My response to Robin before the oops was my attempt at the form. If you want a more in depth look check out anything Jone Ginder or Richard Bandler wrote about their modeling work on Milton Erickson.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "noah" <wayback71@...> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@> > wrote: > > > > Just weighing in on the interview, I just watched most of it. Funny how > > the metaphor for Rick looking so clear in the video and him being fuzzy > > kind of expressed how I felt a lot of the time. > > > > I am left with the impression that these guys require you to meet them a > > bit more than half way on the assumptions train. And he is perpetuating > > the assumptions his own teacher ran on him which he bought into. The big > > elephant in the room is the question of why we should confer on this guy > > any more or less of a status of knowing more about reality or truth than we > > already to in order to place ourselves into the relationship with him as > > teacher which he is inviting us to assume. Interestingly enough this is > > precisely the conditions of conferring authority on someone else that oils > > the wheels for a hypnotic session. Not to say he is hypnotizing his > > audience in some sideshow obvious way. But his language is the language > > analyzed in NLP as hypnotic in nature in that it invites the listener to > > take the rather vague non sensory phrases, and find something in themselves > > that fits or makes sense. The difference from this and poetry which uses > > some of the same linguistic patterns is the context that he has a deeper > > insight from the beginning than you do. > > What are non sensory phrases? Cn you give a few exmples? >
