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[noahgibbs]

Back from the Allergy Elimination party. Looks like we only got eastbaygreg, bootkitten and plymouth. Unfortunately bootkitten had a problem that the guy teaching couldn't figure out. I worked on plymouth, so I'm curious how that'll go. And I'll also hope to hear a report from eastbaygreg on what he worked on.

We broke up into groups of three to practice the technique. The third guy in our group was actually really interesting/amusing. Granted, I'm *very* glad I didn't have him as an actual paying client in an actual hypnotherapy practice. Plus we took turns, and I went first, so I kinda foisted him off on plymouth by default, and it's not like she had any previous experience in NLP or hypnotherapy.

For those of you who have been wondering how a phobia-curing technique would work on allergies - you'll be happy to know that this was basically very similar to the phobia technique, if slightly more heavyweight. So apparently they think a phobia-curing technique *does* work on allergies, pretty much. We'll wait for reports to come in and see how well it works, I guess.

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allergies

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

So, I left allergie thingie and went home to get dinner and grab clothes and stuff and headed back to auros's place and there were kitties... and I tried to snuggle them to test the efficacy but they hid under the bed. I went to sleep next to cat-hair-soaked pillows and during the night they took up residence, like the often do, on the large pillows above our heads. I woke up to two cat-logs within reach of me and my head much clearer than it usually is in the morning when I spend the night there. So I decided to test further. I petted the Hoshi and rubbed my nose and there was cat-hair on my hand and it tickled my nose... and soon my eyes were itching and my nose was running again.

So I am sortof wondering if what happened is that the allergy was gone but that the tickly presence of the cat hair on my nose (which is a sensational reaction rather than an immune reaction) overrode that and triggered it to return. Or perhaps it is simply that when we did the process we never actually covered the face-touching part such that I am now in a state of cat hair in the air and vicinity and on my hands being OK but cat hair directly on my face is still too much. If it is the latter then I am at least somewhat better off.

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[angelbob.livejournal.com]

If it's the latter, we can also spend another ten minutes and make a second try.

For that matter, if it's the former we can *still* do that.

Sounds like a good partial success, and probably fixable.

[cortneyofeden.livejournal.com]

I actually would be quite interested in learning more, especially if it seems to at least somewhat work. I couldn't go due to scheduling conflicts, but I have an...aversion/psychosomatic reaction to something which I think techniques like that may work on.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

It works for many things. If it's an aversion rather than specifically an allergy, this should probably work better, honestly.

[cortneyofeden.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure how to describe it. As a young child, I loooved yogurt. But I was very lactose intolerant, so would repeatedly make myself very sick eating it. Ever since I can remember, I cannot get a spoon of yogurt into my mouth. As soon as I get it close enough that I can smell it, my hand stops.

I can have things like frozen yogurt with no problem, but with that the cultures aren't active any longer. Things which actually have yogurt in them, like a mango lassi? I can have a few sips that taste wonderful. But once I take that third sip or so, it starts to taste too much like yogurt and I can't have any more.

S'weird, and I've been convinced for a while that it's just a psychosomatic throwback to knowing that it's bad for me (me as an individual). But I'm no longer lactose intolerant, and well...yogurt's healthy and something I'd like to be able to have. If nothing else, I'm intellectually interested in why I have this weird inability to consume yogurt.

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like something strongly addressable.

[pusifoot.livejournal.com]

Hrml... phobia-curing, eh? I think that perhaps you and I might need to talk about this one. I have this phobia that I should probably at least think about getting rid of.

I am willing to play guinea pig :) (Would have totally gone for the allergy-curing one, but I don't have any allergies that can readily be checked for... spider bites and amoxycillan aren't really something you can bring to class :)

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

We can do this when we get together, or you can wait around a month - they're planning to do a Phobia one then, though I'm not currently planning to be there.