Creating our own Reality
Reality – what a concept. A long time ago a friend said “reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.” But I think it is more than that. The nature of reality is a fascinating topic that has long captivated the human imagination and could easily take many more pages of writing than anyone would want to …
More Reverse Meta Model Patterns
Complex Equivalence A complex equivalence is a statement of a belief. Famously, in some people’s model of the world, it is one of the two forms of a belief that is used in Sleight of Mouth. (Cause/effect is the other) The simple structure of a complex equivalent is “X means Y.” This means that. They are equivalent. “Your trance experience …
More Reverse Meta Model Patterns
Lost Performative “Lost Performative” is a category within the meta-model in which evaluative statements (where something is judged as “good” or “bad”) don’t the identity the person doing the evaluating. A natural Meta-model response would be “Says who?” As a meta model example, if someone said, “It’s good to eat pizza.” You might respond, “Really? Who says so?” or “According to whom?” …
Reverse Meta Model
Reverse Meta Model In NLP the “meta model” is Richard Bandler’s and John Grinder’s name for the wellformedness conditions of the surface structure of the English language*. (*- for more on this see their book “Structure of Magic.”) It’s based on the recognition that all language has presuppositions, deletions, distortions and generalizations. The meta model was employed to expose those …
Phrasing
Ericksonian Hypnotic Language Patterns We all know that words alone are only a small fraction of communication. The way those words are said constitute a much higher percentage of the communication received. In the same way, Hypnotic Language Patterns are hugely effected by the way they are said. The tonality with which they are said and the tonal shifts used …
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