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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 7:32:17 PM
1.NLP Presupositions
All distinctions use our senses
There is a distinct sense that this is plainly obvious. How else indeed, you do experience reality with your senses of sight, sound, touch / feel, smell and taste. It only makes sense.
Experience is not reality.
Reality is the physical environment which you are subjected to every moment of everyday. You interpret whatever of it has meaning for you to create your experience. Interpreting reality in a different way changes your experience of it.
Changing experience has more value than changing reality
If thought is the cause of what we experience now, then what we think now will be the cause of what we experience in the future. Having choices about how to think about reality now, changes your experience of it.
The meaning of your communication = results you get.
Your intended communication is not always what is perceived. You can change your communication until your desired results are obtained. What you intend to communicate, or what you actually communicate, which is more important?
Results are feedback not "failure". Feedback sets direction.
Feedback = food for thought. Failure produces results that allow you to improve. Results are the means by which you measure your progress and adjust your behavior to achieve your worthy ideal. Feed-forward.
All behavior has positive intent
One of two reasons; anticipation of pleasure or avoidance of pain. Not everyone has the same idea of what is pleasure and what is pain. Find alternate ways to achieve the positive intent of inappropriate behaviors.
Individual value constant. Question behavior.
The value of any behavior is dependent upon the context and environment that it is occurring in. The individual is always valuable, sometimes the individuals behavior is inappropriate for the context and should be changed.
You already have it in you.
Everything a person needs to effect a change is already in them, nudging it in the right direction will get the ball rolling.
2.Info Deletion
According to the NLP Meta Model, we start arriving at our model/map of reality through deleting reality.
The NLP Meta Model describes the process people use to experience their unique reality.
'Leave out' or 'ignore' may be physically more accurate than delete, but it is easier to think of as information being deleted. When you 'delete' information as in (A.1.) below, some of it is not physically present to be retrieved and some of it is. The NLP Meta and Milton models show how mental process we use involves deletion distortion and generalization, it's reflected in their language.
Reality is complete.
You experience reality by deleting huge amounts of it (sensory input).
You then delete some of what you have experienced when you remember it.
You then delete some of what you remember of experience when you communicate about it.
In each step above, what is deleted depends on: Context, sensory relevance, conditioned responses, beliefs and values.
E.g. Have you ever used only one word, like "Fantastic!" or "Great!" to describe your vacation to someone?
Your communication deletes tremendous amounts of information. In order to understand what is being communicated, a person may use their own experiences to fill in what's been deleted (This is how deletion is used in the Milton Model). Misunderstanding is created when the deletions are not filled in the way the communicator intended. When you want to acquire a better understanding, you'll ask questions about the information you are getting. You want to reverse the way people transform experience into language, to get closer to the actual experience. You can also help others expand their existing experience of reality in a way that helps them deal with it more effectively, by questioning what they are deleting from it.
A sentence may contain several deletions. Which one you ask a question about, depends on the response you want to get. If you don't get the response you want, ask another question or another type of question. To get more information about someone's experience, a simple question to ask yourself is "What is being deleted here?".
The version of how to question deletions, shown below, has had details deleted. Learning the detailed version will enable you to use this simple one more effectively.
Elements of language that delete experience.
Deletion: Information is missing and people presume you know what it is.
Too Much, Too many, Too expensive. Ask: Compared to what?
Unspecified Verbs. Ask: How?
Nouns. Ask: Who or what?
Distortion: Information is kind 'a there but it's not.
Verbs made into nouns. Ask: What?
Missing source of opinion. Ask: How do you know?
Generalization: Information is limited, restricting.
Universals: All, Every, Never. Ask: All? Every? Never?
Quantifiers: Should, Shouldn’t, Must, Can’t. Ask: What if you did or didn't? What causes or prevents?
The above describes how people experience reality, using that information requires noticing it in reverse order. Start noticing how people generalize their experience of reality.
Deletion relates directly to the core of experience and as such, cannot be deleted.
All distinctions use our senses
There is a distinct sense that this is plainly obvious. How else indeed, you do experience reality with your senses of sight, sound, touch / feel, smell and taste. It only makes sense.
Experience is not reality.
Reality is the physical environment which you are subjected to every moment of everyday. You interpret whatever of it has meaning for you to create your experience. Interpreting reality in a different way changes your experience of it.
Changing experience has more value than changing reality
If thought is the cause of what we experience now, then what we think now will be the cause of what we experience in the future. Having choices about how to think about reality now, changes your experience of it.
The meaning of your communication = results you get.
Your intended communication is not always what is perceived. You can change your communication until your desired results are obtained. What you intend to communicate, or what you actually communicate, which is more important?
Results are feedback not "failure". Feedback sets direction.
Feedback = food for thought. Failure produces results that allow you to improve. Results are the means by which you measure your progress and adjust your behavior to achieve your worthy ideal. Feed-forward.
All behavior has positive intent
One of two reasons; anticipation of pleasure or avoidance of pain. Not everyone has the same idea of what is pleasure and what is pain. Find alternate ways to achieve the positive intent of inappropriate behaviors.
Individual value constant. Question behavior.
The value of any behavior is dependent upon the context and environment that it is occurring in. The individual is always valuable, sometimes the individuals behavior is inappropriate for the context and should be changed.
You already have it in you.
Everything a person needs to effect a change is already in them, nudging it in the right direction will get the ball rolling.
2.Info Deletion
According to the NLP Meta Model, we start arriving at our model/map of reality through deleting reality.
The NLP Meta Model describes the process people use to experience their unique reality.
'Leave out' or 'ignore' may be physically more accurate than delete, but it is easier to think of as information being deleted. When you 'delete' information as in (A.1.) below, some of it is not physically present to be retrieved and some of it is. The NLP Meta and Milton models show how mental process we use involves deletion distortion and generalization, it's reflected in their language.
Reality is complete.
You experience reality by deleting huge amounts of it (sensory input).
You then delete some of what you have experienced when you remember it.
You then delete some of what you remember of experience when you communicate about it.
In each step above, what is deleted depends on: Context, sensory relevance, conditioned responses, beliefs and values.
E.g. Have you ever used only one word, like "Fantastic!" or "Great!" to describe your vacation to someone?
Your communication deletes tremendous amounts of information. In order to understand what is being communicated, a person may use their own experiences to fill in what's been deleted (This is how deletion is used in the Milton Model). Misunderstanding is created when the deletions are not filled in the way the communicator intended. When you want to acquire a better understanding, you'll ask questions about the information you are getting. You want to reverse the way people transform experience into language, to get closer to the actual experience. You can also help others expand their existing experience of reality in a way that helps them deal with it more effectively, by questioning what they are deleting from it.
A sentence may contain several deletions. Which one you ask a question about, depends on the response you want to get. If you don't get the response you want, ask another question or another type of question. To get more information about someone's experience, a simple question to ask yourself is "What is being deleted here?".
The version of how to question deletions, shown below, has had details deleted. Learning the detailed version will enable you to use this simple one more effectively.
Elements of language that delete experience.
Deletion: Information is missing and people presume you know what it is.
Too Much, Too many, Too expensive. Ask: Compared to what?
Unspecified Verbs. Ask: How?
Nouns. Ask: Who or what?
Distortion: Information is kind 'a there but it's not.
Verbs made into nouns. Ask: What?
Missing source of opinion. Ask: How do you know?
Generalization: Information is limited, restricting.
Universals: All, Every, Never. Ask: All? Every? Never?
Quantifiers: Should, Shouldn’t, Must, Can’t. Ask: What if you did or didn't? What causes or prevents?
The above describes how people experience reality, using that information requires noticing it in reverse order. Start noticing how people generalize their experience of reality.
Deletion relates directly to the core of experience and as such, cannot be deleted.
