Going Back To Where It Started
By V on Jun 17, 2008 in Products, Quotes, Ramblings
I’ve decided to spend some of my summer learning from the works of/about Milton Erickson.
Erickson’s techniques evolved into what we know as Neuro Linguistic Programming. NLP is much like what the PUA community has become; many “know-it-alls” selling their opinions as fact.
This summer is limited and I can’t filter through all the NLP material out there, but I can get through much of the Erickson material . . . I hope . . .
The first book I’m working through is The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson by Ronald A. Havens.
Here are some of my notes:
- One of his most effective hypnotic inductions is “Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!”
- He was fond of saying that life’s difficulties were merely necessary roughage.
- He concluded that he should begin to trust his own understandings and not allow them to be distorted “by somebody else’s imperfect knowledge.”
- Erickson concluded that no single theory could explain or describe adequately the incredible variety and unique complexity of individual functioning.
- Erickson often spent hours considering the structure and content of his interventions and rarely, if ever, relied upon intuitive hunches or trial and error.
- He developed his remarkable understandings of how people behave by observing them very closely, open-mindedly, and almost naively. He did not sit in his office reading or thinking about how people operate-he watched them.
- He did not become immersed in theories which he then tried to apply to various patients-he noticed what his patients did and modified his thinking in response.
- Erickson’s spectacular success was based upon his willingness to let people teach him what was real or true about themselves and not upon unique theoretical construct.
- He learned by paying attention, experimenting, and making notes of what happened.
- In many respects Erickson was a master detective first and a master therapist and hypnotist only as a consequence.
- “Observe!”
I’ll continue through this book and I’ll continue to post notes.
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Cool. Have you been sarging or did you take a break this summer?
I just go out Friday and Saturday.
V
I wanted to know do you ever pray to help you out? Is prayer have any relation to your success or life?
I do not believe in praying, so it wouldn’t work for me if I did try it.
If you believe in prayer than it’ll do amazing things for you.
V
Erickson was a genius. I highly recommend Uncommon Therapy if you haven’t gotten it already. Also Phoenix: Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson, which is harder to find but is one of the best introductions to his techniques.
I’ll definitely check those books out, if available. First I have to get away from these girls around me so I have to get some time to read. . . . Maybe after Canada Day . . .
V
what do you think of David Shade?
If you find value in him then take his programs and/or buy his books.
V
you could be a politician with that response, V
why dont you ever update this blog like you used to? Its really going downhill.