Yes but my only interest was the technique in which 'jon goodwin' was taught in his approach to the task...Yes it possible that anyone could do this yet, not all will try,and some would get hurt, as with the phobia my interest is funnily enough what you have written below.
Thanks I will look at the book....I can find stuff but some is too complicated to take in without proper explanation
Thanks...
Now the time is not wasted, I understood the physics , it was of no consequence to the question.
I shall definetly read 'frogs to princes'...Eureka...
I can tell you a bit more which will show how NLP is a form of hypnosis. This technique is used in a situation where a subject is relaxed. It's simply telling a story within a story within a .... and embedding a metaphor in a roundabout way to which the subject can relate after getting suitably confused.
Imagine you are recovering from and illness which has left you in a weakened condition. The chat then goes something like this.
I knew an old fellow once, a storekeeper who lived in a small town and whose hobby was whittling. That fellow could carve a beautiful object from any old piece of wood. His neioghbours admired what he did and many of them treasurted the pierces he gave them. But there was one piece he would never part with. That was the first piece he carved when his pop bought him his first knife from a travelling salesman called Jake who came by every few weeks, Jake travelled all over anmd always had lots of stories to tell about places he had been and people he knew. Jakes brother , John. had a son ,Jim ,who was born with a deformed leg so that he limped when he walked. Jim had a close friend , Chuck, who took him swimming in the creek and encouraged him to use his bad leg so that it would get stronger. Chuck's uncle, Edward was a travelling salesman just like Jake ,who sold the knife to the father of the whittler who gave it to his son as a birthday present, never imagining that the boy would make a name for himself in the town.
But Chick's uncle Edward ,unlike Jake, managed to get enough together to buy a small piece of land on which he built a house for his family and, in his turn he had travelling salesmen call on him. One day Chuck took Jim to meet his uncle and as they sat on the veranda drinking root beer, uncle Edward explained how he fell in love with farming. He loved to plant seeds and watch them develop in the sun and the rain. He could never fully understand how a little seed could manage to grow into a tall strong plant because it was so tiny. He simply wondered how it got so big and strong. He watched it produce a small. vulnerable shoot which slowly and almost imperceptibly grew a little bit stronger each day, a bit like someone recovering from an illness becomes gradually stronger without exactly knowing where the strength comes from, not that it really matters because the strength is inside the person like the plant is inside the seed. First a little shoot, then a second, then gradually growing stronger and taller because it's only a question of time and patience and these things happen whether we notice them or not, but we can be sure that with each passing day you are getting stronger and it won't be long until you have recovered from your illness and you will look back and wonder how it happened but you may never know or understand, in the same way that Chuck's uncle Edward could not fully understand how a small seed could develop into a tall strong plant but that was not really important because he knew it would happen as he had seen it all before and he simply knew that it would happen just as you know you are getting stronger every day even though you do not understand exactly what is going on inside your body and it doesn't matter that you don't know because it's enough to know that it is happening and you are feeling stronger day by day just as that little seed doesn't know what is happening to it. It just grows stronger and stronger as each day passes and in some way you are that little seed because you, too, are getting stronger without making an effort; it's just happening and you can feel this , so that is all that matters as you grow stronger and stronger...........................
That is just something I invented to give you some idea of the technique. The idea is that as you become interested in the story you gradually become confused as to what bit relates to another bit and a message of healing gets through to you when you give up trying to understand what is going on.
It's not possible to wholly convey what is going on in print. You must imagine you are in a relaxed state and the story is being told in a matter-of-fact way in a carefully modulated voice which becomes more and more monotonous as the story progresses. Another feature is that sentences run into each other in a kind of word salad making it difficult for you to follow.
You should have some idea of what NLP is about by now. There are other techniques and what is used depends on the practitioner and the subject.
Lastly, it is many years since I read Bandler's books so they may well be out of print by now, in addition to which methodologies may have become more streamlimed and effective. You are certain to find a lot of literature on the subject, if you wish to take it further. I have never practised NLP but I have removed phobias using desensitization and flooding.
