Healing and Hypnotherapy Special Mega Annual Issue 21 June 2017 | Page 49

a model which contains a sender, receiver, and feedback loop”. This intra personal communication seem to hold the key to the lock of shaping our destiny. Words are the most powerful agents which perform this complex task of communication. Hence, everything boils down to the “quality of the language” we use to communicate with our inner self known as subconscious mind. This seemingly simple but difficult process based on the “coordinates of communication” has given rise to umpteen number healing modalities in the modern world. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of them which has gained wide popularity in the corporate circles due to its simple brain teasing communication techniques which are used to programme our mind through linguistic patterns. Once followed, this “linguistic pattern” carves the way through the secrets of the potential of human subconscious mind. It is said that “the secret of NLP success is not the content but the delivery”. The dialogue delivery essentially comprises of the instructions served to the person (patient) in a carefully crafted manner of words and a few other related modalities like tone, pitch, pace, pauses etc. This holy nexus of word modalities create a resonating effect on the person’s mind. The dialogue delivery through words in NLP has mutated into 20-25 processes which range from deleting the past traumatic memories to the present life management and the future projection. This “three in one” (reshaping past, present and future) effect has the words as essential founding elements. It is unfortunate that our students in the schools and colleges have been taught clumsily by “synonyms” i.e. words having the same meanings. It is said that “No two words having the same meaning”. The word “admonish” and “scold” don’t have the same meaning whereas they find the place as synonyms in the thesaurus. Admonish stands for a “caution or disapproval” whereas scold stands for “disapprove severely”. The cognitive drill therapy ( a verbal therapy used to treat phobia, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder) is essentially a word game. This therapy, while taking the past history of the patient, arrives at finding some stimuli which when provoked through verbalization, result into manifestations of BMR (body mind reactions). Similarly, rapport building in the negotiations and communication can be enhanced by the right usage of empathising words and “skilful repetition of the client’s words” in one’s own language is shown to have remarkable effect on the outcome of the communication process as rapport establishing. The