Hello Linda,
What a great stoy and how familiar is the outcome to me.
As you may recall I am a Hypnotherapist and I employ a lot of NLP techniques however even the techniques aren't really important if we know our outcome in advance.
We set up and install strategies thrughout our lives and most work well or ok but sometimes our unconcious mind hasn't enoough information or stored memory with which to base a good working stategy so invents a strategy based upon the nearest scenario it can find, sometimes it works often it just confuses the issues.
Within NLP we believe that to change a habit or belief we need to install a new stategy rather than get rid of an old one. If somebody comes to me wishing to give up smoking cigarettes they often have a fear of withdrawl or of failure or feel that despite wanting to regain control it feels as if they have to deny themselves something they have become dependant on. We from within Nlp circles believe that the old strategy of smoking(which took some time to learn and with pain) has just become redundant and needs replacing with a new strategy. This is exactly what you did with your sister. Replaced an old habit with another wanted goal.
We are so powerful and when we start to realise it we really can move mountains.
Believe in you, believe in God and the rest just follows.
Roger
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