what is pain Bernie? pain is a...
- a signal -
a signal
is a messenger, very good
you paid attention this morning
pain is a messenger for the unconscious mind
so we got the pain
now firstly what we can do is in any pain system
is revert to the healer within
just check if the unconscious can do the healing
Now seeing that Bernie, said you were unsure about the signal
did you work with pain in your foot yesterday
when you were doing the...
you didn't, ok
so, let's just see if here I can work with as a signal first
just to see if we can set up a healing frame
before I show him how to let go of the pain
what can happen when you do a healing frame
or a healing within
there's gonna be a lag or period
unless the unconscious agrees to do it instantaneously
but sometimes there's gonna be a lag or period
a week or a few days
so they do a deal with the unconscious to be pain free
or you can do a submodality process which I'm about to do
tell them work with the pain
but I just don't want to take the pain out
without a healing frame in
because otherwise we are removing the messenger
he can find himself running quite easily for trains
I just wanna make sure that everything is positive here in this system
just close your eyes for a moment Bernie
connect with that pain
what I want you do to is as you feel that pain
the intention here is to set up a healing frame
so you can be pain free
and what I like you to do is to
ask your uncoscious
to increase or reduce those sensations in your foot
for a "yes"
and say in your own voice: unconscious
the intention here is to set up the healing frame
so please can you increase or reduce the sensations
for a "yes"
and tell me what happened
- sharp -
it's sharp
now let me go back down to as it was
say to the unconscious: Thank you
return to as it was
and see what happens if you make that happen consciously Bernie
can you make it go sharp consciously
- no -
no
that's the involuntary response
and this answers his own question from this morning
now, ask your unconscious to send the sensations the other way
to reduce in intensity
for a "no"
got it?
then go back to as it were
try make that happen
you got a "yes" and a "no"
so we know he's got a pain in his foot
we got a signal system
the next question does the unconscious know how to heal Bernie
the underlying condition
for what this pain is a messenger for
so I'm not talking about healing the pain
talking about healing the condition
whatever the pain is representative for
and if you're not getting a response
did you get a response
but you get a response in the pain going up or down
restate the question
unconscious
please can you affirm through the signal
of "yes" or "no"
which is a manipulation of the intensity of the pain in the foot
if you know how to heal this contition
or heal whatever the pain represents
you can say that in a way that makes perfect sense to you
because you know how to fix my foot
slightly up?
- sideways -
ok, so
ask if it a "yes" repeat it
if it's an "I don't know" repeat it
"not sure"
if it is a "no" repeat it
ok... "yes" is a "no"
ok, unconscious...
do you know how to organize my resources
to heal this pain in my foot or to heal the foot?
his unconscious doesn't know how to heal it yet
but his unconscious does know how to organise his resources
can you do it by Friday this week?
which is 3 days from now
there can see a "yes"
now the "yeses" are coming through
ask your unconscious to start that now
or take responsibility for organising the resources
and start now
we did the healer within format
didn't follow the reader's digest NLP steps
because he got
no movement to start off with
with the first question, does he know how to heal?
but it does its way it's like a step in between
no pun intended
step in between, does it know how to organise the resources
now, this is quite good because now he's got the pain
I show you how to deal with the pain
until Friday
and he can be pain free until Friday
when the unconscious can begin to heal
whatever is going on on his foot
make sense everybody?
so as a wise man once said you can have whatever you want, Bernie, in life
to the extent you pay attention
this is a metaphor
and when you don't pay attention
you pay attention in another way
and sometimes that is with pain
be it emotional or physical
so I'd like you to consider, Bernie, is there anything you wanna pay attention to
or is there anything you think you should be paying attention to
respect to
the current circumstances you are exploring
he got the "yes" signal
is something to pay attention to
is your unconscious mind willing to commucate this to you
whatever you want to pay attention to
in the next 24 hours
48 hours
he got it you see be a bit more patient Michael
so the unconscious is saying there's something to pay attention to
ok?
when
that unconscious sends a message
can you make it explicit
through the signal
so you know what it is to pay attention to
it's ok for you now, ask your unconscious to
work at being pain free
until the signal comes
and then return to be pain free till Friday
so, what the unconscious is now saying
it's ok to let go of the pain
the unconscious will send the message
he's going to know what the message is
and he's going to be pain free until Friday
we now decide to pay attention to
the next step is we are gonna look at
he is gonna create a healing metaphor
we are gonna find submodalities in this pain
and we are gonna move the pain
to different parts of his body with the pain and submodalities
then whoosh! he can let it go
this pain
in the foot
and I'm gonna cross map it
I'm gonna map it into a different system
to create a synaesthetic
relationship for it
if it had a colour, what colour would it be?
- I'm gonna say blue-
just have a look at the foot
imagine you look at the foot
you feel that pain Bernie
look at the shape
has it got a shape?
- kind of grey colour -
by getting the shape
it has got shape and it has got a colour
has it got a texture?
- yeah, sort of...
spongy but harder
harder than a sponge
is it heavy or light?
- heavy-ish -
hot or cold?
- hot -
what else you notice about this pain?
sensations, we move into the sensations
submodalities
some are visual, we've imposed the visual submodalities system on him
- was stabbing like a needle pin -
now we got this...
kind of needle-like, it's a metaphor
you got needle-like stab
now, shake that off
think a healing metaphor for you
what represents healing?
images and sounds and feelings come to mind that represent healing
football metaphor in terms of scoring a goal
so, the energy of scoring a goal he likes football
so how would you contain that?
if you was to picture that...
or create a small image or big image
how you really represent that in all modalities
what you see?
I'm not interesting in the content, what are the colours?
what are the sounds?
- a loud cheering -
loud cheering and a feeling?
strength
so we got these things
now, what I want you to do is we are gonna work a way the pains in the foot
I want you to think of three places in your body
you can move this pain to
or these submodalities to
and then let it out
come out of your body that way
so you can move it the knee, the other knee, hand, elbow...
anywhere you want
where is the first place?
that knee?
the hand
and the head
let's not go to the head actually
let's get somewhere else
you can change hands for example
the other foot
so, if you think about where would you put this
once we got this out your body
this grey spongy
stabbing like
sensation
where would you put it in the universe once is out of your body
- towards that road down there -
towards that noisy road down there
ok? fair enough
so firstly what I would like to do is think of the first place in the chain which is your right knee
I'd like you to imagine in this right knee
all the sensations that are associated with the football match and the cheering
all the colours
all the feelings
the energy
everything that's there is in your life
this is your healing metaphor
really focus or pay attention
to what's going on your right knee
feel that
and when you put your attention
this way on your right knee
what's happening in the foot Bernie?
- I still feel a needle... -
we haven't done anything with it yet but let's see what happens
now get it into your hand
which is the next place
bring that feeling
into your hand
I'm not talking about the feeling of the pain
the football energy
feel the football energy in the hand, Bernie
really feel it
that's right
hear sounds, the colours
experience the colours
the feel is really brilliant
focus all your attention
there
as you focus all of your attention
on your hand experiencing all of the energy
of that football match
now tell me Bernie
when you put all your energy and attention
on this hand in this way
what is happening with the pain in your foot?
- it's less intense -
less intense
we've not done it with the pain yet
we just put his attention in different places
so the other place is the other foot
same thing the other foot Bernie, focus all your attention
on the other foot
hear the sounds of this football match
the feelings, the energy
the cheers
the colours
and as you do this, tell me what's happening
with the pain that is in your foot
-not really feeling it... -
you're not feeling it
very good
so I want you to try and feel it again
a little bit
ok, fair enough
get what's left of it
and move it to the first place, bring it in to the cheering
bring it into the submodalites of healing
bring it into the energy
of the crowd shouting
bring it into that experience
now bring it into the hand
but in the hand
you've got the cheers
got the energy
bring it in
experience all of the cheers, the energy, the football match
all that in the other foot
and put
that sponge in there
sponge-like, grey feeling in the other foot
and now
as safe as it's gonna be for everybody else out there
if you are ready kick it out there onto the road
very good
get a sense you can know where it's posistioned in the road
got it?
tell me what's in that foot
the original foot
- I don't feel anything -
don't feel anything
he doesn't feel anything
now we wanna just to clean that
just put some of that football energy
into this foot
the cheering
the energy
the colours
the sounds
very good
open your eyes
good stuff
- yeah, good stuff -
stand up
put the weight on that foot
how is it feeling
ok?
tense?
- no, no -
you got no pain?
- a little -
just put a little bit of pressure but not too much
as just to say ok
very good, just take your sit back there
so, we've got it to be very little
I'm ok with very little
because he needs feedback
just ask you unconscious: is this feedback system?
you wanna take that bit of pain out, Bernie, or you are happy with it?
- I would like take it out -
so, there's a little
I'm just gonna move over here
he's got a little bit of pain left
to take that little bit of pain
just reconnect the healing chain
firstly
which is visualizing, hearing and feeling
the energy
the sounds
the images
associated
with the football match
in the knee
really connect with that
so, we're just going to build this chain again
and then the hand
and then the other foot
do it again
the knee
the hand
and the other foot
the knee
the hand
and the other foot
and then bring
what's left of that sponge
grey
feeling
into the first part which is the knee
and you can change the submodalities of that sponge
you can turn it into liquid sometimes people do
change the temperature a bit sometimes people do
maybe a different texture
bring it into
the hands
he's ahead of me
and then the other foot
just keep doing that until you're satisfied
he can move the foot around
satisfy that in the foot where the pain was
there's none left
- I think it's gone now -
you think it's gone?
test it, move the foot a bit
ok? very good
you can open your eyes
test it again
no feeling in there?
nice response, huh?
give him a round of applause