ABSTRACT
Health is a very desirable state of existence, yet it is also a very complex, all-embracing and hard-to-control state of existence. In trying to develop healthy co-creations with practitioners' patients it is helpful to keep perspective of the mutual interconnectedness of thoughts, feelings and behaviours. The life-blood of their co-creations is their thoughts, feelings and actions. Thoughts, feelings and actions are all highly relational, so by influencing one, practitioners can influence the others. Words can directly influence all three, at the same moment. Both helpful and unhelpful cycles can become self-fulfilling. When they can help themselves and others see things more clearly, practitioners can help to change things for the better – not just in theory but in practice. Once they realise practitioners can approach the same situation with different thoughts, different feelings and different behaviours we can see that we have a choice.
