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Metaphors for NLP & Teaching. I love stories and occasionally come across or write little metaphors and stories that have proved useful (or at least entertaining) giving a new perspective on an issue.

Metaphors for NLP & Teaching

Was it Gregory Bateson who said that everything is a metaphor for everything else? Or is that another story? Just stepping out of the problem space and using anything that you perceive as a metaphor for your problem can provide a new perspective that allows you to see it in a new way. And NLP is all about new perspectives. This is a growing collection of metaphors for use in NLP, training, and teaching. コメントを残す コメントを投稿するにはログインしてください。 Therapy Metaphors. Therapy Metaphors Therapy metaphors use a story or illustration to see alternative ways of looking at something.

Therapy Metaphors

Every culture and religion uses these types of stories, analogies, parables to improve understanding, make a point more memorable, and help us make positive changes. The example metaphors here are to help us see thoughts – their nature and role - in a different light. Just that alone, seeing thoughts differently, helps to create a space, a distance, between us and our thoughts, which helps us to stand back a little, see things a bit more objectively, and make wiser and more helpful decisions about how to react effectively. Passengers on the Bus You can be in the driving seat, whilst all the passengers (thoughts) are being critical, abusive, intrusive, distracting, and shouting directions, or sometimes just plain nonsense.

(Hayes et al 1999) 'Demons on the Boat' video at YouTube - a variation of Passengers on the Bus. Playground Bully y keep children in, and others out. The River. Metaphor Story, Metaphor Stories - 121 Metaphor Stories about healing, change and salvation by Dr Silvia Hartmann. 121 Original Metaphor Stories About Human Change, Healing & Salvation Created by Silvia Hartmann For "Aromatherapy For Your Soul" What Is A Metaphor Story?

Metaphor Story, Metaphor Stories - 121 Metaphor Stories about healing, change and salvation by Dr Silvia Hartmann

| Change & Energy | Metaphor Stories & Human Experience | Metaphor Stories & Fairy Tales | Example Metaphor Story Wave | 121 Metaphor Stories About Healing & Change | 3 Example Metaphor Stories | More About Metaphor Stories What is a metaphor story? A metaphor story is any kind of story which contains elements that you can FEEL IN YOUR BODY. It is the energetic content of a metaphor story acting on the energy body which produces emotions - and those are physical sensations in the absence of a physical stimulus a person very literally "feels in their own body". Change Is Energy Movement There are many words and many stories; but not all stories cause CHANGE. Metaphor Examples. There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.

Metaphor Examples

His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out.

" A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. " anon. The Erotic Mind-Control Story Archive. Hypnosis Sessions & Meditations.