Yes it sounds like the focus is on content and exposing this enables the rewiring. This seems reductionistic and mechanistic with linear concepts of causality....
Hi John, IME I can work in silence with someone for months but sometimes the right question at the right time will release a stuckness they have and seems to...
BTW Mark Epstein (buddhist psychologist, and psychiatrist I believe) has mentioned that often he just sits and meditates with clients. that 'just sitting' is...
But then in spiritual practises, words/symbols/concepts are used to undo other words/symbols/concepts. are you not 'down' with that idea? Meg ... emotions. ......
How I often read is to open any book in the house in any spot and just read whatever it opens to. Coincidently I just opened to this. Now a modern trend in...
One more and that's it. A question John. Do you think all therapists can do this successfully? not interfere? not talk? even with zin? I suspect maybe no ,...
Hi Meg, I am not critical of talking or any other form of communication. After all communication is essential to interconnectivity and the functioning of...
Feedback at its best. Often we run form immediate experience of emotions or become absorbed into the dynamic and overwhelmed by them. The difficulty it seems...
Again I think this depends on context and working within the NDS paradigm has enabled me to use previously learnt strategies very differently. Certain images,...
We have to communicate and interact one way or another and I do not advocate non use of this as a particular war of helping others. I think that any therapist...
Thank you very much for taking the time to explain all of this to me. So it was the idea that the therapist is taking responsibility for the change and believe...
John, If you get the time, can you expand on this part a bit? Can you give me some examples of words you would use and words you would not? can you explain how...
Sometimes we are so absorbed that we do need assistance or information from another for change and it is good to recognize this when it is so. A need for...
The classical paradigm uses bivalent logic. It is this or it is that, and it cannot be both – particularly at the same time. NDS utilizes multivalent logic....
I thoroughly enjoyed your description of presence. I understand that NDS is difficult to language but I think this was very clear and understandable. thank you...
I'm way far behind in the discussion, but thought I would pipe up. I have read the book and I had two primary reactions: 1) It's a fabulous tool to help people...
Karen et al: I've been watching this thread with interest as well and thought this might be a good time to post just a few quick thoughts. 1. I've only seen...
Val et al- I had trouble inserting my thoughts into your reply - sorry if this gets confusing! Val->The challenge in the phrase "re-wiring" is that it also...
Hi Karen, I have also used that book quite a lot to help clients ditch the idea that I have a physical injury to my brain so therefor I am permanently ...
Karen, Yes, helping people transition from where they are to other perspectives is important AND I would say it's also important to keep in mind the challenges...
Fractals are a feature of NDS and therefore nature. Self similarity and scale dependant measurement amongst other aspects are explained in this TED talk by a...
Val, I agree with the comments you are making below about the focus on the wiring and how this reinforces duality and materialist view of "the physical rules"....
I am also having difficulty understanding "returning to presence" and it's significance. I understood and agreed with your description of the river John. For...
Hi Meg, I think this is a language thing and I have been wondering why it is so hard for us to communicate these concepts. Then it occurred to me that...
How about this, we take all the words, take away their boundaries and there you have it, presence LOL.everything and nothing. how can words describe something...
Val: I would say that several "languages" already exist. Ancient Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan -- to name a few -- have very good ways of expressing this. The...
John et al: Zhuangzi (Chang Tzu) wrote: "The reason for a fish-trap is the fish. When the fish is caught the trap may be ignored. The reason for the rabbit...
Scientific American Mind - November 5, 2008 Five Ways Brain Scans Mislead Us Colorful scans have lulled us into an oversimplified conception of the brain as a...
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