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05-13-2016 , 09:53 PM
Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa have been in the news lately about a controversy that I know nothing about, and could care less about. They have a show called "Live with Kelly and Michael".

Anyway, I found a video of a past episode in which Strahan, who claims to have had a severe snake phobia his whole life, gets cured from that phobia in a matter of minutes. The guy that cures him is named Bandler. Here is the entire video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_xrTtjpCpE

I think that this is very impressive given that psychologists take years to cure snake phobias. I can't see how Strahan could have been faking in anyway.
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05-14-2016 , 02:26 AM
It's probably not faked, but there is a big difference between doing something with a safety net of two people helping you - a colleague and a psychologist - and actually "curing" a phobia.

So lets say you tilt, badly. If I sat next to you and reassured you through each session that you weren't going to tilt, that you were calm, etc - basically using self-talk, imagery and CBT - then I would bet a decent sum of money you wouldn't tilt while I was there.

However, whether that means you won't tilt ever again is another matter. Throw a snake at Michael a month after that session when he is least expecting it and see how he reacts.
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05-14-2016 , 02:03 PM
Bandler is the NLP guy.
He is seen in a lot of nlp videos on YouTube helping people with all kinds of fobias.
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05-20-2016 , 09:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Elrazor
It's probably not faked, but there is a big difference between doing something with a safety net of two people helping you - a colleague and a psychologist - and actually "curing" a phobia.

So lets say you tilt, badly. If I sat next to you and reassured you through each session that you weren't going to tilt, that you were calm, etc - basically using self-talk, imagery and CBT - then I would bet a decent sum of money you wouldn't tilt while I was there.

However, whether that means you won't tilt ever again is another matter. Throw a snake at Michael a month after that session when he is least expecting it and see how he reacts.
You do not even need a phobia to get scared ****less when that happens.
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05-21-2016 , 04:48 AM
Exactly - we don't even know if he had a phobia in the first place.

As with all "miracle cures" provided by NLP, there are a lot of smoke and mirrors.
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