PART EIGHTEEN

THE FAST PHOBIA CURE TREATMENT KNOWN ASNEURO ASSOCIATIVE CONDITIONING (NAC)

Welcome to part eighteen, which will teach you the treatmentdeveloped and pioneered by top American motivationalist AnthonyRobbins. His treatment is known as Neuro AssociativeConditioning or N.A.C. for short. Full details of this treatment canbe obtained free of charge by borrowing Mr Anthony Robbin’s book“Awaken the Giant Within”, from your local library. I believe MrRobbins entitled his treatment N.A.C as it works rapidly, just asNeuro Linguistic Programming techniques do, but with thistreatment a strong neurological change is effected within thepatient’s body by the thoughts instilled into their minds. It is thischange in their neurological behaviour as a result of the originalthoughts in their mind, which makes the treatment so successful.

In this part, I will introduce you to the subject, so that you can putit to immediate use, in a similar fashion as was demonstrated onPaul McKenna’s Network First programme, which was broadcaston ITV during Spring 1995. On this 60 minute documentary, wewere clearly shown that after a therapy session of between 30 to 60minutes maximum, a female patient, once scared of flying, not onlyflew in an aeroplane, but was relaxed and happy whilst doing so. Aman once scared of spiders was happy to let a furry lookingtarantula spider walk all over his palms. And a woman, oncescared of heights, successfully completed a bungee jump from agreat height after only one treatment session.

The same week on Central TV’s Friday Night late show “CentralWeekend Live”, we were treated to a discussion on this treatmentmethod and the network first programme. Live on TV we sawanother man, once petrified of spiders, now able to handle atarantula after just a brief treatment session with the therapistresponsible for all these dramatic sounding case studies, MrMichael Breen, a good friend of Mr Paul McKenna, who made theNetwork First programme.

The McKenna documentary also showed step by step, how and whythe treatment worked, so if you can obtain a copy of the broadcastshown as I say in Spring 1995, then you will be shown with the aid

of visual and verbal tuition the basics of how and why thistreatment works.

The treatment shown on the McKenna show has a huge similaritywith N.A.C., as taught by Anthony Robbins, so read Awaken theGiant Within and you too can achieve such dramatic results asthose I’ve just mentioned. Now you know what is possible with thisunique treatment, which I call “The thirty minute fast phobia cure”,because it’s a fast phobia cure and the one session the patient willrequire, will take approximately thirty minutes. Sometimes as longas an hour, but usually an average, somewhere in between. In MrRobbins book, he details how using this N.A.C. treatment, he hasalso stopped people from smoking, over eating and other bad habitsas well as curing fears and phobias. It seems obvious from all I’veseen, that this is the treatment of the future, enabling you to solvemost patient’s problems in the space of just one session of onehours duration (maximum).

Imagine this, if you used noesitherapy for pain control and N.A.C.for fears, phobias and bad habits, then you’d instantly be able toset up in practice and treat most all clients for most all problems injust one session of no more than one hours duration. Earning a feeof £35 to £50 an hour, (minimum) you could treat 40 clients a weekon a 9am to 5pm five day basis and that should bring you anincome of between £1400 and £2000 per week. That’s a possibleincome of £104,000 per year which by anyone’s standards is a goodincome and as you could treat clients in their own homes youwouldn’t even need an office or expensive equipment. So you’dpractically be in profit and earning big money from day one.

Now down to a little theory, so that you can then put this treatmentinto practice. Firstly consult the illustration which is the last pageof this chapter. It shows exactly how N.A.C., Neuro AssociativeConditioning, (the master system) and the psychology of changeworks. You will see a diagram of the human mind, showing thatthe mind bases everything in life on how much pain or pleasure itcauses the person to do or not to do that particular thing. So forexample, if a person’s mind has stored memories which makesmoking seem pleasurable, e.g. the person has stored associationsbetween smoking and relaxing etc. and as such, it becomes hard tostop smoking due to the pleasurable, neurological associations the

person has made in their mind and body with direct regards to theaction of smoking.

So obviously, if enough painful neurological associations were to beprogrammed into their mind and body with regards to smokingthen it will become an automatic reflex action NOT to smoke, as itwould be too painful to the person to smoke due to the neurologicalassociations made between the patient’s mind and body by N.A.C.treatment. The basic principle behind how the treatment works isthe same whatever it is you are intending to treat. So to stop over-eating you’d have to create enough neurological links between thepatients mind and body to make it painful for them to overeat andvery pleasurable for them not to eat. Whereas their presentbehavioural patterns show they are associating pain with not eatingand pleasurable associations with eating.

So to put it bluntly, it would seem that if a patient wants to stop ahabit or stop some form of behaviour which is inappropriate, egfears and phobias, then neurological associations between theirmind and body must be made to make it painful to do this, to carryon the habit or to have that fear or phobia and you must also makeit pleasurable not to do these things or to react in these ways. If apatient wishes to be able to do something, achieve something (ieimproved sports performance, more energy, more confidence etc.)then you must create a strong painful neurological associationbetween their mind and body not to do these things and strongassociations of pleasure to be connected with both doing andachieving these things.

Put another way, the strong pleasurable associations must alwaysbe used to achieve the patients goals, hence it says “towardsvalues” on the picture and strong painful associations must alwaysbe connected to the behaviour or habits which they do not wish tocontinue with, hence it the picture it says, states of pain = awayvalues. Knowing this, once the patient has set their goal and forthe following example we’ll use a fear of spiders. You just need tofollow the six master steps to change as shown on the picture andthen success will be yours.

SIX MASTER STEPS TO CHANGE

1. Decide what you really want and what’s preventing you fromhaving it now. Eg. You want a relaxed life full of confidencein all you do. But your fear of spiders prevents you fromhaving it now.

2. Get leverage = Associate massive pain to not changing thisbehaviour now and massive pleasure to the experience ofchanging now. Eg The pain of not changing now would bepanic attacks each time you saw a spider. Feelings ofinferiority and a lack of confidence etc. Whereas thepleasurable points of changing now are that you’d have nofear of spiders, increased confidence, feelings of greathappiness and a sense of great achievement in all that youdo. Which of course would be a far more appropriate form ofbehaviour for you to have.

3. Interrupt the limiting pattern. Eg. Once in the hypnotic statewhich will increase the success of this six step process,although it can and often is as successful without the use ofhypnosis, you then interrupt the limiting pattern through theuse of visualisation. As shown on Paul McKenna’s networkfirst broadcast, for a fear of spiders you’d visualise thetarantula spider talking with a squeaky voice, wearing afunny party hat, with welly boots on eight feet and a big redclowns nose. In other words, you change that mental imageof a spider from something that scares you to something youfind hilarious. In fact, to the point where you physicallylaugh at the thought that anyone could be scared of thisstrange and silly image in your mind. At this point theneurological limiting pattern will have been broken andmentally you are not scared of this image you have created.

4. Create a new, empowering alternative. Eg. Here againthrough mental visualisation you’d see in your minds eye thateach and every time in the future when you see a spider youwill instantly bring the stupid and silly mental image youhave created to mind. And as such, will feel calm, relaxed,happy and in fact, a little jovial in this, a situation which oncebothered you. See yourself in your minds eye feeling proud,happy and confident with your new behaviour and you willthen have created a new, empowering alternative.

5. Condition the new pattern until it’s consistent. Eg. Whereyou’d have several mental rehearsals, where you’d rehearsereacting to the sight of a spider with the comical mentalimage and calm confident behaviour. So in your minds eye,imagine seeing a spider, then rehearse reacting in your newcalm and confident manner, now no longer scared of spidersdue to the new neurological associations you will have made.

6. TEST IT. Eg. Quite simply, what it says, once all the otherfive steps have been made, pain has been associated with notachieving your goal, pleasure with achieving it and thelimiting pattern has been interrupted, you will then be readyto test your new behaviour in a real life situation. In otherwords, now is when you confront what were once your worstfears to prove 100% to yourself that they are no longer thingsthat bother you. An ideal test would be to allow a tarantulato be placed on your palms, as shown on the Network Firstshow. Once you have it on your palm, allow the comicalmental image to resurface, notice how calm and confident youfeel. Then the treatment will be complete and your belief andexpectancy would be 100% total and your new behaviouralpatterns will be set for life.

Here, let me say, to have seen a video of a past patient confrontingtheir fears after this N.A.C. treatment would instil extra belief intoyou prior to the treatment, which would help ensure success in onesession only.

SUMMING UP

Follow the six master steps to change, as outlined in this chapterand follow the other rules as outlined in this chapter and successwith N.A.C. will be yours. In this chapter you have learnt all youneed to know to, with a little common sense, adapt what I havetaught you, so that you can treat practically any patient for anyfear, phobia, habit or nervous disorder. Further details can beobtained from Mr Robbin’s book, Awaken the Giant Within. And ofcourse, I’d recommend you obtain a copy of the McKenna broadcastand even The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna book, whichcontains Mr McKenna’s own experiences and thoughts on thistreatment. Many psychologists take weeks to do what you can nowdo in under one hour using N.A.C. treatment. All I need to mention

once again, is the importance of facing up to your fear as step six ofthe treatment. So that when you survive it with no ill effects itconcrete’s the new mental images in your mind and ensures thatyou never fear that subject matter again.

With the case of habits etc., time is the test here, so here don’t lightup a cigarette to prove it makes you feel sick. Do, however, disposeof all ashtrays, tobacco, lighters etc., so that no temptations existfor you.

This six step plan correctly followed will ensure success andachieve the patients goals. Remember also, that they are firstplaced under hypnosis and this will ensure that the new comicalmental images, as in this example, will always spring to mind,when that once fearful event occurs, in order to ensure you arecalm and relaxed. You can also, prior to removing them fromtrance, implant a major post hypnotic suggestion along the lines ofthat if ever they do feel the slightest bit of fear in such a situation,then by just taking 3 deep breaths in and then out, the patient willinstantly feel calm, confident and relaxed. This gives the power ofN.A.C. treatment combined with a powerful post hypnoticsuggestion and as such, the old behaviours will be out and the newones in.

I’ll end this chapter, by saying this. Treatment alone can changepeoples lives for the better and at the same time earn you anincome and lifestyle others only dream of.