This book is dedicated to my beautiful daughters Erika and Natasha. May you always know how amazing you are and that you are meant to manifest all your dreams. Just have the courage to follow your heart, take inspired action, have faith and relax in the knowledge that when the time is right, your dreams will indeed come true.
About the author
Cissi Williams moved to Sigtuna, Sweden in 2007, where she now lives with her husband and their two daughters, three cats, a Bernese mountain dog and two rabbits.
She offers training in Transformational NLP and Transformational Break-Through Coaching, as well as running personal and spiritual development courses. She treats patients and clients from her and her husbands clinic in Sigtuna, and regularly lectures and holds seminars in Sweden and in the UK.
Together with her husband, she founded the Swedish magazine Inspire A Body, Mind and Spirit Guide to Well-Being with the intention of inspiring others to connect with their own inner healing power and innate well-being, enabling a deep healing of body and mind. She is passionate about sharing with others the tools for connecting with the power within us, enabling us to heal ourselves and our lives, and fulfil our dreams.
If you want to find out more please visit www.nordiclightinstitute.com or www.inspiremagazine.eu
Acknowledgments
I want to thank my wonderful husband, Alan, and our two precious daughters, Erika and Natasha. I am truly blessed to have you in my life and just being with you is the best gift ever. With you I am able to experience such deep love and happiness it takes my breath away.
I want to thank my dad, who is now in heaven. Thanks to you I was put on this path of healing and you are one of my greatest teachers.
I also want to thank Sandra Rigby, my editor at Watkins Publishing, who contacted me to see if I wanted to write a book about how to use Transformational NLP with a spiritual approach, and a big thank you to editor Jo Godfrey Wood, who had suggested my name to Sandra. To me, it is a miracle how this book came about. Thank you and also to Fiona Robertson for being my editing angels!
I want to give a big thank you to my lovely friend Karrin Lawrence, NLP Trainer, who has graced this book and my life with her wisdom and insights. You are such a wonderful friend and I am so glad for that day, many years ago, when your back pain caused you to seek me out for an osteopathy appointment.
I want to thank Adrian Bradshaw-Jones, amazing coach and Master Practitioner of NLP who has, with his extraordinary creativity and insight, illustrated Higher-Self Healing, Parts Integration and Drop Down Through in this book. Thank you!
I also want to thank Rob Purfield and Debbie Jenkins, both NLP Trainers. You were the first to give me feedback on this manuscript. Thank you for your wise insights and wisdom!
I want to thank all my patients, clients and students, who have all made this book possible; thanks to everything they have taught me.
A special thank you to everyone who has loved me and supported me throughout the years: my mum, my sister Jessica, Eva (thank you for being there as my best friend during our whole childhood and for all our wonderful travels together. Our trek in Nepal will always be a magical memory), Almira and Sasha.
I want to thank all my teachers, such as those at the British College of Osteopathy and Naturopathy (now British College of Osteopathic Medicine), as well as David Shepherd, Master Trainer of NLP, John Grinder, co-founder of NLP, Carmen Bostic St Clair, co-developer of NLP, Michael Carroll, Master Trainer of NLP, and all other teachers of spiritual wisdom who have lit up the way for me to follow: Neale Donald Walsch, Eckhart Tolle, Paramahansa Yogananda, Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson, Caroline Myss, Sanya Roman, Gerald Jampolsky, Abraham-Hicks, Lama Surya Das, Wayne Dyer, Tony Robbins, Deepak Chopra, Brandon Bays, Doreen Virtue, Barbara Brennan, Shakti Gawain, Alberto Villoldo, Gregg Braden, Denise Linn, Byron Katie, Sonia Choquette and many, many more.
And finally I want to thank all our friends in Sigtuna, who have made the dark winters in Sweden a little bit more bearable for my British husband (and for me)! You know who you are and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Introduction
Transformational NLP as a tool for healing with the Spirit
This book is not just about Neuro-Linguistic Programming (popularly known as NLP); it is about how you can use it as a magical transformational tool, enabling you to heal any area of your life by harnessing the power and wisdom of a greater force a force I term the Spirit. You may wish to call this power by some other name that is meaningful for you, such as God, Divine Force or Higher Power the term itself is not important. The key point is that this book will show you how to access a power above and beyond your ego self to allow deep inner healing to take place. My experience as both an NLP coach and therapist has shown me that profound growth can occur when we access wisdom and love from our Spirit, which is then able to flow into our minds and bodies. It is the Spirit that provides us with our life force. By using NLP as a tool to tap into this divine life force you will achieve amazing results.
My passion is to help others empower themselves. This has led me to study a variety of disciplines: osteopathy, cranial osteopathy, naturopathy, NLP, as well as many other sources of wisdom including meditation, visualization, shamanism and prayer. There are many paths leading to the attainment of health, happiness and wisdom. For me NLP is just one of a number of tools that you can use. The key to its effectiveness is how you use it and your intent in using it.
NLP has become a very popular technique for self-help and personal empowerment as it enables people to better understand how their ways of thinking and feeling create their daily experience; it shows us how we can change our habitual ways of behaving, thereby giving us more choices for how we want to be in our lives.
NLP became world famous through life coach Tony Robbins and hypnotist Paul McKenna. Both have shown how NLP can quickly and effectively change a persons thinking and behaviour for the better. The discipline is also used widely in the business community as it helps to improve understanding of others, as well as helping to enhance communication with each other.
I was first drawn to NLP when I noticed, through my work as an osteopath, that I could quickly feel peoples emotions in different parts of their bodies. I realized that just working on them physically would not be the quickest and most efficient way of releasing these emotional imbalances. I understood that many of these negative emotions had originally been caused by negative ways of thinking and past negative experiences. Once I had learnt NLP, I had a truly powerful tool for helping my patients to release the emotional pain that had been held in their bodies quickly and effectively, in an exquisite way. As I continued to use NLP in my work with patients and coaching clients, I changed what I had been taught by tapping into my own spiritual understanding of how to facilitate healing of the body and mind. This was never a conscious act it just happened. I was not fully aware of just how different my approach was until my friend Karrin Lawrence met up with me one day after she had finished her NLP Master Practitioner Training with David Shepherd. David is a Master Trainer of NLP and one of the most respected trainers in the UK and I had completed the same training some years previously. I started to work with Karrin using my new approach to NLP. She asked me afterwards:
