MBL Deck 3 Flashcards

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See _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Hear _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Feel _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Notice _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Sense _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Consider _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Think about _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Remember _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Experience _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Discover _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Focus on _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Appreciate _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Pay attention to _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Recall _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Tune into _______________

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Switch perceptions by switching to another sense. You can cycle through the 3 main senses (sight, sound & touch), sometime the 2 minor senses (taste & smell) are appropriate too. On top of these, you have self talk, memories, thought, pure awareness and imagination.

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Who are you _______________

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Tense: The simple present
Effect: The experience is brought to life now. The person is associated. The experience is completed, permanent and unchanging – so has more reality.

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Where are you being _______________

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Tense: The present continuous
Effect: The experience is more immediate. The person is even more associated. The experience is fleeting, so might end any time. It is more fragile so less real.

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When were you _______________

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Tense: The simple past
Effect: The experience is not fully experienced so it’s mildly dissociated. The experience was completed, so has stronger reality. It allows for just one experience at a time.

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How were you being _______________

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Tense: The past continuous
Effect: Mild dissociation. Allows for several experiences to co-exist. It’s fleeting, so can end any time. The experience may not have been completed. Slightly less “real”.

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What have you been _______________

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Tense: The simple perfect
Effect: Emphasizes the effect. The experience is completed and probably over now, but it probably still influences the present somehow. Single experience. More dissociated

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Who have you been being _______________

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Tense: The perfect continuous
Effect: The experience is more fleeting, so open to change. The experience was recent (usually runs up to the present) and is still influencing the now. Less dissociated than simple perfect.

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Where had you been _______________

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Tense: The simple pluperfect (past perfect)
Effect: Moves things further back in time. The experience is completed (so less likely to be changed.) Largest amount of dissociation (for time.)

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When had you been being _______________

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Tense: The pluperfect (past perfect) continuous
Effect: Moves things further back in time. Experience is fleeting (so open to change.) A lot of dissociation through time.Tense: The pluperfect (past perfect) continuous
Effect: Moves things further back in time. Experience is fleeting (so open to change.) A lot of dissociation through time.

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How will you be _______________

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Tense: The simple future
Effect: Future action that is completed (so hard to change.) Builds future memory. Slight dissociation. Implies a promise (I will do X.)

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How are you going to be _______________

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Tense: The simple future (variant)
Effect: Future action more open to change. Requires choice on part of subject. Builds a weaker future memory. Slight dissociation. Implies a plan or intention.

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What will you be being _______________

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Tense: The future continuous
Effect: The A fleeting experience in the future that is very flexible and open to change. Implies a specific time in the future, so useful for building solid future memories. Slightly associated.

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How are you going to be being _______________

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Tense: The future continuous (variant)
Effect: A fleeting experience in the future that is very flexible and open to change. Implies intention – i.e. a choice about the future. Useful for building solid future memories. Slightly associated.

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Who will you have been _______________

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Tense: The future perfect
Effect: A completed experience in the future (so hard to change.) Emphasis is on next event, so more likely to be accepted by presupposition, so good for future memories. Slightly associated

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Who are you going to have been _______________

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Tense: The future perfect (variant)
Effect: A completed experience in the future (so hard to change.) Allows you to look back from the future so cements a nearer future in by presupposition. Great for future memories. Slightly dissociated.

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Who will you have been being _______________

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Tense: The future perfect continuous
Effect: Fleeting action which actually suggests change. Sets the scene or atmosphere for something else to occur, so great for rich future memories. Allows for multiple, parallel experiences. Slightly associated.

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Where _______________

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Effect: Sends the mind to look for a location. Tends to find sensory experience (orienting in space). Makes an experience more real by indirectly rooting them into senses. Assists revivification. Example: Where were you when you felt so good?

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When _______________

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Effect: Sends the mind through time. Useful for regressions and gold mining (searching for resources in the past.) By changing tense, you can associate (present) or emphasize a dissociation (perfect & pluperfect tense). Example: When had you realized it had happened?

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How _______________

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Effect: Focuses the attention on details, especially about action. Indirectly focuses attention on feelings and emotions. (How are you; How were you being?) Lets you loosen a reality by subtly introducing a denominalization (How do you run = How are you running?)

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Why _______________

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Effect: This makes the mind rationalize (& so cement in) a new idea or reality. It’s one of the ways to nominalize an experience to make it eternal. CAUTION: do not ask “Why” about problems (why are you sad?), focus it on solution (why do you say you have changed?)

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Whether _______________

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Effect: Offers multiple realities, so creates future memories (whether you do X or Y). Most often a binary choice (this or that) follows it, so ideal for double binds. You can offer a bind through choices of experiences (I don’t know whether you will find it in your past or future.)

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What _______________

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Effect: Focuses the mind on objects and ideas in general. It is inductive – i.e. opens the mind – as it does not presuppose a limit to the possible answers. Example: What shall I choose to put in my future? – implies that I have many (maybe infinite) choices.

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Which _______________

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Effect: Focuses the mind on specific objects and ideas. It is deductive – i.e. focuses mind down onto one rather than many by offering only a binary choice, it can only be one or the other. Example: Which future should I choose? – implies I have only two futures to choose from.

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Who _______________

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Effect: This focuses on people (as a special form of object). It changes the start point of a mental maneuver, rather than the end point. It looks for the active (Who did that?). So sets the launch pad for an MBL voyage. Example: Who is the most courageous man you know?

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Whom _______________

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Effect: Rare form. Focuses on people (instead of objects). This time it changes the end point. It looks at the passive, the receiver of action. Can be used to empower by putting your subject in charge of the action: To whom would you like to express that feeling?

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By which means _______________

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Effect: This combines “How?” & “What?” It focuses on a specific part (what) of the action (how): the instrument (object or idea) that caused the result. It can activate resources & cause an indirect nominalization: By which means will you free yourself?? – Through Courage!!

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In what way _______________

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Effect: This is a specific form of “How?” It is less general that “How?”, focusing on a process or sequence of action steps. It automatically denominalizes concepts. It’s very useful for finding the mental steps (strategies) people use: In what way do you get yourself so mad?

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So what _______________

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Effect: This turns the mind towards the consequences or meaning of an event or experience. It’s useful for creating future memories (so what will happen now?), exploring negative beliefs or mindsets and to cement changes through rationalizations (So what does that mean?)

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Where _______________

from _______________

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Effect: This refocuses the mind on the source of something. It looks at beginnings. It can be used to explore or to alter the start point. When you change the start of something (it’s source) you change its ultimate effect: Where does all that you haven’t considered yet come from?

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Where _______________

to _______________

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Effect: This refocuses the mind to the end of a process or a future event. It changes the destination to alter the current path someone may be on. It can also be used to explore consequences and build future memories: Where are all those healing ideas leading you to?

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For what purpose _______________

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Effect: Most people should be asking this instead of “Why?” It explores motivation and intention behind behavior. This gives you leverage for change, especially if the intended and actual results are in conflict: For what purpose do you bite your nails (what does it do for you?)

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Negation (Not)

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Remember that the basis of ALL Mind-Bending Language is the idea of taking people’s awareness to where it was not. Negation allows you to create virtually infinitely more directions to send someone’s mind in beyond the sySTEM predicates.

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Implied Negation (But)

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You can create negations indirectly through words that have negation hidden inside their meaning. The word “but” means: forget whatever I just said, it does not apply anymore. It intensifies the power of the “not”. Example: You can go there, but you won’t like it.

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Tag Questions (Don’t You)

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Tag questions offer mild confusion by adding a negation (“not”) that can be taken either way. They can be offered colloquially: you can be happy can’t you? You can also emphasize the negation for a stronger, though less conversational, effect: you can be happy, can you not?

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Switch Sensory Channels

See, Hear, Feel

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When minds are stuck on an idea, they often get stuck in one or two of the senses – they see but don’t feel. They hear but don’t taste. When you turn their mind back to a sense that they have blanked out, a change will usually occur: As you feel X, what else are you seeing?

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Switch Referential Index

You, He, It

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We perceive things from limited points of view – most often, it’s our own. If you switch the point of view the meaning of everything changes. You can switch objects to subjects (you don’t like your foot? How does it feel about that?) It’s especially mind-bending with inanimate objects.

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Switch Locus of Perception

As you focus on your heart

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Awareness has a start & end point. When you focus on a book, the focus begins inside. But where? For most people, attention starts in the head, near the eyes. Moving the “place where you think/perceive” has a dramatic effect: focus on your stomach as you consider X.

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Switch Front to Back

What’s everything else

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Perception occurs only through contrast. So when we focus on something, we perceive it only through contrast to the background it stands out against. When you switch attention to the background and make that the foreground, perceptions radically change.

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Switch Meaning – Homophones & Oronyms

No pun in ten did

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Many words carry multiple meanings (bank, rose), other are spelled differently but sound the same (two, too). You can mind-bend someone by running with the wrong meaning: CI: I have an insecurity about that!… H: What’s it like to be in security about that?

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Mindbending Themes

Time to lighten up

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The unconscious works through puns. Often there is a theme that drives many problems. An overweight person may need to “lighten up” (become less serious) before they can “lighten up” (lose weight)! These themes carry a lot of weight for personal change.

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Switch (Reverse) Syntax

The tail wags the dog

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Most things only make sense in an order. Change the order and you change the meaning. The dog wags his tail is not The tail wags his dog. You can scramble the meaning of something by changing the order around. Jokes, puns & flirting works on this principle

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Storyboarding

What happens next

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Problems are often protected by a hazy cloud of confusion. To get through it, as the person to walk you through the problem from before the start till after it’s over (like a storyboard for a movie). Watch out for when they mentally blank out. Ask them to go back and do it again

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Maneuver 1: Open/Close Mind

All – v – Only

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Inductive language (all, every, totally) sends the mind to search for more possibilities – it opens the mind. Use it to get options. Deductive language (one, only single, especially) focuses the mind on specific examples – so closes it. Use this to get practical steps.

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Maneuver 2: Connect/Detach People

This – v – That

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Some words make experiences more personal or direct (this, my, here, inside, beneath) – they associate the person. Others create distance and remove them from direct experience (that, there, outside, beyond, above). NB: Some people do not respond the same way as others.

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Maneuver 3: Cement/Unstick Experiences

Love – v – Loving

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An abstraction (or nominalization) seems eternal and unchanging to the mind. It’s useful to cement in positive feelings or events (love, happiness). Problems (anger, grief) will need to be unstuck to make them fluid and allow the mind to change them.