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From the August, 2000 issue of Anchor Point

Nine People with ALLERGIES Help Each Other to Get Rid of Them!!!
by Paul Liekens


Because of the success of the earlier experience on TV with the fear of flying (see Anchor Point, October 1999) , I proposed to the producer that we do an experiment with allergies that probably had never been done before.

I feel it is my mission to awaken people to the fact that they all are magicians, and the source of their own happiness and unhappiness.

The usual thing

The normal way for this TV program to do something with allergies would be to bring me a famous politician or TV star with an allergy and let me help him.

The effect of this would be that people might think, “Yes, but it is this strange guy again who is responsible for the result.”

So I figured out how to do it in a very different way, taking a great risk, but trusting that it would work.

The risky thing

I proposed to the producer that we gather ten people, each with an allergy. All the allergies would be different.

I would have them for a day from 10:00am to 4:00pm; and in that time I would teach them the allergy process in the morning, and let them do the intervention with each other in the afternoon.

My point is that, if this would work, the hundreds of thousands of people with allergies in my country would become aware of the fact that it is a simple process they can do themselves. On top of that, they would realize that it does not take a skilled therapist to do the work for you, but that the work is done by yourself.

Ecology

Since ethics and ecology are important for me, I surrounded myself with five skilled master practitioners as assistants.

The group finally was composed of nine people with the following allergies: fish, soap, pollen, dogs and everything with feathers, cats and horses, rubber, dust, sun, cats, and birches (the whole year through).

Harmonizing

I started with a group meditation, to harmonize (see Anchor Point, March 1997), in which I invited their subconscious to bring closer to the surface all they had ever known, since the beginning of time, about health, creation of life, and capacities for self–healing.

I helped them to align the three levels of consciousness: higher, rational, and subconscious; and get connection with the source of life within themselves.

Preparing

After that, I took five members of the group aside to teach them the allergy process (Robert Dilts, Suzi Smith, Tim Hallbom), in which they see themselves behind a plexiglass screen in the presence of the counter example, being step by step confronted with the allergen. For instance, the one allergic to dogs gets an anchor of safety while playing with a cat (counter example). Holding the anchor, while looking at themselves behind the screen, somebody approaches the self behind the screen with a dog, step by step.

While I was teaching the process, I asked the assistants to prepare the four others to do a search in their personal history, to discover the positive intention of the allergy.

They also helped the subjects to find a counter–example to the allergen, and installed the safety anchor.

At noon everybody had what they needed.

In the afternoon, at 2:00pm, they went in groups of two, and one guided the other through the process.

The first we could test in reality was a 20 year old girl with a severe allergy to rubber. As a consequence she had also a kind of eczema on her feet. (It is, in fact, hard to find shoes with no trace of rubber.) I gave her a rubber eraser and she had no reaction at all.

All of the others could only be tested in the mind.

Follow your mission

It is one of my supporting beliefs that if you follow your mission, the source of creation will help you with it, and will organize things for you. This time a strange coincidence occurred. That same night in the same TV studio there was a show with about 100 dogs, a kind of St. Bernard dog. In our group was a lady who had been allergic to dogs for more than 34 years; and they dropped this lady in the midst of the grumbling and excited dogs. She allowed a big dog to lick her face, she took a puppy and hugged it, and when she realized that she could enjoy this without any reaction, she nearly got ecstatic from joy. She mumbled, “I can’t believe this, … there are no words for it.” The camera took a magnificent close up of this experience, it was a great moment for her and also for me.

Fish and champagne

After that we went to a restaurant to drink some champagne in celebration of all of this, and the lady who had the fish allergy for 17 years ordered a fish plate and very carefully started to taste. After only a few minutes she was reassured that she was also free from reaction.

For the other group members we had to wait for the reality testing untill three days after the live broadcasting.

Then we discovered that eight of the nine people were free. The one who had no result gave us the wrong information about the allergen; she did not know this, but discovered it a few days later.

So we took a great risk, but with the universe looking over my shoulder we succeeded.

Four hundred thousand people watched the program, including a number of medical doctors. The TV station got more than ten thousand letters. Everyone who wrote received some information about allergies and a few easy exercises for bringing up resources. Some people asking for help got addresses of people who took the master practitioner class in my training institute.

How long did it last?

More than one year later, I checked how everybody did, because I am aware that what we did was only on the most superficial level of behavior.

In spite of that, four of the eight are still free of allergic reactions. The four others had a return of the symptoms during the year, and needed work on the belief and identity levels to help them get rid of the allergy permanently. I had many requests to repeat these allergy days. I refused to do so, because my belief is that it is much more interesting and lasting to have individual coaching on deeper levels. In fact, the outcome of the TV presentation was not to help people get rid of their allergies; the meta-outcome was to surprise the TV watcher at home and awaken them to the awareness of their potential for self-healing.



Paul Liekens is the Director–trainer of Heart Systems NV: international training institute for communication and NLP. He is the author of 14 books (four on NLP), not available in English. Master, Ericksonian Hypnosis

"I want to use this as an opportunity to gather about a thousand cases to convince official health organizations to invest in alternative kinds of approaches.

If you, the reader of this article, have cases, please contact me at my e-mail address:
pliekens.allergie@xs4all.be."

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