The Trauma Cure – Common Mistakes In NLP

I am but a lowly Practitioner.  I cannot claim the kudos a NLP trainer would.

Used to dissociate from traumatic event or a phobia the Trauma Cure, or Phobia Cure is the technique that I have found to be misused more than any other.  Given my lowly status how can I be sure I’m right about this?  Simple.  I’m self taught.

I have years of practice behind be sifting through forums and picking the brains of the trainers within them, patiently piecing together all the information gleaned from books.  Not an easy way to learn I assure you.

One of the first things I learnt were the top mistakes made by NLP Practitioners.  The number one mistake was failing to match what was going on in the brain of the client.  This can otherwise be stated as matching a technique to an event.

What does this have to do with the trauma cure?  For some reason we have people certified in NLP who come out believing the trauma cure to be a panacea.  This is deeply disturbing to me.

When a bored housewife (I happen to know one who blithely stated that if a rape victim still had issues after being taken through the trauma cure there had to be something else wrong with them . . . .  ) takes up therapy after eighteen to thirty six days of training they will imagine what it would be like going through events that they have no training or experience.  Imagining what is going on in the clients mind.  BAD PRACTICE.

Not that I object to members of the public taking up NLP because that is a good thing.  We need more.

I object strongly to them doing a shoddy job and placing the blame on a client. Ultimately this can cause NLP to lose credibility.

Another area in which the trauma cure is commonly misused is when a client has an anxiety.

A good example is fear of flying.  If there is a sudden emotional reaction to the thought of a flight, the trauma cure would be a good idea.

On the other hand if the level of distress increased as the time to go on an airplane drew ever closer another technique would be more useful.  Yes, I am aware change can still occur when using a process incorrectly.  Still.

I have also witnessed a Practitioner using the trauma cure as a process to remove all the negative events from someones entire life in one hit.  He would begin by rewinding events to the time of conception.

Unbeknown to his clients (there were many some famous sports people and politicians as he worked full time) the trauma cure isn’t designed to be used this way.  Although NLP is very resilient and you can make mistakes and get fantastic results I question the value of his work.

Hopefully this raises awareness of the use of this technique.  Be very suspicious of anyone who touts the trauma cure as a cure for all that ailes you.

Blessings,

Keri Eagan

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Body are fab.  Bodies are weird.  The scariest thing in the world is looking around yours and wondering what the heck is going on.   Maybe if it you chuck enough money/healing energy/attention you will be able to get things back to normal again.

Time and time again NLP has shown that the body can and will change if given the right mental and emotional circumstances.  Occasionally it has been shown to reverse symptoms of aging.

Before you get too excited, let me say this.  You can spend lots of time going through the various NLP techniques and still not get the result you were after.  Then again, you can work with an absolute novice fumbling with a manual and experience a miracle.  Use NLP enough and miracles become common place even if you are not that good.

One man stands out in this field as being EXTRORDINARY.  That is difficult to do because in the field of NLP and Hypnosis are a disproportionate amount of high achievers.  I doubt you have heard of him.  I’ve known about him for awhile now because finding out obscure healing techniques is my hobby.

This guy has facilitated people out of comas.  Even managed to help stroke victims out of paralysis…..drum roll please!

Introducing Dr Robert Fletcher.  I hope you are about to google him.  Good luck with that cause there isn’t much around to glean information from and of course there is more than one of them.  It appears Dr Fletcher has a quiet and unassuming type of character.  My kind of guy.

So how could you possibly facilitate healing in a comatose person?  Simple.  He uses ideomotor signals to talk to the unconscious mind.  Also he has documented (last time I checked) 80+ different metaprogrammes.  A key clue in the way he facilitates healing is that he utilises the way the body naturally alters over time.  Obviously if your body is changing over time this gives you a type of metaprogramme.

When my body turns into an alien being (many do) I want my family to give him a call, or at least one of his students.  Dr Fletcher has developed Thought Pattern Management (TPM) a series of techniques that appear to be closely related to NLP.

Blessings,

Keri Eagan