Posted by Johnturner77 on June 23, 2000, at 8:30:14
In reply to Re: Phobias/Quickie Cures » Johnturner77, posted by Cass on June 20, 2000, at 14:16:59
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> > Richard Bandler of NLP fame says in his books that he thinks Phobias are very easy to cure. If you would like I could post a book list and an outline of the "cure"
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> John, I would appreciate that very much. :)I checked through the books I have and am not sure I can make it coherent enough from what info I have.
I am not an NLP practitioner and have some personal reservations about some of what they do.Here is a brief outline taken from Richard Bandler's "Using Your Brain For a Change" from the chapter, Points of View.
Imagine that you are sitting in a movie theator and on the screen is a black and wihite snap shot in which you see yourself in a situation just BEFORE you had the phobic response.
Then pretend you can float out of your body and up to the projection booth, where you can watch yourself watching yourself. From this position you 'll be able to see yourself sitting in the middle of the theator, and also see yourself in the still picture up on the screen...
Now turn the snap shot up on the screen into a black and white movie, and watch it from the beginning to just beyond the end of that unpleasant experience. When you get to the end stop it as a slide, and then jump in side the picture and run the movie backwards so that everything happens in in reverse. People walking backwards etc just like rewinding a movie, just remember that you will be inside the movie. Run it backwards in color quickly so that it only takes a few seconds to do...Weird huh? It works best obviously if you are a good visualizer. There are other techniques and an experienced therapist could deal with any problems that came up. To work it needs to be done quickly and vividly. Phobics are fast learners. Afterall, a phobia is often a one trial learning event.
hope this is of some help....
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