Phonological are words with the same sound yet different meanings, such as “your” and “you’re”.
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Presuppositions: Selectional Restriction Violation
Selectional Restriction Violation is the act of attributing intelligence or animation to inanimate objects. “Your chair can support you as you relax and enjoy yourself.” or “Your journal tells interesting stories.”
Presuppositions: Extended Quote
An Extended Quote is a embedded context for the delivery of information that may be in the format of a command. “Many years ago, I met a retired army Sargent who taught me many useful things. He said to me “Change is easy and can be fun”.”
Presuppositions: Unspecified Verb
An Unspecified Verb implies action without describing how the action has or will take place. “He caused the problem.”
Presuppositions: Lost Performative
Lost Performative is when someone says something that contains a rule or judgement without anyone taking responsibility for it. It can include an implication of an idea instead of a direct statement such as “Breathing is good.” A suggestion is presented to the subconscious stating that some opinion is true, but does not say how […]
Six-Step Reframe
The steps of the Six-Step Reframe technique are: 1. Identify the behavior, response or signal you want to change 2. Communicate with the part responsible for the behavior Literally talk to the part. Respectfully ask “Will the part responsible for X communicate with me consciously now?” Then carefully notice the signals or response you get. It may be words, sounds, […]
Presuppositions: The More, The More
Once some degree of rapport is established, this presupposition subtly leverages a resistant behavior as a consequence to the desired action. “The more you try to resist going into a trance, the more you find your eyes wanting to shut all by themselves.”
Presuppositions: Tag Questions
These are Milton Model questions that encourage a client to confirm the truth of the words immediately preceding, aren’t they? If you read that question again, its almost impossible not to say ‘Yes’, isn’t it? It’s always good to get the client into a positive frame of mind, I’m sure you would agree? If the […]
Presuppositions of NLP
The principles which form the foundation of NLP have been modeled from key people who consistently produced consistent and successful results. Have respect for the other person’s model of the world. We are all unique and experience the world in different ways. Everyone is individual and has their own special way of being. The map is […]
Presuppositions: Ambiguity
When words have double meaning, the unconscious mind must process all meanings. Words like down, left, duck, hand, back all have double meanings. Then there are words spelled differently and pronounced the same. Hear/here, your/you’re, nose/knows are examples. These can be extremely helpful in helping us produce embedded suggestions. “One of the things that’s most […]