"Neurological Repatterning"
As a researcher whose background is in
brain patterning I can tell you that if you tried to repattern your brain it would stop working.
Did he perhaps mean "rewiring the brain", otherwise known as "learning"?
I've known a few people over the years who are massively into taro, reiki and all that. Visiting or even running yer identikit "healing" shops etc. Lovely and kind to a fault, hence the friendships, but accidental prodding can reveal a mass of fragility, delusion and control freakery. All have experienced extreme trauma of some kind. Possibly papering over the cracks, innit. In some ways I envy it.
Back in my Skeptics In The Pub days I used to be very against alternative medicine but these days I've softened a bit. Sure, there are dishonest people who do dodgy things like selling homoeopathic malaria tablets and advising people to see alternative medicine not as
complementary but as a replacement for conventional treatments, but a lot of people genuinely do mean well.
Many people try alternative medicine for the first time because they have a chronic condition and have tried every conventional treatment first and it's done them no good. Then they find an alternative treatment finally gives them some relief and they become evangelical about it and eager to help others.
Sure, it was probably down to the placebo effect or regression to the mean or maybe some other lifestyle change they made around the same time, but it seems harsh to judge desperate people for eulogising about the thing which finally alleviated their symptoms.
I don't know about the "extreme trauma" thing, I'm talking more about people who have experienced chronic pain, chronic gastrointestinal issues etc. I know several people who are very into alternative medicine and the one thing they have in common is that they live in Brighton. There certainly is an awful lot of Mystic Woo Woo Crap For Tie-Dye Hippy Idiots in that part of the world.