When you need to distance yourself from something you wish to tell a patient, client, colleague, or someone else important to you, use a quotation that attributes the suggestion to someone else. The quotation doesn’t have to be one hundred percent accurate to be effective. Many of the quotations attributed to Einstein, for example, are apocryphal, but gain authority from the “halo” effect.
Any back surgery, whether major or minor, is not to be considered lightly. Recently I heard a comment at the International College of Integrative Medicine conference in Lexington, Kentucky, “There’s no back problem that surgery can’t make worse….”
Even the tobacco companies now admit that that your health will improve when you become a former smoker.
As the “Lightening Bone Setter” Dr. A. T. Still is quoted in The Osteopathic Difference (by William J. Faber, D.O. and Jason Haxton, M.A.), “It takes time for any new discovery to be well accepted.”
Send your questions about how other-than-conscious communication skills can hurt or help your patients and clients to Joel P. Bowman (Joel@SCS-Matters.com) or Debra Basham (Debra@SCS-Matters.com), co-developers of Subtle Communication Systems. We will provide answers to those for you. For more information about Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis or Hypnotherapy, or about the Imagine Healing Process, visit:http://ImagineHealing.info or http://SurgicalSupport.info.
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