Re: Addictions change
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19961018153331.12efb1d4@goules.nat.fr>
Dear Bernard
I question whether installing a phobia to eliminate addiction is just
building fear upon fear(?) - that is, latterly, fear of current reality,
that predicates the dissociated addictive self.
I would refer all in our group to 'NLP World Vol 3 No 2', July 1996,
article on 'NLP: the Quantum Leap' ISSN 1022-2456. It is excellent - I
have re-read it many times over. In brief it says:-
1. Change happens instantly
2. Change is a concrete measurable process
3. Change is the expression of potential positions
4. Change is holistic, requiring a full ecology check
5. CHANGE IS THE RESULT OF FULL AWARENESS - NOT OF THE ACTION OF A
CONSCIOUS 'OBSERVER' AND 'OBSERVED PROBLEM'
6. CHANGE INVOLVES BEING IN A STATE OF LOVE - INCLUDING ACCEPTANCE OF
'WHAT IS...'
(My bold Text)
I cannot do the article justice without presenting it in full. For
further information, contact the publisher 10031,3620@Compuserve.com (I
have no vested interest). Much of this confirms your own strategies,
Bernard - but the difference is (paraphrasing the author, if I may make
so bold!) switching to a dissociated state involving all the other
dependents (OK, love if you will) such as partners, children and others,
which can result in a major reframe.
Please keep the postings coming: if NLP can solve addiction then this is
surely the ultimate testing ground for its predicates - of which I am
convinced. Incidentally, I posited this in an earlier posting to the NLP
Usenet group and received a reply from a well-known figure in NLP in the
USA that this was my 'belief' only: the obstacle was in my mind(!) For
NLP to gain credence we must accept that the process, any process for
addiction resolution must be demonstrable and verifiable - and that we
are dealing with a substantive problem for the people concerned.
Patrick Rea, London