Inductions are texts to be
read slowly and leisurely, while doing what is being asked. It can be
still better to record it on tape or to ask someone to read it with a
soft background music and a soft voice, while you just relax and let
yourself be leaded. This way you can learn and harvest new options.
The force of induction
comes from the fact that words have the potential to activate some
internal representations and not others; we have to understand each word
and expression! If someone tells you "I love you", to understand it you
have necessarily to access and to internally activate love
representations, that is, images, sounds and feelings that constitute
the meaning of love to you. If the person is in a receptive state
and with adequate words, this can provoke changes and introduce new
options.
In fact, every communication
is an induction, and language is a particular case of this. If you say
"I love you!" to anybody, you will change what the person thinks and
feels in the next few moments, either he or she agrees or not! And even
your silence can be interpreted and make a difference. Note how it is
different to say, about the same situation: "I got a problem" or "I have
an opportunity of improvement" or even in the form of a question: "How
can I take some benefit of this situation?" Your thinking goes different
directions in each case. By the same reasons, and as thinking has a
dimension of self-communication (you can be conscious of what you are
thinking about), a thought may be also an induction, a self-induction:
you may respond to them.
Music and voice tone during
the induction contribute to the person that is listening to enter an
appropriate state. Imagine for a moment how it would be to stay in a
comfortable position… hearing positive and new-options-provoking words…
from someone whose voice you like… in a very pleasant voice tone...
V. V. Vilela