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One of the things about being effective in belief change is the way you interject and weaken undesired mental images and strengthen desired images in people’s minds.
For instance, someone may have a very firm belief (maybe even paranoia) that someone is plotting against them in the office (lol — well who isn’t). In this case, you can basically do a number of things to weaken those mental images.
One way is to use a simple pattern interrupt. If you are adept enough, you can weave this in smoothly without causing a serious break in rapport. Another way that is common is to offer counter examples within your conversation itself. The targeted undesired belief can then be diminished greatly.
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A pattern interrupt is an interruption in a specific flow or sequence. The main aim is to prevent any obvious linkage and thereby neurological conditioning. The other purpose is to weaken the old strategy and prevent it from having the same level of intensity as before.
If you knew that looking at the color blue would make your client feel fear, all you need to do is to interrupt the pattern before the fear kicks in. Display the stimulus, then interrupt the pattern. This can make the stimulus lose the original effect.
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Why am I not surprised that more and more people are feeling pain?
Pain the neck. Pain in the back. Pain in the shoulders. Pain in the wrist. Pain in the knee.
Is it possible for NLP to help one to relieve pain? Well, since there are pain receptors in our brain, and we can manage our brain, it is definitely possible for you to reduce and possibly eliminate pain in your body. One approach you can use is to observe yourself and to test out what it feels like to remove feeling in general. It is possible for you to basically focus and begin to feel that your arm is getting warm or even numb.
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Many of the best counselors, therapists and coaches I know are people who are able to use langauge effectively. However, not everyone knows the impact of language, so I’ll expound on this idea for a moment here.
Language has a surface structure and a deep structure. The surface structure is basically what we know as “syntax” or the rules of sentence formation. However, the deep structure of our experience is neither rule-based nor structured. If I said “Tall, tanned women purr seductively” we can make some sense out of it, and we can say that this is a properly well structured sentence. There’s a lot of meaning in there too!
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I took a look at the Wikipedia definition and realized that it was pretty inaccurate and outdated. Reframing is a common practice in psychotherapy and counseling as a technique to provide a different perspective in the mind of the client. The process of reframing constitutes the following:
- assessing if the current mental concept, belief or value is useful in the present context
- provide a possible perspective
To reframe it so that it “hits the nail on the head”, you need to reframe it at the level that presented the problem.
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Based on my meddling, I’ve come up with the concept of State-Based Reframing. I’ve discovered that to come up with a reframe, one needs to enter the appropriate emotional state.
e.g. Nobody believes in me
- (shock) what? really? I don’t believe that!
- (sarcasm) with that attitude who’s going to ever believe you?
- (humor) Lol – that’s unbelievable because I’m actually beginning to believe you!
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It comes a point of time when you ask yourself – who am I? What am I made of? Am I really a ____ person? It’s so common for an individual to feel that failure is a bad thing because we have gotten used to the fact that failing is bad.
In reality, failure is socially unacceptable. In organizations, people are usually not allowed to fail. There’s a double standard from top executives when they say “I can tolerate failure — as long as it doesn’t cost me anything”.
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For most, achieving their goals is something like “wishful thinking”. I’ve seen parodies of “The Secret” and they are unflattering, possibly insulting to our actual nature.
The real reason why you will want to set goals is to ensure that you constantly get enough motivation to keep moving. Goals are actually represented by your submodalities (we’ll have an article to talk about that later), which are affected by beliefs, values and identity.
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Each of these concepts requires a separate discussion, but the interesting thing you might want to do is to consider how compelling a goal really is. To make a goal compelling, you need to probably follow a sequence similar to this:
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I did an impromptu session with Dr. Ben Mack who grilled me about NLP and what I perceived it to be. It’s basically, to me, a modeling art. If you know how to model people, it’s a no-brainer modeling other kinds of skills.
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Deletion is a process by which individuals filter out information and turn to ‘selective attention’ mode. A common example can be illustrated in the diagram below.
It’s common when people are asked to read out the phrase, that they miss out the extra “the” within the triangle. This is used as an example to further discuss ideas about “blind spots” in our perception, where we look for things which may be right under our noses but can’t find them at all. Our mind filters out information.
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