After her first NLP session the client is now doing all the things she was afraid of, including getting her mail, walking in and past the garden, and walking in the woods without the fear. On the testing, she seemed to do fine with the images. She knew exactly where the images were placed and the state of them, color, etc. The condition was a true phobia of snakes (a serious phobia where she became non-functional). In the re-writing of the movie technique and playing it backwards in color, she was able to remember her first experience. We did a Squash with Regression and also the "Circle of Excellence" to install some resource states. The childhood memory was that her mother had given her an apple as a little girl and she was supposed to throw the core into the trash, not on the ground. When she threw it to the ground anyway, and there happened to be a snake there, she had her first snake encounter and panic attack, so the event and response linked in her mind. There was also that symbolism she had heard from some Catholic nuns of using the snake for evil and equating the snake to burning in the after-life. (Probably the link of "she did wrong" - throwing the core on the ground - and a snake being there in "response" to her action!) Naturally a young, receptive mind absorbs the symbols without the logical rationalization that comes with age (and different teaching methods)!

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