Thread: Magic in Practice Review - Handling stress and challenge

Magic in Practice

"Those that say it can't be done should not interrupt the person doing it"......Chinese Proverb

Its about art and science of language in healing and health. And a lot more.

I'm extracting a small section in chapter 3 that I found particularly interesting. It's is about individuals that handle stress and challenge particularly well and you can use to get an indication of how effective you are at handling stress and challenge.

Simply give yourself a score from 1 (a little) to 5 (a lot) to the following questions for six seperate topics. It will give you an idea of your own possible strengths and weaknesses.

Social Support and Connectness

Question - How much support do you get from your familly and friends?

A sense of control

Question - How much control do you have in your life?

Predictability

Question - How well do you cope with unexpected events?

Expectation of improvement

Question - How much do you expect your situation to improve?

Meaning purpose and spirituality

Question - Two questions, score the second! What do you find helps when you have a problem or challenge? How much does this help?

Dissipation

How much downtime do you allow yourself. With particular regard to things like light aerobics workouts, yoga, meditation martial arts - and which you genuinly enjoy?


If you haven't yet got the scores you want there are many, many NLP approaches to help you enjoyably improve them.

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I'm adding this because I think its one of the most important NLP books published recently. If you're interested in the topic its well worth buying. The above is just one example from the book. It's particularly relevent to any one in the medical community.


Magic in Practice by Garner Thomson with Dr Khalid Khan

Book content includes:

Part 1 - Rationale

Chapter 1
Towards Healing and Health: A solution orientated approach

Chapter 2
Stress and Allostatic Load: The hidden factor in all disease

Chapter 3
Avoiding compassion fatigue: the dark side of empathy

Chapter 4
Words that harm, Words that heal: Neurolinguistics in the consultation process

Chapter 5
Structure, process and change: The building blocks of experience

Chapter 6
Taming the runaway brain: Three thinking tools

Part 11 - Realisation

Chapter 7 (Engagement)
The rules of engagement: Managing first impression

Chapter 8 (Alignement)
The uninterrupter story: Beyong the 18th Second

Chapter 9
The clinical questioning matrix: eliciting quality data

Part 111 - Reorientation

Chapter 10
Accessing ptient resources

Chapter 11
The symptom as a solution: When the body speaks

Chapter 12
A different kind of reason: Entering the patients world

Chapter 13
Getting to where you want to go: Directions, outcomes and goals

Chapter 14
Thinking in time: Temporal language, permanent change

Chapter 15
Medical NLP algorithms of change: Steps to transformation

Chapter 16
Hypnosis in healing and health: Language and infuence

Chapter 17
From 'functional' to 'functioning': Restructuring dyssfunctional states

Chapter 18
Repatterning and future pacing: Making and maintaining change

Chapter 19
Communicating for life: The way forward

Appendix A - The relaxation response
Appendix B - Crosslateral excercises

Resources, refernces, glossary