From: Dr Tomasz Kopec, General Practitioner

I have been working as a GP for ten years. 

Three years ago I became a licensed NLP practitioner and have since been using my NLP skills, mainly for my own sake.

I recently enrolled in Medical NLP course run by Garner Thomson to learn how I can utilise these skills in my professional life.

After the course I found that NLP helps me to work as a medical professional in at least four different ways:

Our grateful thanks to Laurent Carrer, Ph.D., for permission to post this article:

Some of us will argue the history of our profession begins with Milton Erickson. This exceptional psychiatrist of mythical proportions literally trance-formed our understanding of the unconscious, and his work has had a profound influence on many modern-day masters of change technology such as Richard Bandler, Anthony Robbins and Tad James. He promised his voice would go with us, and it still does, through wonderful transporting stories passed along orally and in written form..

But Dr. Erickson did not emerge out of a vacuum. The roots of our profession extend much deeper, and some of the 20^th Century techniques we regard as revolutionary were already in use hundreds of years ago.

A surprising number of inquiries we receive come from practitioners working with people diagnosed with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Several of these report  patients suffering from repetitive auditory symptoms, such as a tune that seems to get "stuck" in the head.

While bearing in mind that OCD often results, at least in part, from over-activity of the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and will probably require further treatment, here's a quick technique that is often successful: