User talk:Mashenka

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"True" bugs[edit]

The first item on the bug (disambiguation) page is a link to hemiptera. Are you really sure you need a link there on bugs (disambiguation) as well? Stevage 00:45, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

NLP[edit]

On User:HeadleyDown's discussion page, you wrote the following:

Headley, don't want to join the big battle on the NLP page, but I would love to know, who did you do your NLP training with? I am asking because apparently we share quite a few similarities, including biases, from your description above (apart from me being a female perhaps! and originally Russian), but your determined hatred for NLP is quite fascinating. Sadly, there are a lot of NLP "trainings" out there (including some by supposedly "top" and "original" NLPers) that are truly terrible, sensational, manipulative, or useless. I am wondering whether that may have been your experience.

I studied NLP for a number of years - and should perhaps mention that I also have several years experience of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which, as you are probably aware, is the preferred psychological treatment on the NHS. When comparing the two in practical terms (from my own, thoroughly subjective, of course, experience), CBT is like a hammer, whilst NLP (when properly, carefully and ethically applied) is like a scalpel - there are many overlaps between the two (e.g. in cognitive techniques), but, in my experience, NLP tends to be more accurate as you have more flexibility in being responsive to the individual (again, my subjective view).

I am a drug treatment manger in a women's prison, and work with some very, very damaged and despairing women. I can honestly (yet subjectively) say that without my NLP knowledge and skills my capacity to help them would have been much diminished. I believe that there are many excellent psychotherapists out there who use NLP either in addition to other therapeutic tools, or in its own right, and I have no doubt that there are also plenty of "cowboys" who bring NLP into disrepute or worse (and I would consider manipulative applications to be in this category, e.g. by American, Russian and other intelligence services).

I would really appreciate if you allow the external link I've tried to add a couple of times (for the NLPtCA) to exist - this is a professional association which is part of the UKCP (UK umbrella body for psychotherapists) and is completely legit. The new NLPtCA accreditation criteria are just as stringent as for other, more conventional psychotherapies, and, even if you don't believe in efficacy of NLP, it would be preferable, wouldn't it, if someone looking for NLP practitioner found a qualified psychotherapist rather than a cowboy?

With regards to other psychotherapies, I once was unlucky enough to attend a training course run by a highly qualified and experienced psychoanalytic psychotherapist, who, in the course of training (1 day) has managed to seriously traumatise the majority of participants (some of them needed many months of counselling and psychotherapy afterwards! - luckily I escaped relatively unscathed!). I guess the point I am making is that the personality and skills of individual practitioner can be far more significant than their therapeutic modality.

Anyway, I would love to hear more of what (and why) you think of NLP - but outside the big battlefield. May be can we chat on MSN?

Cheers, :-) Mashenka 21:06, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm also editing the NLP page and would like to speak with you regarding NLPtCA and CBT, if possible. Thanks Greg 05:41, 5 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm trying to create a new NLPtCA page here Neuro Linguistic Psychotherapy and Counselling Association and got much the same response. Any help you could give improving it would be welcome. Thanks AJRG (talk) 12:44, 30 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your article has been moved to AfC space[edit]

Hi! I would like to inform you that the Articles for Creation submission which was previously located here: User:Mashenka/Sound Healing has been moved to Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sound Healing, this move was made automatically and doesn't affect your article, if you have any questions please ask on my talk page! Have a nice day. ArticlesForCreationBot (talk) 11:57, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

You recently made a submission to Articles for Creation. Your article has been reviewed and because some issues were found, it could not be accepted in its current form; it is now located at Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sound Healing. Please view your submission to see the comments left by the reviewer. Feel free to edit the submission to address the issues raised, and resubmit once you feel they have been resolved. (You can do this by adding the text {{subst:AFC submission/submit}} to the top of the article.) Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! Hallows AG (talk) 06:06, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inline Citations[edit]

Regarding your query: every claim in the article must be sourced. I can give you a few examples on what needs to sourced:

"Different musical tones would cause the sand particles to move into geometric patterns."
"Sound Healing is the therapeutic application of sound frequencies/music to a person with the intention of bringing them into a state of balance, harmony and health."
"The practitioner may use their voice as well as musical instruments such as crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, gongs, or tuning forks in the sound healing session.".

There is still quite a few claims that need to be sourced but overall it's a good article :). Resubmit it again when you have provided the sources.--Hallows AG (talk) 22:13, 13 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Your submission at Articles for creation[edit]

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Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia! OohBunnies! (talk) 00:22, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Sound Healing concern[edit]

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Your article submission Sound Healing[edit]

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Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. HasteurBot (talk) 01:03, 24 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]