In the following story, Sharon G., from Arizona, reports on her use of energy-based techniques to support her grandmother, who was in the process of dying. Sharon used techniques had learned from Debra.

Debra, I wanted you to know that my grandmother passed in a wonderfully miraculous way because the universe conspired to bring your words from dinner the night before into the circle of my family the very next day. While my grandmother was kept company by a cousin, I found myself in a break room in a circle of her two only daughters and her closest granddaughters. It was quite the coincidence because previously we were always with her in some sort of combination keeping vigil and never together...in a circle.

I openly shared what I had learned from you the evening before and I told them that I had just done the energy work with her that you had described. I also mentioned what you had said about no regrets, and that although in a coma she can hear us, and is still with us. I shared as much as I could remember from what you had said.

My aunt, my grandmother’s oldest daughter who is 78 herself, suddenly said that she remembered that she heard the Engelbert Humperdink song about regrets on the radio as she drove in that morning and she had started to cry. She has struggled with her childhood and has had a history of bitter emotions toward my grandmother, so I suggested she still had time to talk to her mother. She nearly ran out of the room to get back to my grandmother.

We all stayed back and stared at each other in silence. Then we started talking about our favorite times with our mother/grandmother and actually felt light and happy. I suddenly felt very compelled to check on my aunt and grandmother, leaving the rest within the comfortable circle of remembering.

When I entered my grandmother’s room, my aunt had just started to stand up and asked me if I could see if my grandmother was still breathing. My aunt said she had just finished talking with my grandmother and that she had started to breathe heavier and then stopped. Debra, she had just passed just after my aunt had finished whatever it was she needed to say.

So much peace was given to both that I am so grateful to you and the "coincidence" of the four of us trying to get together for dessert over the holidays. Little did I know what a blessing it would turn out to be for those you may never meet. Thank you dear friend for sharing your wisdom.

It makes me interested in doing volunteer work for hospice after seeing how ill equipped we all are in handling the inevitable passing that we all must do.

Love -- Sharon G. from AZ

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Debra’s note: Sharon did Chakra Spread—a Healing Touch technique developed by Catherine Fanslow and taught in Healing with Energy, Level 1 Subtle Communication Systems. The technique is also published in Healing Touch A Resource for Health Care Professionals, by Dorothea Hover-Kramer with Janet Mentgen and Sharon Scandrett-Hibdon, 1996.

In the following story, Mary Z., from Michigan, reports on her use of neurolinguistics to support her daughter, who was away from home and suffering from a deep depression.

I got a call yesterday morning from my daughter who is a freshman in college and has been experiencing some serious anxiety and depression. It’s amazing that this happened the day after the NLP classes ended. I’m not surprised, but always amazed at how things and people enter our lives when we need them.

I managed to NOT say, "don’t worry," which was difficult to do. Together we discovered the source of almost everything that was bothering her was two classes she felt she just wasn’t getting.

I asked her to close her eyes and imagine what a picture of one of the two classes looked like and then I had her change the colors until her feelings about that class shifted.

We went through the second class and did the same thing. We talked about a lot of resources she has available if she needs them. I then asked her to "just imagine what your life will be like when these classes are behind you," and she had the biggest smile on her face as she imagined that!

She thanked me and told me she felt so much better, and knew anything was possible. She then said, "I love you, Mom. You should take the pretty way home, you deserve it." So I did.

I want to thank you but I don’t know how other than to tell you I hope every trip home f or you is the pretty way home, you deserve it.

Mary

John S., a Physical Therapy Assistant from Ohio, writes: The NLP experience I had with Debra and Joel is something I will always remember because you are both like kindred spirits to me. It was truly me, times one hundred. The following stories shows how I am using NLP with therapy.

I wanted to share with you a way apply Hypnotic Protocol. I was working with an 80 year old woman who fell and fractured her left hip. She hadn’t walked in 3 months, and the most she was able to walk, as of last week, was 5 steps. Prior to my doing therapy treatments, Darlene [not her real name] had been in a nursing home for 3 months and hadn’t walked.

The Physical Therapist’s 5-week goal for this patient was 15 feet with a wheeled walker. This was based on how the patient performed for the therapist on the day of the evaluation.

I started by having Darlene practice a couple of transfers from the wheel chair to the recliner using her wheeled walker. She was able to do this with a contact guard/stand-by assist+1. One week before, this patient required a min/mod assist to perform the transfer, so I knew her legs were getting stronger.

When Darlene was sitting in the wheel chair, she said she wished she were able to walk again (prior to that statement, she always talked about the fall. Now she was moving to where the problem isn’t). After she rested a little, I told her that we would do a really fun exercise.

I pulled the wheel chair to one end of the living room and sat down beside her. I asked Darlene “Have you ever used your imagination?” and she said “NO.”

“You mean ... you’ve never imagined something as a child.” Then she smiled and said “Yes.”

“Great ... close your eyes for a moment ... it’s OK ... just close your eyes.”

“Imagine what it was like as a child ... a time in your life ... you can remember ... that’s right ... when you were at your best absolutely.... A time in your life when you can walk or run with ease ... this is a easy time for you ... and a time that is ... still inside ... a part of who you are.” And right after I said this, Darlene mentioned she had dogs, and she would run and play with them and this was a fun time.

So I added this in....

“And you had fun running with the dogs and playing.”

“Isn’t amazing to ... know this ... walking was easy in the past ... and will be easy once again. It’s always been a part of you ... from the time you stand up ... as you step forward with each step ... you’ll know how easy it is to walk ... now ... and only when you’re ready ... open your eye‘s with the anticipation of a child on Christmas morning.

“That’s right ... it’s OK.”

Darlene opened her eyes ... and stood up at the walker and began to walk ... while I followed with the wheel chair.

Darlene walked all the way to her bedroom, which was 40 feet away.

When we got in front of her mirror, I asked Darlene to sit in the wheel chair and asked her for a word or a phrase she would call herself. And her word was “GREAT.”

Darlene walked 40 feet X 3 this treatment.

Have fun using Hypnotic Protocol. And if you’re wondering if you should learn NLP ... I say, “Go for it ... and make someone’s life better!”