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How NLP
Cures PTSD Faster Than Other Methods
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a type of anxiety disorder that can occur after experiencing or witnessing a life-threatening event.
A disorder that often leads to complex consequences, PTSD is addressed through various traditional and alternative treatments. The traditional treatments include talk, cognitive behavior, exposure and group therapies.
On the other hand, the alternative treatments to PTSD are information processing, hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP). Specifically, NLP makes use of language in reframing, redirecting and reorganizing the brain’s coding experience.
Simply
put, through communication, NLP seeks changing the patterns of emotional and
mental behaviors. NLP is a greatly effective therapy and it’s benefits far
exceed any other form of therapy.
NLP
according to its proponents
Since PTSD is approaching an alarming proportion today, there needs to be a more efficient and effective PTSD treatment. NLP presents itself as a hopeful intervention for PTSD sufferers.
Compared to other treatments, NLP focuses on the structure of the trauma itself which the proponents describe as a super-stimulus. This means that the trauma is even more intense than the traumatic experience.
The difficulty of dealing with trauma is that it changes
how a person perceives reality and interprets the events happening around
him/her. The traumatic experience may be so strong that it can desensitize a
person, but even this is successfully addressed by NLP.
Founded by Dr. John Grinder and Richard Bandler in 1970s, NLP can actually lead in resolving emotional pain caused by the traumatic event. An NLP therapist does not act as the expert but rather a facilitator and coach.
There is a need for
an active participation of the client to achieve sense of ownership. In this
way, patient resistance, which is often a barrier encountered in other
therapeutic approaches, is addressed and overcome. NLP is more interactive
compared to other approaches and the intervention progresses with the
help of the patient.
How NLP
works
There are three components to NLP (neuro, linguistic and programming). Our nervous system, receives and processes our external environmental experiences through our senses. Verbal and nonverbal communication systems give meaning through neural representations.
Finally, programming is an individual’s ability of organizing communication systems so that goals and results are achieved. Through the mind and language, NLP helps in changing the way we perceive our external environment and then influences our body and our behaviors.
Through
NLP, the association between the memory of the traumatic event and its metadata
like emotions, is removed.
