Pain relief

NLP is a skill set that is used in all sorts of fields from education, training, management, sales and medicine to name but a few. When learning about NLP for the first time people often wonder how do I apply these approaches in my line of work.

There are quite a few medical practitioners using NLP in their daily work. In this talk to the West of Scotland Pain Group Jonathan Bannister (anaesthetist) and Garner Thompson (trainer) discuss the application of simple NLP principles in a medical context. If you are in this line of work yourself you might like to listen into this discussion of NLP in action.

If you are a complete newcomer to NLP you might want to check out our three day Introduction to NLP that IntegrityNLP will be running later this year in Newcastle. If you would like to attend an NLP Practitioner training then we are starting our next on in September this year (I know that sounds like a long time away, but the earlier you book the less it costs).

Last week one of my clients had expressed an interest in mindfulness meditation for pain relief. She was looking for some general information. I offered to lend her my copy of Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat Zinn which is one of the earliest and most comprehensive books on the subject

Since I have quite an interest in this topic I did some searching on the internet for her and came up with this simple introduction to the subject from National Public Radio: Meditation a Hit for Pain Management

For a more in depth look at the field of mindfulness the excellent All In The Mind from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation had a 30 minute program devoted to ‘Dr Mindfulness’

If you are particularly interested in mindfulness in pain relief work you might like to listen to this podcast from the West of Scotland Pain Group (no, it’s not a masochism organisation) but a group of doctors based in the West of Scotland that sponsor talks of interest, record them and post them onto the internet for the benefit of their far flung colleagues. This particular talk takes a while to get going and includes a lot of uhms and errs but the content is interesting.

Last week I had a bit of a head cold. On Wednesday morning was woken at 4.20am by toothache of the face. If you’ve ever had sinusitis you know what I mean, a dull ache behind the cheek bones.

After trying to get back to sleep for a while, I realised that it was going to be a bit of a struggle. I decided that I didn’t have much to lose so I started using EFT on the symptoms.

Even though I’ve got toothache of the face …..

No change.

Random thoughts about how this wasn’t going to work wandered through my mind so I tried …

Even though I don’t think this is going to work …

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On Wednesday January 31st I’m giving a free talk about the use of EFT in pain relief. The talk will be at the Bodywork Centre in Hexham between 1:30pm and 3:00pm.

If you’d like to come along please contact them on 01434 601 577.

Remember to bring your aches and pains with you!

From an article in Science Daily, reviewing research into psychological approaches to chronic back pain.

Psychological interventions for chronic low back pain are effective, a new review of studies has found. Not only do these approaches improve psychological outcomes such as depression and health related quality of life, they also reduce patients’ experience of pain.

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Dr Tom Flowers in an emergency physician (A&E doctor if you’re in Britain) in Texas. He’s got an interesting collection of testimonials, one of them is a video of his brother in law who had an horrific car accident. He met his brother in law at a wedding and showed him how to use EFT in a pizza parlour with excellent results. The story is recounted here (click on the testimonial of Don).

Most people haven’t a clue what goes on in EFT sessions, so it’s very nice to be able to present an client’s eye view. This client very kindly offered to write up her experience of four EFT sessions we had around the theme of caring for a cancer patient. It’s quite a long letter so I’ve split into into two posts.

“I wasn’t sure quite what to expect when I first met Andy Hunt. A friend had passed on his details to me as she knew my father had sadly been diagnosed with terminal cancer and it was clear our family was in for a rough few weeks. I just saw the title of the sessions he was offering – ‘Cancer: Softening the Blow’ – and thought that it wouldn’t harm anything to see what it was all about.

He is a very personable man who is quiet and extremely good at really listening to what you say. At first, I thought we would spend the time in traditional counselling mode – e.g. me talking and him listening and asking occasional questions. Nothing could have been further from what actually happened!

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