Using NLP and Time Line Therapy™ Techniques while Healing Cancer
Copyright © 1996, 2002, 2004,
Tad James, M.S., Ph.D.
Using
Time Line Therapy™
in
a Medical Practice
by Eric B. Robins, MD
TLTA Advisory Board Member
The
following article is reprinted from the
Journal of the Time Line Therapy Association
(TLTA) with permission of Dr. Robins
and the TLTA.
My
name is Eric B. Robins, MD. I am a urologist
with a large HMO in Los Angeles. I did my
medical school training at Baylor College
of Medicine in Houston and then completed
six years of residency at the University
of Southern California/Los Angeles County
Medical Center. I have had a long-standing
interest in how the mind affects the body
and have found Tad James' work extremely
useful in helping me to form some understanding
of the processes which are happening. Not
only have I gained a greater understanding
of these processes, but with Time Line Therapy
(R) there is a tremendous opportunity to
intervene.
Let
me explain to you in the way I frequently
tell my patients. Keep in mind that my patients
are coming to me because they have real physical
complaints and they want real physical solutions.
Often patients come to me with somatic complaints,
like pelvic pain, urinary frequency and urgency,
impotence. I will usually perform a standard
workup to make sure that I am not missing
a serious problem like a cancer, or an infection
or a serious neurologic ailment. Once the
tests come back negative, I will have the
following dialogue with my patients. Keep
in mind that I need to be very careful with
my wording so as to not anger or offend these
patients (after all, they are coming to see
a urologist, not a psychiatrist). I usually
say to them, "negative emotions and
stress are stored in the body, and you know
this because you can't feel negative emotions
or stress without feeling them as tensions
in the body. after all, people don't say "I
think anger", they say "I feel
angry, or I feel depressed."
Usually
after I say this, people have to go inside
themselves to verify that what I'm saying
is true. Next, I say, "because negative
emotions are stored as tensions in the body
they create real physical changes. These
tensions seem to block the body's natural
flow of healing energy. I usually do not
go into depth about this although I could
talk to them about the work of Dr. Paul Goodwin
at Alaska Pacific University who has shown
that negative emotions and unconscious parts,
where they are stored in the body, create
functional boundaries in the nervous system
(i.e. the body's own natural healing energy
cannot flow to that part of the body).
I
go on to explain that one way in which negative
emotions and stress can really affect the
physical body is by causing tension in the
smooth muscle. Smooth muscle is muscle which
is normally controlled automatically by the
body without our being consciously aware
of it. For example, if there is tension of
the smooth muscle of the blood vessels in
the body, you get.....hypertension. And if
there is tension in the blood vessels going
to the head, followed by overdilitation,
then this causes migraine headaches. If there
is tension in the smooth muscle of the bronchial
passages of the lungs, we call it asthma;
and if there is hyperactivity and stimulation
in the smooth muscles of the colon, we call
it irritable bowel syndrome (which, by the
way, accounts for 50% of all visits to a
gastroenterologist). When the smooth muscle
of the bladder or prostate gland is affected,
then patients come to see me. So, as you
can begin to understand, what I do is not
just about urology: every field has a large
number of patients who had disorders related
to them storing chronic stress in their smooth
muscle. A large number of gynecological complaints
are related to hyperactivity of the smooth
muscle of the uterus and fallopian tubes
(the uterus is made up primarily of smooth
muscle), which may cause pelvic pain. Frequently
a search for the etiology of this pain comes
up with the misplaced diagnosis of endometriosis
or ovarian cysts (I say misplaced because
a large percentage of normal, asymptomatic
women also have endometriosis or ovarian
cysts).
I
have another belief, which is that most people
are aware of subtle changes in the function
and energy flow in their bodies. The problem
is that they don't know that they know. For
example, since negative emotions and stress,
where they are stored in the body create
blockage of the body's own energy, people
get functional problems. This means that
people have the feeling that something isn't
functioning right, however when doctors do
various tests we usually do not find any
structural abnormality. For example, a woman
might come to me and tell me that she has
to urinate every 15 minutes, yet when I look
into her bladder with a cystoscope, everything
inside looks normal, and the bladder can
hold a normal amount of urine, but this patient
is having real physical symptoms. To these
patients I suggest that they may be storing
stress in their pelvises, and that this stress
is creating changes in the function of their
bladders even thought I can't find anything
physically (anatomically) wrong. What I never
do is tell people that something is in their
heads. This is the quickest way to lose rapport,
and yet I see patients all the time who have
been told this by other physicians.
What
is so revolutionary about Time Line Therapy™ is
that when it is successful, negative emotions
are cleared out of the body. What this means
is that the functional boundaries in the
nervous system are cleared out, so that the
body can begin to heal itself like it is
supposed to in the first place. When therapy
is completed, patients cannot "feel" the
negative emotion in their bodies. What has
fascinated me about Time Line Therapy™ is
that if there negative emotions were creating
a functional boundary in the nervous system,
then if they are cleared out once and for
all, then the person should have changes
in their physical health (you can also calibrate
a physiologic shift in the way they look,
sound, breathe, etc.). This has been the
exact focus of my work for the past three
years, to see if physical changes (improvement
in health) can be established in this manner.
My results have been very encouraging, and
I will next give a case report, along with
some important distinctions that I have made
along the way using this stuff in a medical
context.
J.L.
is a 37 year old male who was referred to
me with a 17 year history of chronic prostatitis.
For much of this time he had been taking
various antibiotics, and these had created
havoc with his stomach. Chronic prostatitis
is an inflammation of the prostate gland;
it causes symptoms such as lower abdominal
and testicular pain, urinary frequency and
urgency, and occasionally burning during
urination. What is interesting about chronic
prostatitis is that 92% of the time, there
is not an associated infection; i.e., the
prostate is inflamed and malfunctioning and
we don't know why. When I first spoke to
this patient I told him that frequently negative
emotions can be stored in the body and cause
real physical changes such as those he had.
He mentioned that he had a tremendous amount
of anger directed toward his mother who was
very abusive when he was growing up. As with
many responsible people in society, the options
for dealing with anger are either to go around
punching people out all day, or holding it
inside. He did the latter. After one 2 hour
session of Time Line Therapy™, we had
succeeded in clearing out all of his anger.
At a 4 month follow-up, he remained symptom-free.
I would like to diverge for a moment to discuss
a technique that I use which has been helpful
in getting patients to decide to let go of
negative emotions.
In
the context in which I see patients, they
frequently are not aware that they have negative
emotions. It's not like being a psychiatrist
where patients come in with the full knowledge
that something is emotionally wrong. In my
field, not only do I need to convince patients
that their problems are real physical changes
resulting from negative emotions, but then
I need to get them to the place where they
are willing to let go of them. Usually when
a patient has a negative emotion like anger
towards someone who had done them wrong,
I will question them in the following way.
I'll say, "is the anger which YOU have
stored in YOUR BODY affecting the person
who hurt you?, is YOUR anger helping to improve
your health?, is YOUR anger helping your
relationship with your spouse or kids?, is
it helping your performance at work?" It
is usually possible to get someone so worked
up that they readily will release the negative
emotion during Time Line Therapy. Note also
that the above languaging strongly puts the
patient at cause. This is extremely important.
The way that I can love my patients the most
is by gently but persistently putting them
at cause. Anytime patients try to blame something
outside themselves for their disease, they
are less empowered to heal themselves.
I
frequently will refer patients to any of
the books written by Dr. Bernie Siegel. As
you may know, Bernie is a cancer surgeon
from Yale with 30 years of experience. He
noticed that certain groups of cancer patients
did much better than others as far as long-term
survival or ability to tolerate chemotherapy
or radiation therapy, or even as far as achieving
a spontaneous remission. He basically modeled
these "exceptional" cancer patients
to find out what they did differently from
other patients. What he found is that cancer
frequently develops as the result of a psychological
or spiritual conflict in someone's life.
Those patients who were willing to look at
cancer as a metaphor for this and then take
action were the ones who frequently did better.
One
thing which I always find interesting is
the term, "we are going to FIGHT this
cancer." This statement is ridiculous.
Cancer is part of people. It is a SYMPTOM
of something in their lives which needs to
be fixed, not fought. If you have ever tried
to work with an unconscious part in order
to facilitate long-term change, then you
know that it is only by working with the
part, and by taking into account the part's
higher level intention (or message) that
congruent and long-term change is established.
Yet with cancer, we are fighting rather than
listening. The success rates in treating
the big four cancers (breast, colon, lung
and prostate) are dismal. It is obvious that
we are looking in the wrong direction for
treatment. Instead of destroying the immune
system with harsh chemicals, we need to be
working with the body. If Bernie Siegel had
someone in his ranks who could help cancer
patients identify internal conflicts, limiting
beliefs, and negative emotions (with the
speed and directness of an NLP/Time Line
therapy practitioner) and clear these out
with Time Line Therapy™ techniques,
the results could be phenomenal. Cancer patients
unfortunately don't have seven years to lie
on a therapist's couch!
I
am always happy to answer questions about
the use of Time Line Therapy™ in a
medical context. My E-mail address is
nlpmd@ix.netcom.com.
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as to the inherent healing powers of Time Line Therapy™ Techniques,
in fact, quite to the contrary, the author believes that all healing
power lies within us, and that healing takes place when the client
establishes good communication with his Unconscious Mind. Nothing
described here is designed to replace good Medical treatment in the
case of disease. In fact, the techniques
mentioned should be used with any Medical treatment.
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