Should/Have To and Need/Want
Date: June 14, 2004 03:04AM
a great technique for reclaiming "locus of control", the confident sense that you are directing your own thought processes, is a phrase borrowed from the intelligence community, "walk the cat backwards".
Write out your best literal understanding of what these terms mean. Explain what the disctinctions are so that a non-participant could easily understand what about them makes them distinct. Why is this distinction necessary ? What function does it serve ? Where do you apply it ? In what was does using the distinction change things ?
If you cannot come up with a very good, compelling explanation for the NEED to make that distinction, you can bet your pants that it is either thought-looping jargon, or a philosophically trivial distinction (sounds important, but isn't), or it was used as part of a hypnotic trance induction ( to get your conscious mind wrapped up in a dizzying abstract maze while a number of hypnotic suggestion were being installed ).
Think hard, what was the totality of the discussion, what other things we being suggested, implied, or alluded to while this distinction was being talked about ? What state of mind were you in ? Euphoric, threatened, bored, under psychic seige, jumping from one idea to another ? What happened right before, what happened right after ? In NLP terms, what emotional states and though processes were covertly anchored (!!!) to these distinctions ? Whan you consider these distinctions, what movies play out in your mind, what images do you see, what internal dialog, or monolog do you hear, what bodily feelings, and what emotional/psychic feeling do you experience ? Tingling, shortness of breath, spinning or imbalanced sensations, floating upwards, sinking downwards, or whatever.
The more specifically you can describe EVERY association on as many psychic levels as possible that are associated with this thought process, the better you will understand the full "neuro associative structure" that only consciously appears to be an intellectual exercise.