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[S951]Statement Of Personal History

by Joshua J Jacks, Jos

I suffered from moderately bad acne from age 18 to age 25. I almost always had at least one pimple but usually not more than three or four. I tried everything as far as topical products go. I tried the creams, gels, lotions, pads, and everything else on the market. Every brand from Oxy to Neutrogena. I had a very similar amount of success with each of these products. They didn't really seem to do anything except make my skin more irritated. No matter how much I used it or what kind I used. But out of desperation I kept trying new brands and new types of these topical treatments thinking one of them might finally do it.

Accutane - Prescription Acne Medication

One day out of complete frustration I decided to search online for some sort of alternative acne treatment. I found a lot of information about Accutane which is the prescription acne drug that I knew had a reputation for actually working but I also knew that it was generally only given to people with severe cases of acne and also very importantly to me it required a prescription. Something about going to the doctor and asking for this made me feel embarrassed and I knew my case wasn't bad enough to warrant it. I also read that Accutane has a lot of negative side effects.

One thing that I did find very interesting about Accutane is that it's not a topical medication like all of the acne products you buy at the store. It's an internal medication. And through more study I found that it's actually a variant of Vitamin A.

I found this very interesting because I had always heard that what you eat has nothing to do with acne. The stuff about eating greasy food and chocolate causing acne breakouts? That that's all some sort of myth I heard even though it had always seemed to carry some truth in my experience.

I thought why was it that the only thing that apparently actually works on acne is an internal medication?

Discovery of Vilantae's Vitamin B5 Acne Clearing Product

This line of thinking and research lead me to Vitamin B5 in the form of the Vilantae acne fighting product. I had never previously heard of using Vitamin B5 for treating acne and that actually makes a lot of sense because Vitamin B5 for treating acne first became known about in 1997 when Dr. Lit-Hung Leung published a study stating that high doses of Vitamin B5 resolved the problem of acne and reduced pore size.

Although I was somewhat skeptical because of all my previous failures at clearing my acne it seemed like it was worth a try. I ordered the Vilantae and started taking it as directed. It's quite a lot of capsules that you have to take in order to build up the amount of Vitamin B5 needed to clear acne. At first I found that to be a bit daunting but I decided it was worth it to give it a real try.

Vilantae Side Effects: Negative & Positive

One of the big selling points of Vilantae and Vitamin B5 in general for fighting acne is that there are little in the way of side effects. I did notice some slight stomach irritation when I first started taking it but that decreased pretty quickly once I got used to it.

The first thing I noticed about it had nothing to do with acne actually but it was the fact that I started to have a lot more energy and I seemed to be thinking crisper and more clearly. This was a great side effect of the use of Vilantae and I thought actually might warrant use just for this reason even if I didn't have acne.

The Results

It wasn't long before I started to notice that my acne was decreasing. Within a couple of weeks I had no acne at all. This was the first time in about 7 years that I had been completely acne free for more than a day or two.

Afterwards

It is now four years later and although I actually stopped taking Vilantae some time ago I still do not have acne and it's never come back. This leads me to believe that some sort of permanent change is made internally that stops our bodies from being acne prone. I only feel this from my personal experience though, so I do not know if there are any studies on this subject.

Recommendation

To say that I recommend this product is a huge understatement. If you have oily skin and you've tried all of the topical products with similar results as I did then you really have to try Vilantae. Why aren't the effects of Vitamin B5 more well known?

My theory of why this product hasn't gained more recognition is that selling worthless topical acne products is a billion dollar industry that would shrivel away to nothing if people knew how to actually cure their acne. Vitamin B5 is a bad product for the big corporations to sell for two reasons. The first one being that it's a very cheap, very plentiful product and thus can't be priced all that high. The second being that since it actually works and actually cures acne rather than doing nothing in the long run it's going to take away a lot of business.

That may be a bit too "conspiracy theory" for some of you folks, but really, this is the way capitalism works. You have to realize that these companies do not have your interests at heart. They just want to take your money.

Human beings only exist in the present. What we know is that we are constantly bombarded with sensory data from the environment. In order to make sense of this information, we filter it and store it as an internal representation or map. Anything not being experienced in the moment is a memory.

Often when individuals come to see me, for NLP in Herts, it is the memory of past events that are causing them a problem in the present. Specifically, it is the way the person re-experiences the past event during the process of remembering that accounts for distress in the present.

Change Personal History works by enabling the person to re-evaluate and make changes to the memory of past events. What's more, the person is able to make use of current resources and knowledge that they have now, but didn't have access to at the time the event occurred. So, whilst it's not ever possible to change what actually happened, it is possible to change the meaning of past events and hence the effect this has on an individual's behaviour.

During the Change Personal History process, the client is supported in re-living the event firstly in a dissociated state and secondly in an associated state, with the aid of a stacked resource anchor. The anchor is carefully chosen and built by the client and NLP practitioner. The client is giving the opportunity to imagine speaking directly to those involved in the event (this is done out loud), enabling the client to express what they needed too but were unable too at the time the event occurred. The client is supported to make changes to the event, to make it how they want it to be, with the benefit of the chosen resources. Other steps are included in the process, depending on the nature of the problematic past memory and unique needs and goals of the client.

In my experience, this technique is very effective and there is no longer any need for people to allow past memories to keep impacting on life in the present. If you feel you may benefit from experiencing the change personal history process, it may be worthwhile booking an appointment with an NLP practitioner. This technique is available at NLP, Herts.

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