Allergies & Intolerances

Your immune system and digestive system work closely together as a powerful army protecting you from invaders. When a macrophage encounters something dangerous, it ingests part of it and places a flag on it to alert a Helper T-cell to come and check it out. The helper T-cell compares the flag with their own library of danger flags. If they find a match, they alert the killer T-cells to come immediately and explode the dangerous cell by injecting it with a chemical. This works well if you have a virus or bacteria but with an allergy, the killer T-cells attack your own healthy cells. One of the chemicals that is excreted when the cells are exploded is histamine, which creates the runny nose, itches and other allergy symptoms. Immune mistakes happen when your body is stuck in the stress response and is under-resourced, or because of a negative association about a substance.

If you fundamentally have great health, feel calm and happy, and the allergy is your only issue, you may not need the whole four-day programme. Instead, you could watch the two-hour webinar – Next Steps for Recovery – to gain some understanding of mind-body interaction and calming techniques, and then do the NLP Allergy Technique in a 1.5 hour individual session to assist your immune system to correct its mistake of reacting to a substance that is not dangerous to the body. This is achieved through a guided visualisation to gently inform your immune system of the changes that it needs to make. This will only address the allergy – you will not learn techniques for use in other areas of your life. 

The NLP Allergy Technique has now been applied thousands of times in clinical and training settings and has been effective in changing the vast majority of allergy symptoms. In a study done in Salt Lake City (Hallbom & Smith, 1987), for example, thirty two individuals were guided through the allergy pattern for a multitude of allergies, including pollen, smoke and foods. All but three showed immediate reduction of their symptoms. A six month follow-up revealed that only three of the individuals who had responded positively had any recurrence of their allergies.

If allergies is one of  many health problems you experience and/or you know you are often stressed, I would recommend attending The Switch.
The Switch is a four-day programme in a small group setting. You will learn about how stress causes health problems, how mind and belief patterns can unknowingly exacerbate stress, plus how to calm the stress response to allow your body to start healing naturally. The Switch also helps people to identify the underlying cause of their allergies (the bad association that has been subconsciously made about the substance) and resolve that pattern too.  An added bonus of doing The Switch is that you won’t just resolve your allergies – you will have techniques to work on other health issues, emotional patterns or enhance any area of your life. 
If you don’t feel quite ready to jump into a four-day course, you might like to start with our free 45 minute webinar –First Steps to Recovery– to get a basic overview of how stress affects health overall. This is not specifically targeting allergies.