NLP Email Training 35

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If one could only love enough, one would be the most powerful person in the world.

Emkett Fox

Position 1-2-3
Change Your Perspective

In NLP, people can learn to deliberately adopt different perspectives. This often allows conflicts and problems to be viewed from completely different angles, making solutions more likely. The overarching goal here is increased flexibility in perception.

In the first position, we experience the world from our own perspective, with our own assumptions and beliefs. We see the outside world through our own eyes and are associated with our own standpoint, i.e., we experience our own feelings.

In the second position, we experience a situation from another person's perspective. We step into someone else's shoes and experience the world from their standpoint: We hear with this person's ears, see with their eyes, and feel as they do. Act as if you were this person, what would you perceive, think, and feel? You have used this ability many times, e.g., in role-playing, or in recognizing another person's needs, perhaps also in an exciting movie. In doing so, we dissociate from ourselves and associate with another person.

In the third position, a situation is perceived from the standpoint of an uninvolved, external observer. This observer experiences the situation neutrally, taking no sides. Like a behavioral scientist, they look at a situation and are amazed by, for example, human conflict behavior. This position has much distance from the other two and the situation.

Exercise for This Week

1. Try to consciously experience the first position. Fully associate yourself with your own sensations and feelings.
2. Then prepare to move into the second position:
   • a) Vividly imagine another person. Imagine how this person acts, moves, thinks, and feels. What does this person believe? What experiences have they had in their life?
   • b) Then imagine going "into their body": adopting exactly this posture, moving exactly like them, speaking like them, etc. Feel the feelings of the other person.
3. Imagine a past situation with distance. As if you were an uninvolved observer. Someone who is not personally involved. It hardly affects you what happened there. Use all the dissociation techniques you know, e.g., cinema room, plexiglass pane, etc.

Supplementary links

Audio:

1-2-3 Positions >>>
Here Stephan explains the 1-2-3 positions format and its benefits.

Text:

Meta-Mirror >>>
The Meta-Mirror developed by R. Dilts is an extension of the 1-2-3 positions and is described here.

Test:

Test 07 >>>
Small success check for lessons 31 - 35

Metaphor of the Week
The Cross-Eyed Chicken

Once upon a time, there was a chicken that was very cross-eyed. Because of this, the cross-eyed chicken saw the whole world a bit crooked and believed it was actually crooked. For example, it also saw its fellow chickens and the rooster crooked. It always walked a bit sideways and often bumped into walls. On a windy day, the cross-eyed chicken walked past the Leaning Tower of Pisa with its fellow chickens. "Look at that," said the chickens, "the wind has blown this tower crooked." The cross-eyed chicken also looked at the tower and found it completely straight. It said nothing but thought to itself that the other chickens might be cross-eyed.

Book Recommendation

NLP Card Index. Practitioner Set
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Short Description:
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