NLP podcast extract: Garner Thompson on NLP and Health

"Well, my name is Garner Thompson and I'm the author of the book that you're talking about, Magic In Practice: Introducing Medical NLP, the art and science of healing and health. I'm a meta-master practitioner and trainer of NLP, and co-founder and training director of the Society of Medical NLP, which was developed specifically to develop NLP in terms of the needs of the medical professionals."

"I have an NLP and hypnotherapy practice in London, and I work as a corporate consultant and TV presenter. My work has always been largely focused on improving health and the well-being of clients"

"We take in energy in many different forms, food, air - information, is a big thing - and we should discharge entropy. That way we would maintain balance. In reality we don't do this. In our society for example, we're inclined to work very hard, involve ourselves in high-pressure activities, which are very good in themselves, and very challenging, but in this we sometimes don't have the ability to discharge the entropy and what happens is the system can go into disarray and decline."

"So people who are healthy can intuitively, or have learnt, to dissipate that. There are many different ways to dissipate things, and one of the ones that we find - it's the one that we refer to in the book as 'activating the relaxation response"

"But I do think it comes back to this, biggest single contribution to healthful life - and by healthful life I don't mean one in which disease and illness are absent, but where the individual can respond and react effectively from challenges. And that's the ability that I was talking about, to dissipate entropy - the metabolic waste - the ability to discharge that is important." "This does include techniques, such as the Relaxation Response."

"One way of course is exercise, we know we feel better when we take exercise, and that's very much because we're discharging excess adrenaline, excess cortisol - which otherwise is quite toxic."

"So if we stress up and we don't discharge this effectively then we will suffer the effects of chronic stress, while stress in sort term is actually very therapeutic for us - as long as it's not extended over a period of time."

"The Relaxation Response, is a very simple, very easy technique. Which also is used to recharge and re-balance the system."

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