HEALTH
What we usually hear about with cancer is all the negative
stuff. People don’t often talk about the positive aspects
Andrew Gransden Photography, Buckie
Creative visualisation Taking 3rd position also helped me to deal
Rosie describes a visualisation she created. with conversations in a way that wasn’t either good state for the operation and for medical
‘During the run up to the op, I spent part of “transmit or receive” (as an ex-RAF student procedures I would tend to dislike, such as
each day lying down, relaxing, visualising a of mine puts it), which freed me from my having needles inserted. Then reminding
white light with gold edges encircling my breast emotions.’ myself that “the mind and body are one
and keeping it safe. And I imagined a little bee system” encouraged me to take care of what
called Brenda busily wrapping up the cancer Presuppositions was going in my mind in order to promote
and keeping it away from the rest of my body. Many of the NLP presuppositions came into healing in my body.’
I still visualise the white light with gold edges, play. ‘In addition to remembering that “we Rosie also created her own circle of
knowing that white light is keeping me safe.’ all have our own maps of the world”, so the excellence. ‘This is a great way to create a good
Changing her perspective was also helpful, doctors and nurses didn’t necessarily see things state that you can take anywhere. I put one on
distancing herself by taking the ‘3rd position’ in the same way I did, I reminded myself the bed as I was wheeled into theatre, wrapped
of an observer. ‘Rapport was sometimes not that “all behaviour has a positive intention around me like a blanket.’
so good in the hospital. One nurse leaned underlying it” and “people are doing the best
so far into my space that, as my daughter they can at the time”, which helped me to Changing personal history
remarked, had she sneezed my head would understand not only where the medical staff Among the most powerful NLP processes for
have gone through the back of my chair! So were coming from but also the responses of Rosie during this time was the ‘change personal
I distanced myself, imagining I was a fly on friends and family. The one that says “we history’ process. ‘I had come across the work
the wall, and thinking, well, that’s how they already have all the resources we need, or of an American cancer doctor called W
understand the world, and it’s not about me. are able to create them” helped me to be in a Douglas Brodie, who had identified particular
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