Exploring The Mind - Body Connection

The scientific proof of the mind-body connection is relatively recent, as far as scientific time lines go. Before indepth studies and painstaking research took place and physicists discovered that the atom is not the smallest unit of matter, scientists believed that only matter can affect matter. As we moved away from the old models of Newtonian physics and into the new world of quantum physics, it has become clear that energy affects matter.

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So how does quantum physics relate to NLP? Here’s how…

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Energy affecting matter = Mind (energy) affecting the body (matter).

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The evidence of the mind affecting the body came with research into neuro-transmitters. Early science told us that neuro-transmitters only operated within the brain. Now, science has demonstrated and proved beyond doubt that actually neuro-transmitters are present throughout the body. This is the very proof we needed to substantiate what we in NLP have known for some time, that the mind and body are inextricably connected and mutually supportive.

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Neuro-transmitters are chemical in nature. Their role is to transmit messages between our neurons across the minute space between the neurons known as the synaptic gap (flash back to school biology?). So communication via these chemical messengers is happening throughout every cell in your body, though your whole neurological network and you have (1010)11 neurological connections within your system. That’s more than the number of grains of sand present on the whole of our planet!

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You have around 50 trillion cells in our body. Imagine that each one acts like a hologram. Now, the really interesting thing about a hologram is that if you break up the holographic plate into tiny pieces, each individual piece will still project the entire picture. Imagine now that all of our conscious and unconscious content is contained within every cell of our body carried by our neuro transmitter system. This gives us as NLP Practitioners a wonderful and exciting opportunity to positively assist the whole person, mind and body.

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The information from every thought you have is transmitted to every cell in your body and makes changes there. This process isn’t simply chemical, it is energetic.

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The average adult has around 50 trillion cells that make up the incredible structure that is the human body. Each of those cells generates approximately 0.07 volts of electrical potential. Let’s do the maths.

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0.07 x 50 trillion cells = 3.5 trillion volts of potential energy.

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Now imagine that much energy being channelled towards your health and personal healing!

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There are many stories, some related in books such as The Heart’s Code by Paul Pearsall and A Change of Heart by Claire Sylvia, which describe how recipients of organs donated by people after their death had also received some of the memories and behaviours of their donors, even though the law prevents them from knowing anything about them. The memories came along with the donated organ as information stored in every cell of the donated organ. The information was then passed into the whole system of the new body and absorbed by every cell.

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Even in our own NLP and Hypnosis Practitioner Certification Trainings, we have seen miraculous changes in people’s physiology caused by the changes they made to their thought processes and belief systems.

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In one training, a lady who had no feeling down her left leg due to an accident some years ago. A horse she was working with reared up and fell backwards onto her, trapping her legs beneath it’s huge body. As a result of the accident, she lost all sensation to the nerve endings down her left side. Horsey people are really stubborn when it comes to getting back in the saddle, even after a traumatic injury and she learned to ride again, without left side sensation.

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During her Enhanced NLP and Hypnosis Practitioner Certification training, she worked on how the trauma of the accident was held in her mind and quite suddenly, changes began to happen. Within the space of a couple of hours, she got sensation back down her left side. A tingling at first, then uncontrollable shivering, then feeling returned. It was a privilege to witness such amazing changes taking place. Of course, she had to learn to ride again, this time with the feeling back in her left side!

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At another of our Enhanced NLP & Hypnosis Practitioner Certification Training, we were joined by a lady in her mid-30’s who had been diagnosed with  Fibromyalgia. She was taking a cocktail of drugs for her pain and her prognosis was that she would be in a wheelchair by the time she was 40. By day 4 of the training, the condition had completely disappeared.

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How? She simply changed her relationship with her body and the beliefs she held about her diagnosis. She is now 42 and remains drug and pain free. In fact, she has actually trained as a fitness instructor, runs every morning and has taken her NLP Trainers Training with us too. She now trains others in NLP and invites them to move beyond their diagnoses and to channel their own vast potential energy into their personal healing.

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All this evidence means that we can fully adopt the belief that the mind-body connection exists and that we, as Practitioners of NLP can utilise this natural mechanism to help clients improve their physical as well as mental wellbeing.

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The all new Heath and Wellbeing section of our NLP Master Practitioner Programme contains a wealth of information and guidance of how to work holistically with a client, for total health and wellbeing. Now that would make you a Practitioner worth investing in, wouldn’t it?

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