The Health and Healing Power of NLP

Over 2 years ago, my Client woke up to giraffe like patches on his upper body and arms.

A few days before, he had experienced an extremely traumatic relationship break up.

On the day that the patches appeared, he was in an extreme state of anxiety and trying to come to terms with what had happened – all while attempting to function in his new job.

He found himself in the most stressed and unresourceful place he had ever been in his life and now with a skin disorder that only increased his stress.

The patches were disgnosed as Tinea Versicolor (also known as pityriasis versicolor) is a superficial fungal infection of the skin caused by the Malassezia species of fungus. It often appears as discoloured patches on the chest, back, or arms, and can reoccur under certain conditions (like humidity, heat, or oily skin).

It can also be linked to a compromised immune system after experiencing trauma and this was definitely the case for my Client.

Fast forward 2 years and the patches were still there. Coming and going with the ebb and flow of life. Various treatments had helped yet the patches never completely disappeared.

And as you can understand and imagine – they were the cause of embarrassment and disruption to this young mans life.

On the day that my Client came in to see me they were probably at their worst.

Through gentle questioning, we pinpointed the possible cause of this flare up – a new relationship had begun and even though this was a happy settled relationship – under the surface old emotions had been disturbed. 

The same emotions that were linked to the traumatic event (his previous break up) and also to the appearance of the skin patches.

To assist my Client, I used a blend of Time Line Therapy® and Parts Integration (one of the most amazing NLP techniques)

The purpose of using these is to remove old unresourceful emotions that exist on our past timeline. The main 5 are Anger, Sadness, Fear, Hurt and Guilt.

We hold these unresourceful emotions on past events and their only function is to reappear to disrupt our life in the present and distort our view of the future.

Over just 2 sessions we worked to resolve the past for my client.

Reframing his old experience and taking learnings and lessons – this allows the old unresourceful emotions to disappear and the learnings can be used to create the future that my Client desires.

The Integration of Parts brings the resolution of inner conflict and allows the different parts of us that do exist within nervous system – the integration allows them to see that they are working for the highest intention of the person as a whole.

The overall result is the feeling of calm and inner alignment.

Plus a brighter and clearer view of the future and all that it holds.

And for my Client – the disappearance of his Giraffe patches.

(These techniques are of course presented as complementary therapies and are not intended to replace any medical intervention . Instead, the intention is to work side by side with allopathic medicine – and for my Client, he got the result that he wanted – Amazing!)

Time Line Therapy® and Parts Integration form part of the Enhanced NLP Practitioner Training and are invaluable tools alongside Hypnosis when working with Clients for Health and Healing.

I hope that you found this article fascinating.

If you have any questions about Training with me or exploring your own Health and Healing journey - please do get in touch.