[MT] Re: Network: Creating the Perfect Statements, II

>I feel that our job is to find that feeling/statement and to work with it
cleanly, not polluting it in any way.

This is fascinating and shows how different approaches are amongst different
forms of therapies.

What Chrissie writes is of course perfectly correct in that you need the
client's very own words to access the right parts of the neurology or
body/mind if you will where the negative emotions are stored that we seek to
release through tapping.

Going beyond that, in NLP, we are encouraged to get the client to be "at
cause" regarding their problems, and what they say is used as a diagnostic
tool to tell you where in their thinking they're stuck- this stuckness being
the reason for them having the problems they came with in the first place.

I have found, interestingly enough, that when the client has released a
negative emotion successfully (by using an opening statement OF THEIR OWN
WORDS AND TOTALLY RIGHT FOR THEIR OWN MIND) they will change their
perception and move into being more "at cause", or, owning the problem, if
you will.

It is my personal opinion that someone who hasn't owned their problem yet
and still attributes it to an outside agency of any kind ("My dad's
nastiness made me have this problem - it's all his fault, I'm a victim, and
I sit here and suffer") still has a lot of work left to do. I certainly
wouldn't want to encourage them in their misconception by deliberately
placing the cause of the problem outside themselves. If they start from that
point, that's fine. Chrissie's clean language approach will then hopefully
shift them to the empowered position of owning not just the problem, but
therefore also the solution.

best,

Silvia

           
Received on Wed 17 Nov 1999 - 15:40:28 GMT