Magic in Practice : Introducing Medical NLP: the art and science of language in healing and health

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Cover; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Comments on the Second Edition; Foreword to the Second Edition; Foreword to the First Edition; Overview; 1: Towards Healing and Health: a solution-oriented approach; 2: Stress and Allostatic Load: the hidden factor in all disease; 3: Avoiding Compassion Fatigue: the dark side of empathy; 4: Words that Harm, Words that Heal: neurolinguistics in the consultation process; 5: Primes and Priming: the secret world of indirect influence; 6: Structure, Process and Change: the building blocks of experience; 7: Taming the Runaway Brain: three thinking tools.;This is the second edition of this highly respected introduction to Medical Neurolinguistic Programming, which remains the official handbook of the Society for Medical NLP. Based on the work of Dr Richard Bandler, Medical NLP has developed to become a discipline in its own right, guided by Garner Thomson. Revised and updated throughout, significant new sections have been added on: priming, breathing, heart rate, sleep, relationships and cancer, and lifestyle diseases. This is a key resource for all health practitioners who want to understand and improve the effects of what they communicated, consciously and unconsciously, to their patients/clients. Cover Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Comments on the Second Edition Foreword to the Second Edition Foreword to the First Edition Overview 1: Towards Healing and Health: a solution-oriented approach 2: Stress and Allostatic Load: the hidden factor in all disease 3: Avoiding Compassion Fatigue: the dark side of empathy 4: Words that Harm, Words that Heal: neurolinguistics in the consultation process 5: Primes and Priming: the secret world of indirect influence 6: Structure, Process and Change: the building blocks of experience 7: Taming the Runaway Brain: three thinking tools. Phase 1: Engagement8: The Rules of Engagement: managing first impressions Phase 2: Alignment 9: The Uninterrupted Story: beyond the 18th second 10: The Clinical Questioning Matrix: eliciting quality data Phase 3: Reorientation 11: Accessing Patient Resources: the potential for change 12: The Symptom as Solution: when the body speaks 13: A Different Kind of Reason: entering the patient's world 14: Getting to Where You Want to Go: directions, outcomes and goals 15: Thinking in Time: temporal language, permanent change 16: Medical NLP Algorithms for Change: steps to transformation. 17: Hypnosis in Healing and Health: the language of influence18: Coherence, Chaos and Octopus Traps: the presenting past 19: From 'Functional' to Functioning: restructuring dysfunctional states 20: Working with the Glyph: the shape of the unconscious mind 21: Re-patterning and Future-Pacing: making and maintaining change 22: Making Something of Your World: small changes, big returns 23: Nine Minutes and Counting: fast-tracking change 24: Communicating for Life: the way forward Glossary Appendices A: In the Eye of the Storm: activating the Relaxation Response. B: The On-line Brain: cross-lateral exercisesC: Medical NLP Algorithm: managing pain D: Strategies: the sequencing of experience A, B, C Index D, E, F G, H, I J, K, L M, N, O P, Q, R S, T, U V, W, X Y, Z Copyright.