Practical Miracles

This book had its origins in the crisis faced by the author when she discovered that she had a brain tumour and decided to opt out of medical treatment on the basis that she could heal herself by resolving the stress responses in her life reflected in some of our core beliefs. This led her to explore a number of avenues, including NLP, as a way of disentangling her thoughts and restoring a degree of inner peace. The key message is to heal your thinking in order to transform your stress response. This means not allowing outside events to trigger your emotions. At the beginning of the book, the author explains that the main thrust is to remove the blocks to your natural healing power, opening up to connection and trust through a change in belief structure and consciousness. She provides some helpful guidance and exercises about how to reverse a feeling of being overwhelmed and not allowing oneself to descend into a negative stress spiral. She has a useful model of cloud components involving the relationship between such factors as stories, values, emotions and key phrases to our core beliefs. Overall, the book can help readers make choices that heal and build resilience.