Re: anorexia and bulimia
Dear Mair
You wrote:
>I would be very interested to hear of other peoples experience of
>work with eating disorders and any recommended reading list on the
>same subject.
1/
I work with a group called Firebird corporate training. They train NLP
in various contexts like: business, leadership, sales & marketing, and
theraputic applications, etc. Nothing unusual about this.
One of their training programmes is called "Why weight?", which deals
with the basic idea that our beliefs and values about weight are why
we are shaped the way we are. Process work includes logical levels,
time-line, beliefs and values illicitation.
It is important to remember that the clients model of the world is
what gives meaning to their experience of their bodies and therefore
to remove your own judgement. This is NLP presupposition number 1 in
my opinion and I'm sure those of you with NLP training do not need to
be reminded of this.
2/
To support the above, in the intro to myself posted a few days ago, I
mention that I model my mother's substance abuse. I replaced the core
behavior, her alcohohism, with eating abuse. This takes the form of
believing food to equal energy and the usual "I am not worth ..."
patterns. I only eat when really hungry, and eat really badly. Badly
means sporadically and junk food. I'm not an anorexic but I am under
weight and very unfit. I'm just not ready to nurture myself with the
selflove I require. This is mirrored in my eating behavior.
Working on myself with NLP and the techniques Jenni was describing
a few week ago (thanks again Jenni), I'm correcting core values.
Values drive (motivate) our beliefs into behaviour (action). Some may
tell you that values and beliefs are not changable. I think that they
may be difficult in that they take more work, but are therefore more
important to shift.
Mair, I hope this offers you a framework in which to experiment.
Love and Light.
Oliver.
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