Something to think about from Dr. Wil Horton

Intro to NLP Today E-Zine

NLP Today E-Zine is a monthly series of articles that will bring you the best information in the world of NLP and Hypnosis. We will bring you articles that have been proven in the real world. Heavy with techniques and information you can use in your daily life, whether it's as a therapist with clients, business or sales, or just for self-development. We will get you the information you want and can't get. We focus on proven applications, not theory. Our trainers all "do the work." This is the difference that makes the difference. We cut the fluff and bring the main course. Mental Food you can use. NFNLP is the leader in this type of technology.

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NFNLP was well represented at the summer hypnosis conferences, the NGH and the IHF. We truly are leaders in the field of NLP and hypnosis. Thanks to all of you for helping carry out the mission of molding NFNLP into the premier user-friendly, real world NLP organization in the world. We are expanding worldwide, with new trainers in the Mid-East and Asia. Keep up the good work.

Remember, we have been blessed to be exposed to the life changing technology of NLP and hypnosis, let’s take this to the world.

Speaking of summer, as summer winds down, I am reminded of the old school essay assignment many of us received, to write “ What I did on my summer vacation?” Did you do anything special this summer? Did you do anything fun? What did you do out of the ordinary? What goals did you achieve? Also, since we are over half way through the year, where are on this year’s goals?

I also got some good info that many of you can use in your offices. See Theory into Practice.

From the Road:

Life is made up of moments, and sometimes you get one of those moments that you know will alter your life. The big moments come to mind, graduations from schools or military, weddings, and child-births, but what about those quite little moments that impact you and alter you perceptions, and by extension, your life? Watching my daughter graduate from Basic training, deciding to get married (bigger than the wedding) and getting my Psychologist license, learning NLP, my first client success, are those big moments, but the quiet ones are just as impactful.

In 1996 I visited Florida and watched the sun set into the gulf, and I knew I was going to live here. This summer just before the NGH, I was asked to do a play (one of my passions) I came home, the sun was setting, the weather Florida perfect, and I knew I was done being on the road 100 plus days a year. My office/training center will open the end of the month.

I have been truly blessed the last few years, traveling the world teaching NLP, the nation doing seminars. I have learned more than I taught.

A BLIND MAN CAN PLAINLY SEE MY BLESSINGS.

I am looking forward to the new challenge of the opening the new facility. l love working with clients, and training people, now I will bring them together in one place.

Theory into practice:

Here is an article that you can use in your offices. Read and enjoy. Our thanks to Michael Ellner for the article.

Mind-Body Technique Eases Kids' Gut Pain

By Jeanie Lerche Davis

WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD on Tuesday, August 05, 2003

Aug. 5, 2003 -- For kids with chronic abdominal pain, relaxation techniques can help them cope.

Some 20% of school-age children suffer from recurrent abdominal pain -- and for 10% of them, there is a real problem in the gut. But for the rest, the pain is often unexplained -- yet persists, sometimes into adulthood.

It's a big problem that upsets their quality of life. "Not only are these children in pain, they are missing school, making frequent doctor visits and may suffer from anxiety and depression," says lead researcher Thomas M. Ball, MD, MPH, professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of Arizona, in a news release.

His report is published in the July/August issue of Clinical Pediatrics.

In it, he describes using guided imagery therapy -- which combines relaxation, imagery, and hypnosis -- to help children gain control over their pain. Other studies have shown that the technique helps kids with other types of pain, says Ball.

The technique affects the autonomic nervous system -- the nerves that are involved in involuntary functions in the body, such as digestion. In essence, it taps the body's own healing power, he says.

Each child was trained in relaxation and guided imagery during four weekly sessions. Each filled out a daily "pain diary" three times a day to track the effectiveness of the technique.

* During the month of training, the children had 36% fewer days with pain.

* In the second month, "pain days" decreased an additional 50%. * Total decrease in pain days was 67% less within two months of starting therapy.

* Of the 10 children, seven showed improvement by the end of therapy and nine showed results one month later. Only one child showed no improvement.

The intensity of abdominal pain did not change during the period, but there were far fewer pain days, Ball reports.

SOURCES: Clinical Pediatrics, July/August 2003. News release

Technique and Tips:

As promised a while back (see July E-Zine), a new technique for chronic pain to be used with high functioning clients. Once you know the pain’s cause, and have a medical OK.

1. Explain how pain is electrical signals from the body to the brain. Pain is nothing more than a signal.

2. Talk about how people “Naturally” change their interoperation of pain based on the experience; Childbirth is an example, as are athletes who play with injuries.

3. See if client has ever had an altered experience of pain, or were they ever “to busy to get sick.”

4. Talk about how the brain sends the signals from the body to different parts of the brain, which will increase or lower the experience of pain. Relate back to #2, how a athlete will determine if the injury is serious enough to stop, or should they play through the pain, or a mother in childbirth thinks through the pain to the baby.

5. Explain that they are going to install a switch in their brains to reroute the signals.

6. Relax with a Dave Elman technique.

7. In trance have the client imagine the electrical signals coming from the body, up the spine and into the brain.

8. Have client install a switch that will reroute the chronic pain into a more manageable area, or one of slight discomfort.

9. Have them install a safety override, so if it is a new pain, or extremely severe, they will notice it.

10. Have them do the Red Ball technique for any other pain. (see archives)

11. Arouse them back to consciousness slowly.

12. Give reinforcement tape.

Here is another fast technique from Tyler Pratt

Boss Technique

To be used when you are in a situation where someone is yelling at you, or you’re in a position of disempowerment.

1. Dissociate from yourself; See yourself as a 10 foot giant, very powerful and strong.

2. Associate back into yourself as this huge powerful being.

3. Create a self up on the right hand side in front of you (and slightly down)

4. Take your right hand, with your index finger and thumb; put the person you want to “squeeze out” into your fingers. Squeeze them down to 2 inches in height, then place them on the self. Notice how high pitched and squeaky their voce has become. Like a mouse.

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