Healing Through NLP: A Cure for Psoriasis
By Lech Debski, M.D.
I have a friend who had a severe case of psoriasis, for which she had been heavily medicated. I cured her using a method described in Heart of the Mind by Steve and Connirae Andreas. It is based on a submodality technique called "mapping across." I didn't quite believe that the process would work, and I was pleasantly surprised by the results.
First I asked her how she represented her psoriasis in her mind and elicited the submodalities of that representation (the size of the image, where it was situated in space, etc.) Then I asked her to think of a similar disease from which she recovered quickly and easily. She thought of some kind of skin rash she had at one point in time. Then I did a contrastive analysis: what were the differences in the submodalities between those two representations. Next: mapping across: I told her to change the submodalities of the psoriasis representation into the submodalities of the disease representation from which she had recovered. She experienced dramatic physiological changes at that moment--intense heat, strange feeling on her skin, etc.
Then I used hypnosis with her, giving lots of suggestions for her unconscious mind to heal her. I remember saying, "I know that in the past there were good reasons for you to get psoriasis, but now they are no longer valid. And that you may use all your creative resources to provide you with better ways of achieving the same outcomes that you used to achieve through the psoriasis that you had" (a kind of shorthand 6-step reframe).
Her skin cleared almost completely within a week. A few weeks later she had a relapse. I simply did hypnosis with her, and suggested that as her unconscious mind already knew how to heal her, it can do it again. It did so. A couple of months later she had another relapse. Again, I used hypnosis. I gave her suggestions to get better, then in three weeks time to have a relapse that would be much weaker and would last perhaps as much as an hour or two. Then in six weeks she was to have a relapse that would be even weaker and even shorter. Then, in four months, she was to have a third relapse, lasting only five minutes and barely noticeable before her skin cleared completely and permanently. She had three relapses (I wouldn't be surprised if they occurred in the times that I suggested), but they were very weak and very short in duration. That was almost two years ago. Since then, she has had no problem with psoriasis.
Lech Debski, M.D. is a psychiatrist and NLP Master Practitioner and NLP Trainer Associate living in Gdynia, Poland.
