Allergy Relief

Allergies can be a real pain in the nose and eyes to say the least, and at times can even be life threatening. I myself use to have allergies for the greater part of my life until I discovered how to rid myself of those discomforts. Below is some of which I have learned, including the actual process I use on most clients to rid them of those nasty allergic discomforts using NLP, and hypnosis.

It is Dave Elman's theory that suggests; most neurological symptoms have an initial point in time as a cause in the subjects history. Chapter 19 of his wonderful text "Hypnotherapy" for instance deals with allergies. It is Elman’s theory that many allergies; those of which cause symptoms similar to actions produced when crying, have associations to some past experience in which the client wanted to cry. He calls this the crying syndrome and associates it to hay fever and many other allergies. It is Elman’s believe that allergies are naturally present, and that at some point in time, the allergy becomes triggered due to stress, and manifests itself. Then, via hypnoanalysis, he regresses the patient and attempts to pinpoint a period in which similar symptoms are recognized, and hopefully this eliminates the allergy.

Due to my background in NLP and other studies, I have a few other beliefs about allergies. It is common knowledge that doctors and other members of the scientific community state that cancer cells exist in the body, and sometimes in some people they become triggered and grow becoming a problem. In Robert Dilts’ book “Beliefs: Pathways to Health and Wellbeing”, he suggests that allergies manifest once a person is exposed to a normally safe agent/s, when either run down, or excessively stressed, and the body’s immune system over-reacts, assuming the agent harmful. Once triggered, the immune system maintains a memory of the agent and continues to attack it whenever present, in turn causing the symptoms. Here we find a common element with Elman’s theory, “stress” as a trigger. Dilts’ process when compared to Elman’s is much simpler in that all one needs to do, is take a memory of symptom causes, and anchor an association to something similar, yet pleasant without allergic reactions, and boom barra bing, the allergy is gone.

When I first read about the procedure, I thought it was overly simple, but in the matter of a few days I found that I no longer had allergic reactions around cats, which I found amazing considering I only read the book. Turns out that as I read about the procedure, I naturally remembered my own allergy at the time, and so, I guess I followed the procedure while reading. Since then, I have relieved other allergic reactions including that of adverse reactions to dairy products, which is considered to be pathological.
It is therefore my conclusion that Dilts’ allergy relief process is much more useable because it can even be applied covertly as directed in his most wonderful book “Beliefs” on pages 184, 185.

Here is the process in full as described by Robert Dilts. The Fast Allergy Process Summary (from Beliefs).

1) Calibrate: Ask, “What’s it like for you when you’re in the presence of the allergen?” Watch for the person’s physiology, eye accessing cues, breathing, etc.

2) Explain the mistake of the immune system: Explain that his/her immune system has made a mistake about something being dangerous when it really wasn’t. The immune system has marked out something as dangerous that’s not, in and of itself. It can be retrained rather quickly.
Example: "I don’t know if you know how the immune system works, but it is really quite interesting. What’s happening with an allergy is that your immune system is overreacting and has become overactive.
Your immune system has certain cells that reach out and ingest foreign substances that enter the body. If one of these cells encounters a virus, it ingests part of it but also displays one on top of itself like flag. Like a victory flag, that is being held up, to alert the rest of the immune system that the body has been invaded.
This flag alerts the helper T cells to possible danger. Their job is to match the niches on the side of the flag that’s being held up, to the niches that they have on their sides which mark substances as dangerous. If there is a match, they will adhere to the substance and send out a message immediately for help from the killer T cells. The killer T cells come rushing in ready to fight. They come to where the flag is being held up and explode the virus by injecting it with a chemical.
This works out if you have a virus or bacteria, but with an allergy, the killer T cell attacks your own healthy cells. Once the mistake has been made in identifying the substance creating the allergy, and the cell is coded in the body, the immune system will go into action immediately."

"To recap, the immune system made a mistake about what was dangerous and marked out substances that put the active part of the immune system into action. Once that mistake has been made, and the cell is coded in the body, the immune system will go into action immediately, every single time. We can thank our immune system for operating in that way. Once a cold virus or bacteria has been marked out, the immune system will act to respond to that danger. It’s not very pleasant however, when it goes into action when there is no danger."

3) Check for ecology/ secondary gain: What would life be like without this? Are there any positive or negative consequences? Use whatever NLP techniques you need to at this point to deal with ecology issues before proceeding.

4) a) Have the person dissociate: and anchor the state of dissociation. This is added reassurance that you can keep the person dissociated.

b) Find an appropriate counter-example resource: Find a counter-example that is as similar to the allergen as possible. Anchor that response. Make sure the person is associated as you set the anchor. If possible let the person come up with his own example of what is similar.

c) Ask the person how he wants to feel: When he’s in the presence of the allergen. This might be “the you, you want to be” in the situation. Anchor this resource also.

5) Use all three of the anchors set in step 4 to have the person see himself with these resources available:
I now fire off the three anchors together, as I ask “what does this experience feel like?”

6) Gradually introduce the allergen in the dissociated state: Using a plexiglas shield from wall to wall is an easy way to establish dissociation. Have him watch himself through the plexiglas, and have him slowly introduce the allergen. Introduce it as a gradual process giving him the opportunity to get used to it. Wait, at this point, until you see a physiological shift. It’s like the immune system says, “All right, I’ve got it. I’ll change the notches on my flag so it doesn’t match up with any of the T cells I have.”

Example: "I now want you to imagine a plexiglas shield and imagine seeing yourself on the other side (as I fire off the first dissociated anchor)"..
Then while holding the first anchor I fire off the other two anchors, and have him slowly introduce the allergen into the experience, as I watch for a physiological shift. See below.
"Now, _____, I want you to imagine there’s a plexiglas shield all the way across the front of this room, from wall to wall, protecting you. And over there, on the other side of the plexiglas you see _____. And you see _____ with this response that we’ve just established. (Continues holding anchor) A _____ whose immune system knows just how to respond appropriately to (the allergen). And as you look at _____ over there, you know he has the kind of immune system that knows how to respond appropriately. (Pause) OK. Now, I want you, very gently, to put that _____ over there in a situation where he would be around (the allergen); the kind that used to create problems for him. Whatever it is. See _____ over there, knowing that he has this response that we’ve anchored in, fully available to him. His immune system does know how to respond appropriately. And you’ll notice that _____changing over there, as he’s in (with the allergen). And it may seem really strange to you inside to begin with. (Pause) OK. That’s right."

7) Re-associate: Let go of the dissociation anchor and have the person re-associate having the other two resources still available, and have him imagine being exposed to the allergen as you continue to hold the resource anchor.
"I want you to imagine yourself actually exposed to the one time allergen. Really taste it and smell it". (Still holding the two resource anchors).

8) Future Pace: Having him imagine a time in the future when he will be in the presence of and exposed to the allergen, using the two resource anchors.
" I want you now to imagine sometime in the future when you will be exposed to that substance, and experience what that will be like in this manner "(as I hold his resource anchors).

9) Test: If you can actually test carefully on the spot, do that. If not, re-calibrate to see if the physiology, eye-accessing cues, breathing, etc. have changed.
Here, I would do a re-calibration as an initial test due to the actual extreme results of allergens, and then I would send him off to the doctor for medical tests as a final check.

Another method used for eliminating allergies is that of "Mapping Across Submodalities Process Summary"

There is a way that you can use counter-examples and submodalities in working with allergies. Instead of using anchoring, you find out what submodalities are present when the immune system is working appropriately and map those across to where you have an inappropriate response. Often you will find that there is one critical submodality difference.

1. Calibrate.

2. Explain the immune system’s mistake.

3. Check for secondary gain/ecology issues.

4. Find an appropriate resource/counter-example. Elicit the submodalities for that counter-example. You can ask, “How do you think about it?” These are the submodalities the person’s immune system uses when it’s responding appropriately.

5. Elicit the submodalities associated with the allergen situation. These are the submodalities the person’s immune system uses when it’s responding inappropriately.

6. As the person thinks about the allergen, have him map across the submodalities so that it matches the submodalities of the counter-example.

7. Future pace.

8. Test.

(Covert Example) - The other day I was talking with a man wearing a coat and tie. He was telling me how he was having trouble with his wife and how she’d nag at him when he called her from work. I assumed he had a negative anchor to her voice tone in the context of her nagging. Later I told him that I was glad that I didn’t have to wear a tie and asked him if he minded wearing one. When he accessed whether or not he minded, I anchored the response visually by holding an imaginary tie knot in my collar. I then asked him about some conversation he had with his wife when he really was interested in what she was saying, while firing off my visual anchor of holding the imaginary tie knot. Then I asked him about her nagging and he had a very different response than he did the first time he mentioned her nagging.

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