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