A thorough understanding of sequencing will dramatically increase the options open to any Medical NLP practitioner – especially where time is at a premium. Sequencing, in Medical NLP, refers to the discrete components of a strategy and the order in which they operate1.

To put it another way, while patients and clients experience and describe their condition as a static, nominalised entity (“my depression”, “the irritable bowel syndrome”, “those anxiety attacks”), they are nonetheless engaged in a dynamic process. They are “doing” their problem, each step in the same order, with the same result. If the sequence is interrupted or altered, the end point changes.

Growing evidence of strong links between sleep disorders and serious health problems highlights the need for health practitioners of all specialisations to explore and apply effective treatments for insomnia. This blog updates members with the latest research, suggests several Medical NLP-based approaches to the problem, and offers a unique, free resource for your own use and that of your patients and clients.

Virgina Satir's remark to a young Richard Bandler that people would always make the best choices - when they knew they had them - for a long time seemed to me a somewhat rosy view of human nature (rather like Milton Erickson's belief that everyone had all the resources they needed to make whatever changes were necessary). After all, as health professionals, how often have we witnessed our patients and clients doggedly refusing to make the (superior) choices we offer them?