All I can say is: it’s about time. This is the kind of book I hoped one of my students would write. What Garner Thomson has done, with Dr. Khalid Khan, is to take my work further and, with great precision, present tools for healthcare professionals, while at the same time offering all those in NLP a solid understanding of how the technology of NLP works in the brain.
I have for years been very good at modeling successful healers, but have fallen short on providing the science. I have used Magnetic Resonance Imaging since it was available to understand the mysteries of the brain. Now, these gentlemen have gone so much farther. I say thank you—and recommend that any Neuro-Linguistic Programmer read this over and over and over.
It seems obvious to me that the more we know about the brain and how it works well, the better off we will be. And the two most important applications of my work will always be education and health. My work has been accepted by psychologists and therapists. Over the years, I have trained thousands of doctors, teachers, and healthcare professionals. The American Dental Society claimed that NLP had the only cure for dental phobia.
However, I doubt that myself: I believe there are as many ways for the brain to learn better behavior as there is imagination in the world. What this book represents is a startling step forward in filling in details and applying technology. Rigorous, yet easy to understand, this is a presentation of powerful patterns of human learning. I believe that, 50 years from now, you will find it on every healthcare professional’s bookshelf.
So be one of those exceptional people who lead the pack and get it there now. I am proud to have been the inspiration for such an elegant and wonderful book. Having read it just once, I am now going to go back through it again. You should do the same.
The only other thing I can say is: Thank you!
Dr. Richard Bandler