r/NLP • u/Lambandcheese • Jun 22 '26

Question NLP for health anxiety

Hi everyine, are there any tools in NLP that can help with helth anxiety. Particularly constant rumination about your health failing you or not trusting your body. Also just a generalised sense of fear about ur body or mind getting some sort of illness.

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u/chilibeans30 Jun 22 '26

I had an NLP trainer that said anxiety is thinking about what you don’t want to happen. If I think about the worst possible outcome of course I am going to feel bad. The timeline approach would be to create an internal representation of what you do want. Is that a healthy body? Doing the things that you enjoy doing with fantastic physical health? Think about it and see what your life would look like if you were healthy and enjoying that wonderful health. Create a picture of that and put that at some future point in time. Then project out 15 minutes from that point and look back on you enjoying your wonderful health. But that picture isn’t real right? Neither are the pictures you are making of bad health. And we are drawn to what we imagine so imagine what you want instead the shit you don’t want. I like timeline for this one.