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Language for Healing! 

A Better Life through the Lens of Language 

 

This is the ultimate in 'Freudian Slip' thinking.  The idea is that whatever language you use reflects very accurately what's going on in your mind, whether you're aware of it or not.  By becoming aware of the language you use, you can become aware of what is going on in your noggin, and then (this is the exciting part) you can start to have conversations with yourself that facilitate change in your life!

Heads Up!

These books were written in the 70s.  (Let that sink in!) 

They are replete with full sentences and very deep concepts.  This is not 'magic in 10 seconds or less.'  If, however, you're truly interested in change, it's worth the adventure.  

 

 

The books have a wide range of pricing, so I'm providing some cliff notes here for folks to see if this is the type of thing you want to pursue.  Because it's so dense, I'll be providing snippets of information.

Cliff Notes: 

Chapter 1: The Structure of Choice

 
It looks like magic

There are some folks in the psychotherapeutic community which are really good at what they do -- it's like they're doing magic!

 

....operations of an almost mysterious character, which run counter to ordinary procedure in a more or less paradoxical way.  They are methods which give an onlooker the impression of magic if he be not himself initiated or equally skilled in the mechanism.

H. Vaihinger, The Philosphy of As If, p 11

     

With observation, though, it's possible to figure out the process they use.  The process, which is defined, can then be adopted and used in many different ways.

 
We interact with our concept of reality

The key to change is understanding that we interact with our concept of reality, and not reality itself, and we can't really get away from that. 

Where the logical function actively intervenes, it alters what is given and causes it to depart from reality. We cannot even describe the elementary processes of the psyche without at every step meeting this disturbing — or shall we say helpful? — factor. As soon as sensation has entered the sphere of the psyche, it is drawn into the whirlpool of the logical processes. The psyche quite of its own accord alters both what is given and presented. Two things are to be distinguished in this process: First, the actual forms in which this change takes place; and secondly, the products obtained from the original material by this change.

 

The organized activity of the logical function draws into itself all the sensations and constructs an inner world of its own, which progressively departs from reality but yet at certain points still retains so intimate a connection with it that transitions from one to the other continually take place and we hardly notice that we are acting on a double stage — our own inner world (which, of course, we objectify as the world of sense-perception) and also an entirely different and external world.

H. Vaihinger, The Philosphy of As If, p 159-160

     

 

While our concept of reality can never cover all the nuances of reality, 

It must be remembered that the object of the world of ideas as a whole [the map or model — RWB/JTG] is not the portrayal of reality — this would be an utterly impossible task — but rather to provide us with an instrument for finding our way about more easily in the world.

H. Vaihinger, The Philosphy of As If, p 159-160

     

 

 if we construct the our concept of reality well, it is useful.     

... important characteristics of maps should be noted. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness...

      

A. Korzybski, Science & Sanity, 4th Ed., 1958, pp. 58-60.

  

 

How does this sit with you?  How do you see things differently now?

You might consider, what insight do you get after contemplating the veracity of this?  Does it make sense?  Does it hang together? 

There is more to come!  Next will be a little bit about how the maps are made.

How I found out about it

Back in like '90, I found these books for sale in Bookstop and scarfed up these and other books by these authors and Steve and Connierae Andreas.  I leant them to someone.  (Don't do that.)  I recently found copies in a reseller's store and I have found some pdfs online.  Look around and you, too, may find them at a bargain somewhere!

Enjoy!

  

Lynn

 

Reiki Master since 1997
 Certified Resonance Repatterning Practitioner since 1997

 

1/06/17

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