Emotional Repatterning

Lisa Samet has a background in naturopathic medicine so it was a huge challenge when her son was diagnosed with leukaemia and had to be treated conventionally, an episode she describes in the first chapter of this very helpful book. While NLP and CBT can provide effective relief, they are limited in addressing only the conscious mind rather than underlying subconscious beliefs, memories and habits that drive our behaviour. Insights from neuroplasticity indicate that we can in fact change these deeper patterns, but our education system provides us with very little emotional wisdom and training. The central part of the book considers stories around key themes such as self-love, acceptance, responsibility and regret, sharing many examples of how it is possible to rewrite the inner narrative and transform its significance. Our challenges can be regarded as precisely what was required to develop our individual capacities and character. We can ask ourselves what lessons we learned and how we were able to grow. Self-reflection is also central to reinterpreting life history, for instance in relationships. Readers will recognise themselves in many of the stories, which can form a starting point for our own self-liberating reinterpretations.