The Essential Qualities of an NLP Practitioner

Interesting video. Your comment on the false polarity created by talking about positive and negative staes helped to crystalise an idea I’ve been thinking about for some time about the idea of the conscious and unconscious mind. Again this is a distinction which has some value, but I think it also can cause confusion ( I find myself having to explain that whe I say unconscious I don’t mean unconscious in the way Freud meant it), and the idea of two seprate minds may be unhelpful. What fits better with my experience is that there are ‘things’ ideas, images, sounds, feelings, etc which I am more or less conscious of in certain states, at certain times in diffferent contexts. Things which I may be more or less conscious of at different times, some of which I may be able to bring into or out of conscious awareness more or less easily. It’s much more fluid than the conscious/unconconscious distinction might suggest, and maybe the idea of flowing between more or less conscious states could be productive…..