NLP: Self-Healing Techniques for the Body

In this exercise, it is especially important to set your goal correctly. In NLP, there is even a concept called “well-formedness conditions.” This is a set of requirements necessary to achieve an effective and ecological result. In neuro-linguistic programming, a specific goal is considered well-formed if it can be:

• Defined in positive terms;
• Evaluated based on sensory experience;
• Preserve the positive side effects of your current state;
• Adequately contextualized to ensure it fits with your external environment;
• The process of achieving this goal can be started, continued, and completed by the person who wants to achieve it.

Exercise: Allow Your Body to Self-Heal

The following exercise will show you how to program your mind for the automatic healing of illnesses and injuries.

1. Decide what you want to heal automatically: Is it an illness or an injury? (Set your goal correctly.)
2. Determine what sensations will let you know the healing process has started or finished: What changes in your feelings will occur when the illness or injury is gone?
3. Identify your personal sensation of automatic healing: Imagine something that reminds you of your illness or injury, knowing that it can heal automatically. Choose something that can resolve on its own (like bruises, cuts, or a cold).
4. Recall a time when an illness or injury healed on its own: Now, imagine this is happening right now. Notice how you picture cutting yourself in the present moment, knowing it will heal by itself.
5. Identify the difference in how you code the experience of automatic healing (step 4) and your illness or injury (step 1): What is the difference between them? Think about an illness that didn’t go away: what comes to mind and where do you sense it (right in front of you, in your body, or off to the side)? Now, go through these same questions for the experience of automatic healing (step 4). Note all the differences in how you code the experience. How does the area where healing happens differ from the surrounding tissue?
6. Now, recode your illness or injury the same way your brain codes experiences that heal automatically: From this point on, start perceiving your illness using the code your brain automatically recognizes as self-healing (use the information from Step 5). Project your unhealed experience into the space where you experience self-healing. The image of healing should fully match the experience of self-healing.
7. Make sure the injury or illness is truly coded for self-healing: Compare the sensation of self-healing with how you see your illness. Are there differences? If so, bring the two images into complete alignment. If self-healing is accompanied by words or sounds, project them onto the healing of your illness.
8. Create another example of automatic self-healing and place it in your past: The new memory should not differ from your previous memories.
9. Ask yourself: “Does any part of me object to automatic healing?” If the answer is “no,” move on to the next step. If the answer is “yes,” ask yourself: “What bad thing will happen to me if I get better?”
10. Ask yourself: “What can I do to support automatic self-healing?” Note what changes you need to make in your lifestyle to promote healing. If you have a serious illness, repeat the exercise daily until you are fully healed.