NLP and Health

NLP's application in Medical field could be trend setting and long lasting.
In India, the health sector focuses on diversified areas but not much
vertical growth. Reason could be that there may be too many options
available to people but people tried one and gave up, hop to next practise.
Whatever it be, the awareness that most of the illness is due to
psychological rather than physical should be improved.
We often erode our own fertile mind with weapons of worry and guilt. Why do
we often worry and feel guilty ? May be it is easy to do so ?!

* If a patient is taught on how to cure himself mentally, certainly he
would recover fast.
* How nice it would be if hospitals employ 'mental health doctors' who
speak to patients and improve their confidence.
* Even visitors can carry 'books on good hope' to patients.
* Medical shops may sell 'get well soon' cards.
* Trained counsellors may engage the anxious relatives and visitors on
how to handle the patients.
* Audio-visual proofs that somebody in the past recovered faster, will
alter patients mental representations.

Patients sometimes create more trouble for themselves by over-reacting. This
could be because of the past experiences they had or learnt. Even movies
have their role. So, movie directors can shoot films targetting the patients
for their betterment. (Teleshopping ads show that one can reduce weight in 7
days)

We as NLP practitioners shall start applying our NLP knowledge for the
betterment of ailing patients.

Ganesh

Balancing Emotions

It was a late Sunday evening (01 Aug 04). Some thought kept me away from
good spirit. A kind of "I wish I could have that" feeling was gripping me
so hard.

I tried disassociation, 360 deg graphics etc.. but the feeling was still the
same. I tried to change the submodalities : the feeling was warm, and heavy;
and my heart was heavy. Still it didn't work.

I recalled what Ashlesh told me sometimes : to locate the feeling and
relocate it to a different part. but when I tried, the feeling rolled to be
a sticky ball and refused to move.

My science knowledge (!!!) tried to convince me that the feeling could be
because of the bad weather (why should I blame the weather to be bad, by the
way ?), or it could be because of the spicy dinner (and the resultant
chemical reaction).

But how long would do I stay so ?! I wanted to change the state.

And that's the first time I get that "I wish I could have that" thought. I
knew very well "that" thing was NOT an achieveable goal / object. It was a
baseless desire. But some part of me was triggering this emotion.

I tried this : I assumed a light weight empty heart on the right side
(symmetrically opposite to my organic heart). I carried that feeling into
the new heart and started observing. Wow !!! I was feeling very comfortable.
This heart allowed me to carry this negative feeling. The feeling was light
and comfortably cold.

I looked to my left - the organic heart : I felt the currents in my organic
heart were balanced by this time and that I could breath normally. I felt
very light.

It was an instant relief. Nothing serves like NLP !

Counselling in schools

Recent crime reports make me think that school kids need
counselling-on-demand. The existing counsellors make themselves available at
selective time (6pm - 9pm). There are full time counsellors available but
not enough promotion is done.

Then, school teachers who do a secondary level of parenting also need
counselling.

Third, the parents themselves need counselling on parenting.

The current system of education makes all the three - children, teachers,
and parents - stressful and constantly pressurized.

All the three try to cope up with the pressure but most of the time end up
doing 'wrong' thing.

For example, parents abuse kids for not having scored the highest mark.
Teachers become symbols of arrogance rather than knowledge provider. The
kids find shortcuts to cope up with all the challenges before them.

My cousin absconded from home 10 years back on the eve of his Final year
Bcom results. We don't know whether he is alive or dead still. He was not
good at studies that his father, a senior bank official, found embarrased to
introduce his son to other colleagues. These kind of implicit demands
stressed my cousin and we lost him.

Four years back one of my raakhi sisters got engaged to her boyfriend. The
boy left to US for his MS while the girl was in Bangalore only. Slowly, he
moved away from her that finally the relationship broke. This girl
determined to do MS as a challenge to this boy and she completed her MS. But
the boy didn't bother at all. Finally she got married to some other guy. But
this didn't change her failure mode. What good reason she found to do MS
?!!!

NLP practitioners owe a lot to the society; And counselling in school is one
potential area.

Influence/Association

Now I believe whom we associate ourselves with really affects our personal
and professional growth. I don't know this magic works but I know it works
that way. I am impressed by words of Jim Rohn who was a mentor of TR.
Influence/Association by Jim Rohn
There are two parts to influence: First, influence is powerful; and second,
influence is subtle. You wouldn't let someone push you off course, but you
might let someone nudge you off course and not even realize it.
We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the
answers to life and business from one person or from one source.
Attitude is greatly shaped by influence and association.
Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count. Tune out the
shallow voices so that you will have more time to tune in the valuable ones.
"No" puts distance between you and the wrong influence.
You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are
they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me
saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most
important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big
question: Is that okay?
Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the
demands to perform are high.
Some people you can afford to spend a few minutes with, but not a few hours.
Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their
impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after
they have departed.