| Humanising Language Teaching Year 3; Issue 4; July 2001 Voice of a trainee on an NLP course ( In this group the trainees and the tutor were in regular contact by letter- The text below is an excerpt from a trainee letter. Letter contact allows the tutor a private line to each trainee who decides they want to write to him and is a different channel from a one-to-one conversation.) " ……I wanted to thank you for the wonderful experience you are giving us, but, tell me the truth, do you think it is really necessary to explore, select, atomize the wonderful machine that is our body? We had spent so many years to build such a delicate balance and now we live well with it.. It is because it is. Who knows how or why or what? And other people are just other surprises. Why should we lift the magic curtain that is behind anybody's behaviour? Sparkling champagne that pours out of the bottle, fireworks, atoms running one after the other in an atomic explosion: this is what I want to see. Life is there, but the moment you open the tap, you may spoil it. I admit that this NLP is a wonderful adventure that to me has some risks, one of which is that of stealing the secret of life. Is it really worthwhile? Believe me, these words come from a person who has very seldom asked questions to himself and so far has lived, at least apparently, happily. I am a bit afraid. Am I what I am, what I think to be, what you see me or want me to be? It is strange. It is a week that I am suffering from terrible pains in the limbs ( neck, shoulder and wrist, all on the left side) . If they are related to the right hemisphere, this might mean that my feelings/emotional area has been touched, that the balance is broken. The body, therefore, is sending me messages. It is discharging enormous quantities of energy through these aches. Will it be more painful if I go on? I want to leave you with a proverb of William Blake which I like a lot and which I'll try to follow: You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. Good Night, E."