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The Renewal Times The Renewal Times is a publication of Renewal Technologies and is edited by Roger Ellerton. This newsletter may be republished without permission, provided it is reproduced in its entirety. To reproduce sections of the newsletter, please contact Renewal Technologies at info@renewal.ca. Please forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues. To become a subscriber, please Click Here! or visit www.renewal.ca/newsletter.htm Please note: The material in this newsletter is presented for information only. It is not a substitute for medical, psychological or professional advice. Please consult a qualified professional. Included in this newsletter:
****************** The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Thomas Henry Huxley ************ Choose Your Friends Carefully Choose your inner circle of friends wisely. They have an effect on how you respond emotionally to situations. A recent study revealed that people who spent a great deal of time together, such as couples or roommates, tended to adopt each other's emotional responses to stimuli over time. Surrounding yourself with happy, emotionally stable people may help you adopt their positive outlook. A person is more likely to start adopting the emotional reactions of his or her partner if the partner has a more dominant role in the relationship. Researchers speculate that similar emotional reactions to situations may draw some people together. In a study, people who were emotionally similar tended to maintain their relationship longer than people who had divergent emotional responses to stimuli. Emotional convergence between people over time. Anderson, C., Keltner, D., John, O. P., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003 May;84(5):1054-1068. -- Olive Oil is Good for You Keep foods from sticking to your grill this summer with an olive oil spray. It might have a favorable effect on your blood pressure. Research suggests that frequent olive oil use may aid in blood pressure control. In a study of people with hypertension, low saturated fat intake and frequent use of extra virgin olive oil reduced the amount of high blood pressure medication the study participants needed. Use olive oil spray instead of butter to flavor corn on the cob, too. Olive oil and reduced need for antihypertensive medications. Ferrara, L. A., Raimondi, A. S., d'Episcopo, L., Guida, L., Dello Russo, A., Marotta, T., Archives of Internal Medicine 2000 Mar 27;160(6):837-842. ***************************** NLP Practitioner Training NLP Master Practitioner Training -- Take your NLP knowledge and abilities to the next level! For our most recent schedule and a description of these workshops/seminars, please Click Here! For the location of our Training Centre in Ottawa (Stittsville), Ontario, please Click Here! ************* Linguistic Presuppositions NLP has two types of presuppositions - linguistic and epistemological. Linguistic presuppositions, the topic of this article, describe the information or relationships that must be accepted as true for the listener to make sense of what is being said. Epistemological presuppositions are fundamental beliefs, rules or principles that form the base of a system. For example, our mathematical systems are built on a basic set of rules. The NLP presuppositions can be viewed as a fundamental set of principles on how you may choose to live your life. A linguistic presupposition is something that is overtly expressed in the body of the statement itself, which must be presupposed or accepted in order for the sentence or utterance to make sense. It is an inference that can be made from the structure of language that provides a path from the words expressed by someone (often called the surface structure) to what is actually going on inside the person (inner feelings, thoughts, memories, beliefs, values -- the deep structure). Linguistic presuppositions allow for the internal universe of the speaker to be revealed; and thus presumed by the listener from the words that the person is using. The information that a person reveals through speech is not necessarily accurate or correct and will nonetheless reveal what they hold to be true in their model of the world. As the listener gains an understanding of the internal representations of the speaker, she can use different sentence structures or a change in words to offer the original speaker alternative internal representations for consideration - thus potentially assisting the original speaker to expand/loosen his model of the world.Identifying Linguistic Presuppositions As the receiver of a communication, it is important to distinguish between what is presupposed in a communication and what you superimpose or assume based on your interpretation of the communication through your filters, history, beliefs and values. How often have you been in a conversation with someone and then made an assumption about what they were saying only to find out that you had guessed wrong! This happens quite often and can be the cause of misunderstandings or arguments, resulting in lost friendships/relationships. These inferences, deductions or conjectures that we infer from what has been said (based on how we see the world or our beliefs) are often called mind reads in NLP. For example, consider the following sentence: “Ivan left town yesterday after causing a great deal of suffering.” Which of the following are presuppositions and which are mind reads?
I was being tricky here -- they are all mind-reads! Ivan could be many different things -- a person, a dog, a hurricane, … . There is nothing in the sentence that presupposes that Ivan will return. Ivan caused suffering and we do not know if it was physical or emotional suffering. Did you identify them all as mind-reads or did you make assumptions based on your model of the world? More examples:
We will discover how to gain more clarity on what a person has said through the Meta Model, the subject of a future article. Using Linguistic Presuppositions You can use linguistic presuppositions to assist your listener in gaining a different perspective on a problem or the world in general. Please note: From an NLP perspective, we respect the other person’s model of the world and only assist our listener in viewing things differently, if he has given us permission to do so. You also need to be aware of the presuppositions that you use in every day language as they can have a significant impact on the listener. For example, my father recently passed away and many well-intentioned people said something like “I know you are sad at the loss of your father.” To make sense of this sentence, I had to accept the presupposition of ‘being sad’ and what do you think was the potential impact on my emotional state? Now consider the sentence “I know you will find the strength to cope with the loss of your father.” Would this not put me in a different state of mind? To gain a better perspective on the power of linguistic presuppositions, consider the following examples:
I have used double binds a number of times, with great results. In one situation, I was dealing with a large national company and was getting the run-around from their staff. Fortunately, I had documented all of our communications. Finally, I wrote a letter to each member of the company’s Board of Directors, with an attachment providing full details on how I had been treated. The final sentence of my letter was the following: “Either you fully support how your staff has handled this or you commit to resolving it in a way that is mutually satisfactory to all parties” (notice the double bind). Two weeks later, I received an offer that exceeded my expectations!
For linguistic presuppositions to be effective, they must be accepted by the listener’s unconscious mind. Obviously, rapport and the listener having a sense of safety are essential to this activity, as is the case for any other change related activity. And NLP is Much more than that! Author: Roger Ellerton is a certified NLP trainer, certified management consultant and the founder and managing partner of Renewal Technologies. He can be reached at Renewal Technologies www.renewal.ca or by e-mail info@renewal.ca ******* While sitting in your chair, lift your right foot slightly off the ground and move it in clockwise circles. Now draw the numeral "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will involuntarily reverse direction." **************** For more information, please visit our website or contact us at 613 692-1424 or info@renewal.ca Copyright © 2004, Renewal Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.
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