| (This report is reprinted from a few years ago)
Havening was only part of my process with the boy. (We'll call him Joe.) I’ve worked with Joe before and have also worked with his father and other members of his family on other allergies.
I have always used the NLP allergy technique for that with good success. His father’s loss of hearing was even reversed after removing his allergies, and he now hears normally.
For those of you who are not familiar with the NLP allergy technique, here's a little bit of information on it: NLP has always been very effective at "curing" phobias. The NLP "phobia cure" and the "fast phobia cure" are well known.
So when Robert Dilts, one of the co-developers of NLP, heard that allergies were essentially phobic responses of the immune system, he set about finding a way to apply the NLP phobia cure to allergies.
The results were impressive. (If you want to read more about that you can go here: http://www.nlpu.com/Patterns/pattern9.htm)
When I first worked with Joe we focused on sesame seeds and other "lesser" allergies. He responded well to those sessions and now eats bagels and sesame chicken with his friends and is very happy.
However, when we did the peanuts at a later session, he did not respond so well. I think it may have had to do with the worry of the parents who were standing by with their emergency kit and their fingers hovering over the send button on their 911 speed dial.
He ate a peanut and drank water and felt a little itchy so they didn't go any further. That was more than a year ago.
So yesterday when they came back to my office we did the NLP allergy cure again, and then I asked him, on a scale of 0–10 how confident he was that he could eat sesame seeds.
With no hesitation he said, “ten.”
I asked him about cashews.
“Ten.”
How about almonds?
“Ten.”
How about peanuts?
(pause)
“Five.”
So that's when we began the Havening. Without going over all the details, I'll just say we did event Havening on the imagined eating of peanuts. His SUDS scale went from 5 to 3. I asked him what feelings he had about having to be concerned about eating peanuts. He said “frustrated.”
On a scale of 0–10 it was a 7. We havened that down to a three. I asked him what the opposite of frustrated is, he said “relieved,” so we did affirmational Havening with that.
When the frustration was down to a 1, we switched to hopeful Havening. Afterwards I asked him about the original fear of eating peanuts. He said it was a 2.
So I thought about Tony Burgess’s “IF-formational” Havening. I asked him where in his body he felt the fear. He said in his gut. I said, “That’s a good place for it.
We get a lot of different gut feelings about things, don’t we?” (I was trying to distance him from thoughts about it being a digestive issue.) I said, “So before it was a feeling about the size of a basketball and now it’s about the size of a softball or a baseball?” He said yes.
So I asked him, “What if that was a snowball instead and it started melting away?”
And we went back to Havening from there, but I had him do the Havening touch on himself.
At the end of that round I asked him where the fear was and he said “zero.” I asked him on a scale of 0–10 how confident he was about eating sesame seeds. “Ten.” The answer was the same for cashews, almonds, and now, peanuts.
We then recorded a brief trance induction with a “Time Line” visualization of how he’d fixed the allergies to the sesame seeds, cashews, and almonds in the past and how cool that was — and now peanuts too. Then we future-paced the change along his time line. On the recording we also reviewed the steps to Havening and how to do self-Havening.
When the trance was done, his father broke open a Reese’s peanut butter cup and put a tiny bit of the filling on Joe’s arm. No reaction. There was still no reaction after ten minutes.
Joe wanted to lick it but they agreed to wait till they got home so the mother could be there too. The father told me they’d just spent $50 on a new epi-pen because Joe was leaving on a three-week trip, but he could have saved his money.
Later I got an email that said the mother had “smeared peanuts all over Joe’s arm and there was no response — :) very happy.”
There have been no further reports of Joe’s actually eating any peanuts yet, but confidence is high.
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