NLP Podcast 71: You Can't Make a Crunchy Apple from Applesauce – Or Can You?

This podcast is about a story of a miracle that our NLP seminar participant, Marco Scherbaum, created himself.

Imagine how a tennis player feels when he receives the news from his doctor that he can never walk again without crutches? This happened to our seminar participant Marco Scherbaum. Stay tuned to hear the remarkable NLP story he has behind him.

After work, the family man in his mid-30s, a senior employee and sole breadwinner, goes to play tennis. In the middle of the game, he twists his ankle 180 degrees. He falls to the ground.
With a swollen ankle, he is taken to the hospital for emergency surgery that same night. When he wakes up, the chief physician of emergency surgery is in his room with his team and informs him that due to the high degree of destruction of the ankle from a medical perspective, the restoration of the ankle is not foreseeable. He should forget about running or even jogging from now on.

The doctor says: "You can't make a crisp apple from applesauce anymore!"




Marco Scherbaum is shocked; he keeps hearing the doctor's statement. The negative belief: "I will never be able to walk again" hangs in the air. Marco knows that the way we construct our world, what we believe, significantly influences our lives. He begins to work specifically on this belief with the help of NLP:

This podcast is about a story of a miracle that our NLP seminar participant, Marco Scherbaum, created himself.

Imagine how a tennis player feels when he receives the news from his doctor that he can never walk again without crutches? This happened to our seminar participant Marco Scherbaum. Stay tuned to hear the remarkable NLP story he has behind him.

After work, the family man in his mid-30s, a senior employee and sole breadwinner, goes to play tennis. In the middle of the game, he twists his ankle 180 degrees. He falls to the ground.
With a swollen ankle, he is taken to the hospital for emergency surgery that same night. When he wakes up, the chief physician of emergency surgery is in his room with his team and informs him that due to the high degree of destruction of the ankle from a medical perspective, the restoration of the ankle is not foreseeable. He should forget about running or even jogging from now on.

The doctor says: "You can't make a crisp apple from applesauce anymore!"




Marco Scherbaum is shocked; he keeps hearing the doctor's statement. The negative belief: "I will never be able to walk again" hangs in the air. Marco knows that the way we construct our world, what we believe, significantly influences our lives. He begins to work specifically on this belief with the help of NLP:

1. First, he goes through the Dilts Pyramid with the belief. He sees his identity as a cripple who goes from one physiotherapy session to another and can only walk on crutches.


2. The NLP presupposition: People have all the resources for any desired change within them gives his thinking a different direction. And he starts with targeted self-coaching.


3. With the help of the Diamond Technique he changes his perspective on the problem. From the statement: "I can no longer walk," he develops the opposite as a goal: "I will become an extreme athlete." With increased flexibility, he deals with the situation and transforms the problem into a great challenge.


4. In the next step, Marco Scherbaum uses the Walt Disney Strategy to further develop his goal: "I will become a triathlete." In the role of the realist, he develops small steps, sets interim goals, and milestones on the long journey from crutches to extreme athlete.


5. With the help of the Submodalities from NLP allow Marco to make the pain at the sight of his foot smaller and black-and-white.
   
6. He defines his goal more precisely with the help of the well-formed goal criteria : "I will successfully and painlessly complete the largest triathlon in Germany with the sprint distance before my 40th birthday.


7. He takes the "as if" frame and goes through the model of the Clock of the Future, which Stephan Landsiedel developed many years ago. He is accompanied by 2 mentors on the Dilts levels. He goes through several critical points in time into the future. Finally, he lands with his wise old man who looks back on his life.

Strengthened by his intensive self-coaching, Marco begins the long and arduous implementation of his project.

In small steps, his health condition changes, and he gets himself into top shape for his dream triathlon, the largest triathlon in the world – the Dextro Triathlon sprint distance in Hamburg.
In the podcast, you will also learn exactly how Marco Scherbaum experienced his third triathlon. He even successfully participated in this triathlon three times, in 2009, 2010, and 2012.

"Decisions must be made by oneself. Those who leave decision-making to others will not find their personal meaning."