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

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.