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A simple mental technique for relieving the pain and suffering of
accidental injuries.
Author: Michael Bennett
When a physically traumatic injury such as a cut, sprain, or pain
resulting from an auto accident or a fall occurs, often the nagging
pain is a result of the shock of the incident. When the unconscious
mind understands how to prevent this kind of injury instant relief
of limiting stiffness and pain occurs. Thus the resulting pain is
a reminder that such learning is needed. To establish this learning
of prevention in an injured patient will result in instant relief
of limiting stiffness and pain.
The process of the traumatic injury relief pattern is a result
of NLP developers modeling the healing capabilities of a Peruvian
Shaman, and combining them with the long standing phobia cure model
developed by Dr. Richard Bandler, the originator of NLP. The process
is a simple one and will likely only take about 20 minutes to complete.
The process is as follows:
1. The first step to this process is to make sure the injured person
has been seen by a qualified medical practitioner to make sure that
all appropriate medical treatment of the injury has been completed.
2. The next step is to have the patient establish an observer position.
This can be done quite simply by asking the patient to replay the
memory of the incident as if they were watching it happen on a movie
screen, and they themselves are sitting in the projection booth
of the theater. Once this observer position has been accomplished,
then the patient should view the incident as a black and white movie
from the moment before the actual trauma occurred, all the way past
the end of it. In this step the patient should notice where their
error occurred. Have them notice and tell you what slight adjustment
in behavior they could have made that would have avoided the accident.
This adjustment should be the slightest adjustment necessary to
prevent the accident.
3. Now let's alter the associations the patient's brain has made
regarding the original memory. The third step is to have the patient
associate into the last frame of the movie (after the unpleasantness).
Associate means the patient is mentally observing the memory of
the accident from the first person perspective, the same perspective
they originally experienced it. Have the patient reexperience this
accident backwards, in color, fully associated and running the memory
backwards very quickly. Have them run the memory backwards in 2
seconds or less. Speed is important. Have them feel their body moving
backwards through the event.
4. Test by asking the patient how they feel. It may be useful to
reexperience the situation more than one time backwards. Note: the
process so far was originally developed by Dr. Richard Bandler for
resolving phobias. This process will remove the emotional and possibly
physical feelings associated with the accident, however does not
add resources.
5. Now have the patient mentally rehearse the incident again from
an associated viewpoint, 8 to 12 times (start fresh each time) forward
in real time. However this time, have them imagine the event happening
differently using the preventative behavior they learned in step
two. Have them invent a new experience using what they learned noticing
where they could have been hurt, but weren't.
6. The final step involves accessing various areas of the patient's
nervous system with the use of their eyes. NLP practitioners have
been aware for a long time that our eyes move to access various
storage locations in the mind to recall past experiences. There
are six major sections of the mind broken down into visual, auditory
and kinesthetic storage locations. Our life experiences are divided
up and are stored in these different locations.
Watching the eyes and where they move allows a NLP practitioner
to know what internal processes a client is using to represent their
current experience. The eyes can also be used to gather stored resourceful
experiences that can solve client problems. In the case of traumatic
injury, a patient may only be accessing one or two sections of their
nervous system to find relief from their accident. The answer to
resolving it may lie in a different experience stored in a different
location of the mind. The next part of this pattern helps the patient
scan for more resources in their own mind.
While the patient thinks about the traumatic event, have them follow
your index finger with their eyes as you move it in a figure eight
pattern in front of their eyes. Make sure you are moving your finger
in an upward movement when crossing the midline of the figure eight.
Sometimes people get dizzy or nauseous when there is a downward
movement.
I know you will find this to be an amazing therapeutic process
for those you are helping to recover from a traumatic injury. If
you're not a medical doctor, I suggest you have the client seek
a doctor's advice prior to performing this pattern. Once you are
sure that needed attention has been provided, use this pattern and
it will remove most if not all limitations normally associated with
recovery of traumatic injuries.
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Michael Bennett is a master practitioner
and trainer of NLP and Hypnotherapy, licensed and certified through
the Society of NLP. He operates a school for teaching these disciplines
to health professionals and persons interested in improving the
quality of their lives.
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