NLP Trainer Dr. Matt - Alternative Medicine Video Lecture | Neuro-Linguistic Programming: A Practical Hands-on Course - Personal Learning

Aloha and well
my videoblog I wanted to take some time
to answer
the questions that I've been getting
over the past few weeks and I received
two different emails about a question
with regards to integrating alternative
and complementary medicine with
allopathic or what you would call
Western medicine so first of all let me
explain a little bit about my background
and where we are currently heading as a
society in my humble opinion my
doctorate degree is it's a PhD in health
psychology and health psychology kind of
goes like this imagine that there's a
circle here in that circle is Western
allopathic medicine and there's a circle
over here and that's alternative or
complementary medicine and then there's
a circle over here which is psychology
so you have the three separate circles
that for a number of years have been at
odds with each other competing with each
other definitely not on the same page
not always I mean I'm speaking in
general generalities of course but you
look at these three different circles
and health psychology which is what my
background is in my degree attempts to
draw a fourth circle kind of in the
middle connecting these three aspects so
in school I had to study traditional
Western you know pharmaceutical what do
you take if you have depression you know
the basic nuts and bolts of
pharmaceutical of allopathic of Western
medicine I'd look at alternative and
complementary including the things that
I teach NLP hypnosis Hoonah and then of
course the third one psychology and so
two important things number one
mainstream health and fitness mainstream
health and well-being is moving into
this connected approach a lot of medical
doctors are very progressive and looking
at how can we work on health improvement
rather than illness prevention not all
of them a lot of them a lot of
psychologists are looking at what are
other alternative and complementary
approaches again not all of them however
many of them are beginning to do this
and a lot of alternative and
complementary approaches and individuals
that are in the field of alternative and
complementary are beginning to recognize
that these other areas have something to
contribute when I first went back to
school to get my
PhD I actually received an email from a
few students and never mind the names it
doesn't matter and because I had been an
NLP for so long one of them actually
emailed and said what are you doing why
are you going to the dark side we heard
you're going back to get a PhD in
psychology somehow psychology was the
dark side and I email back and said no
don't you understand some important
things here look number one if you want
to make change if you want to help with
creating change with other individuals
it's it's difficult to create change
when you're going to head-to-head with
someone and if you're sitting there
going head-to-head with someone over NLP
versus psychology you're not gonna win
because at the end of the conversation
they're gonna go while I'm a doctor I
have a psychology background what do you
know I thought one of the best ways and
the best models and agents for change
that I've seen historically
worked within the system so how do I
step into that model and begin to help
to guide and shape that now I'm not
claiming I have that ability I am
claiming that because of the things that
I teach I felt it was important to
understand psychology has something
valuable to contribute medicine has
something value to contribute and in
addition to that the alternative and
complementary modalities have something
valuable to contribute so the question
that I got that prompted me to have this
discussion was how do you integrate NLP
Hoonah with Western medicine and the
best way to do it is to find someone
that is willing to hear that sue me when
we were looking for an OBGYN and looking
for someone to help with conceiving
because as some of you know the story or
the background we soomi had a number of
miscarriages my wife and we wanted to
have a child and her old OBGYN had a
very traditional what do you do he asked
me I began to explain what I do and he's
like yeah I'm not really sure about any
of that kind of attitude and when we
were interviewing other medical doctors
we're sitting across the table from her
OBGYN who came on board now and she goes
so what are you doing I said well I run
a company
that teaches NLP hypnosis and Hoonah and
her response was cool I had someone that
came in and talked about hypnosis and
hypnotherapy is so important because it
will shape their beliefs about being
able to have a child or how their
childbirth experience will be and I'm
sitting there going this person she's
got it she's not sitting there going I'm
a medical doctor and you don't know what
you're talking about because you don't
have a degree she's sitting there going
you have something valuable to add I
have something valuable to add how can
we work together I mean long story short
the end result is we have a
five-year-old daughter now and a lot of
it had to do with the fact that bringing
people into the mix helps to really
create positive change in the future to
help get you moving in that right
direction and from my heart if you have
a medical doctor that says things if you
have a psychologist that says things if
you have a trainer that says thing an
alternative and complimentary teacher
that says this is Ray is right this way
is wrong with all due respect the
Hawaiian saying is oh hey pop we Keiko
hello think not that all wisdom is in
your school most medical doctors most
alternative and complementary teachers
most psychologists realize that their
path their way of knowledge is not the
only way so we are moving in the
direction of these three different
modalities coming together we are moving
in a direction where those separate
paths are beginning to join into one and
so my suggestion is is that you don't
attempt to change someone else's point
of view you make sure that you surround
yourself with people that believe what
you believe that are on board with your
type of thinking and will support you
and your health and well-being because
look at the end of the day whether it's
a trainer a psychologist or a medical
doctor it's your health you have to take
responsibility for that and you have to
create that space to have that type of
health that you deserve so I hope that
helps to answer the question a little
bit and again I always love
to wrap up the blogs way that I always
do Balam upon know we all stand in
righteousness Aloha
cake ahi ek kahit make sure that you
treat everyone with love and respect it
doesn't have to be perfect it just needs
to be your best and Aloha a Hui ho
take care love you all
you