COLUMN
The Presuppositions of NLP
One Cannot Not Communicate
By Caitlin Collins
T
he NLP presuppositions are awake in the middle of the night going to ask her ten questions to you that indicate she’s lying! It’s
tools to help us transcend with a menopausal panic attack, which you both know the answers, difficult to deceive someone who
limiting beliefs about ourselves looking for sympathy, and all and she’s going to tell some lies – knows this trick! The external
and our world. You don’t have he’d do is sleep furiously at her. and of course you’ll know which expressions of other people’s
to believe or disbelieve any It seems that whatever someone ones they are. Here’s the clever feelings will vary, and our deeper
presupposition; just consider does, or doesn’t do, someone else bit: don’t pay much attention to awareness is better able than our
the implications of acting ‘as if ’ can perceive it as meaningful! her, but focus instead on your own conscious mind is to detect them.
you believed it, imagining the It’s said that you need a poker inner responses as she’s talking. We can trust our gut feelings!
differences doing so could make to face to bluff your opponent at Now ask her some questions Along the same lines, emotions
your life. cards. But just how possible is it to to which you don’t know the are catching. Have you ever
A friend of mine used to inhibit the natural expression of answers; again, she’s to tell some noticed yourself feeling oddly
complain about her husband’s your feelings? Ask a friend to help lies. Notice your inner responses sad or agitated, and wondered
aggressive sleeping: she’d be wide you with this experiment. You’re – and you’ll notice the changes in what’s going on? The feeling
doesn’t seem to be coming from
you, but where else could it have
come from? Well, we don’t live
in a vacuum; we’re connected
with others around us. And while
most of us are sensitive to and
able to share others’ feelings to
some degree, in some people this
ability is more evolved. If asked,
these ‘natural empaths’ may not
consciously know how they know
that someone else is upset – the
other person may be good at
disguising it – but the natural
empath’s deep awareness picks
it up and makes it known by
triggering the same emotion in
him- or her- self.
And the moral of all this is...?
Don’t play poker with a natural
empath!
Caitlin Collins:
www.naturalmindmagic.com
cait@globalnet.co.uk
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