Re: anorexia and bulimia
Dear Group,
Thanks for all your efforts, I really enjoy reading these
responses. I also appreciated Guy and Olivers feedback on anorexia
I have been sharing them with other carers who found the suggestions
very helpful thank you.
Take care,
Mair
>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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