From the author: Chelyabinsk worker, August 7, 1999Psycholinguist Galina FEDOTOVA: “You can program the future” They started talking about psycholinguistics and neurolinguistic programming - NLP - recently. Probably because this unusual and promising area of ​​psychology is only a quarter of a century old. But in Russia it became known and received recognition only a few years ago. And, oddly enough, people started talking about it thanks to the development of election and advertising technologies. What is NLP? One of the most famous specialists in this area, Doctor of Psychology Alexey Sitnikov (I was lucky to attend his lecture in Moscow) defined neurolinguistic programming as a set of psychological methods that allow you to influence a person unnoticed by him, in particular with ordinary, but specially selected words. Our behavior is often driven not by consciousness, but by unconscious motives that are made up of associations and images. NLP affects the subconscious. Such technologies can be successfully used in advertising, in propaganda and propaganda campaigns of politicians. Are there any NLP specialists in Chelyabinsk? Yes, there is: in the ChMK dispensary, for example, one of them is receiving appointments - psycholinguist Galina Fedotova. Galina Fedotova is a doctor with twenty-three years of experience, and has been practicing neurolinguistic programming methods in her work for the last five years. She specialized at the Kharkov Institute for Advanced Medical Studies. Here Galina Fedorovna drew attention to the work of one professor: “It seems like an ordinary conversation, but it feels like he’s molding a man out of plasticine.” This, in fact, was the first acquaintance with NLP that amazed her. Then Fedotova participated in seminars of Russian, Canadian, and American professors. Galina Fedorovna does not consider herself an ordinary doctor, in the traditional sense of the word. A classical psychotherapist analyzes and explains a specific situation and acts on consciousness. And a psycholinguist corrects the subconscious, putting into it a certain program, which in the future will help a person cope with his problem without effort. Fedotova assures that allergies and chronic diseases can be treated in this way. However, patients come to her not only with illnesses: some are tormented by a constant feeling of guilt, others are haunted by their experiences, others cannot improve relationships in the family - there are many situations. “The possibilities of psycholinguistics here are practically unlimited,” says Galina Fedotova. - I can show you in practice what a miracle this is. Would you like it? Curiosity takes over, and I become the subject of an experiment. A couple of seconds later we are standing opposite each other. Fedotova holds me by the wrists: - Remember some unpleasant event in your life... Where do you see it? Is it in color, black and white? I replay the recent quarrel and feel the doctor’s hand squeezing on my left wrist. “What qualities did you lack in this situation?” If you had approached this with humor and calmly, would it have arisen? Now remember a time when you were cold-blooded... And now a funny situation... Compare the sensations here - pressure on your left hand, and here - on your right. - What do you feel? There is a slight excitement inside. In about five seconds everything passes. “Now imagine such a situation in the future,” Fedotova continues. - How are you feeling? The program is fixed: in the future in similar situations you will be calm. That’s all? How simple: questions, answers, imagination, pressing on the wrists. Is this really the treatment? “On the left I “wrote down” your unpleasant sensations,” Galina Fedorovna explains with a smile, guessing my question in advance, “and on the right hand are your pleasant resources.” Then she pressed on both wrists at the same time and neutralized all sensations. You calmly, coolly, and with humor go through this situation. And you feel some movement inside you. Was? This is because you experience both feelings at the same time. This is the mechanism: find resources within yourself and neutralize.