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
Magic in Practice Review - Handling stress and challenge
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