP counselling can help you identify what the disturbance is that prevents you from enjoying the relationship - and subsequently neutralise the negative emotion going with the memory and similar future experiences. Wouldn't it be nice to get rid of the "he always does this ..." or the "she never does this ..." in your relationship?
Illness
Many different factors can affect health: bacteria, genetic disposition, viruses, stress, harmful substances, negative emotions and many more. Health is a constant battle between the strength of the attack and the stability of the defense. Some disorders overwhelm anyones good intentions of a healthy living, and sometimes seeming irrelevancies as watching a movie can affect the immune system.
Western medicine distinguishes too much between physical illness and disturbances, which obviously are generated by the brain (like mood swings, behaviour right through to mental illnesses). The brain is the main organ in a human body co-ordinating the body's effort to maintain health. That means that health in general can be influenced by normalising brain function - counseling amongst others. A patient is neither always responsible for the disease, nor is a patient always helpless. Additional NLP processes to any medical treatment can add to the patients well being and healing due to a stronger response of the immune system (Mens sana in corpore sano).
Phobias and Trauma
NLP has become very well known for its success in rapidly changing phobias and post traumatic responses. This may take as little as half an hour depending on the precise nature of the problem. The change involves re-coding the way the memory has been stored in the nervous system.
Once we show the brain how to respond more effectively at the deeper unconscious level, it does that naturally, without even thinking about that consciously ever again.
Allergies
Allergies are described by the developers of NLP as 'fearful, or phobic, reactions of the immune system to some substances'. Some people are able to produce the allergic response just by thinking about being in the presence of the substance they are allergic to.
An allergic persons mind associates the feeling of an allergic reaction with a - for others - harmless substance. From then on, whenever this substance is in contact with the immune system, it responds inappropriately with the associated felling (= allergic reaction). With the NLP allergy process, we teach the immune system a more appropriate response by eliminating the feeling with the memory of any substance. In almost all cases a subsequent allergy test changes from positive to negative.
Asthma
With Danish government support a controlled research study on the use of NLP with adult asthma was conducted. Without teaching any new breathing or medical techniques, the control group participants were taken through NLP processes to teach their brain how to respond in a way a healthy persons brain responds (including using the one session allergy process). On a follow up a year later their use of inhalers had dropped to zero and the lung capacity had risen by an average of 200ml. The lung capacity of people in the control group without NLP techniques decreased by 50ml.
Cancer
There are surgery, radiation and chemo therapy offered for the treatment of cancers. Some patients' tumors disappear, in others it does not. Some patients do not want to have any treatment (or cannot as they are too weak), some get worse and some get better, even heal completely.
Scientific studies show, that the majority of people who are convinced they will get better, do get better. And that is the point, where NLP can help - and change the way you think and feel - and subsequently that can change the course of an illness.
It is not easy to increase self confidence and self esteem when you get the diagnosis of an eventually life threatening illness. NLP techniques can help you to achieve just that - and increase your self healing abilities.
Education
A one session process for teaching children labeled dyslexic to spell perfectly is worth more than hours spent diagnosing exactly what brain systems cause the problem. This is where NLP is different from some traditional modalities of psychology or counselling. In NLP the aim is not to give a label to what was wrong. The aim is to change to the better.
Personal Development - Life Coaching
The NLP approach to personal change is very simple it trains the unconscious mind to respond in the way that happy and healthy people do naturally, and this is not just useful to solve problems but also to create outstanding successes. Using the brain in this more effective way that leads to success involves learning new ways to visualise, talk to yourself and create enjoyable internal feelings which increase motivation.
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