RE: anorexia and bulimia
Dr. Edwards,
My name is Thomas and I have been looking for some business applications
for Nlp. If you can help me let me know.
Thanks,
Thomas
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>From: Dr T A Llewellyn-Edwards[SMTP:tamlyn@tygoch.win-uk.net]
>Sent: Thursday, November 28, 1996 12:29 PM
>To: nlp-addict@mygale.org
>Subject: Re: anorexia and bulimia
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>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.
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>Take care,
>
>Mair
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>>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.
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>>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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