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Language: linguistic induction

The power of well used words

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...

See Objectives and Decison: Dreamer's induction for an example of a related article.

V. V. Vilela

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