A few weeks ago, I was posting on a thread in a private Facebook group for people who are masters of the art of change. One of the people posting on the thread was Jørgen Rasmussen, a true explorer in the domain of 1:1 work, and author of the fascinating book Provocative Hypnosis.
It struck me that many of the questions Jørgen was asking were the kind of things many people in the NLP, Hypnosis & Coaching community wonder when it comes to the work I’m doing these days, questions like:
– Are you really saying that people create their own reality?
– While thought has a lot to do with it, isn’t it overstating the case to say that 100% of our feeling is coming from thought?
– How is this different to what people like Eckart Tolle and Byron Katie are saying (if at all)?
Jørgen and I decided to have an in-depth, no-holds-barred conversation about the principles behind clarity, and the results were fantastic.
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To your increasing clarity,
Jamie
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Great discussion and congratulations to both for a classy "argument" in the best sense of that word. No defensiveness, no personal attacks, just respectful back and forth discussion.
Jorgen raised points I've struggled with myself in trying to understand the three principles. I've always questioned the validity of "we live entirely in the experience of our thinking" and my doubts were reinforced by the reference to Dawkin's TED talk about how each of us lives in a world dictated by the kind of creature we are. We didn't choose how our brains evolved – any more than insects did). It didn't happen through "thought" – it happened "outside in", as an interplay of the external world with the patterns of information stored in our genes. Our brains and hence our thought constructs evolved in lock step with our physical and social world, and are as much a manifestation of the external world as clouds or grass or galaxies. Actually, it took "thought" (in the classic sense of the word "thought" i.e. "conscious and intentional cognition" – not the 3P sense of "all mental activity that we are in some sense aware of") to break free of our naturally "outside in" thought.
The frequent and very good advice given by three principles teachers to "realize that you live entirely in the experience of your thinking, not in the external world" is an invitation to have a thought. This thought allows us to be aware of (to "think" of) the distortion, deletion, limitations of our minds (all well documented and systematic processes of humand minds as created "out there" by the universe).
Of course depending on semantics it is also logically true to say that we live entirely in our thinking. How could it be otherwise? The brain manifests consciousness of experience – at a physical level. It's logically nonsensical to talk of "direct experience" that bypasses the brain unless we were that experience i.e. unless we were God.
I sound like a doubter and I am but I'm also a huge fan. I love Jamie Smart and Michael Neil's stuff. I've listened to Clarity several times. But I see 3P as a really nifty "reframing device" (i.e. in the form of its three simple principles and invitation to have the thought "realize you live entirely in your thinking") as a quick and effective reminder of how much control we can have over how we see things and what we see at all.
I feel it would be completely possible to create your own little world while under hypnosis, it's a great tool that can help you achieve pretty much anything you want.
great, it will improv you skills , really it’s a good tool that will help you a lot in the futur.