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You can trust the unconscious.
Milton H. Erickson / Psychiatrist
Consciousness
Unconscious
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A goal without a date is just a dream.
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Dream
Goal
Just A Dream
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You can pretend anything and master it.
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Funny
Masters
Motivation
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Trance is a natural everyday experience.
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Everyday
Natural
Trance
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You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.
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Benches
Piano
Swim
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What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
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Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
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Confusion
Enlightenment
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Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage.
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Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.
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Firsts
Matter
Tipping
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You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.
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Insult
Insults You
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The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
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Conscious
Ego
Unconscious
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Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
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Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.
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Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
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Chairs
Shut Up
Silence
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Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.
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Humans
Known
Littles
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People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.
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Past
People
Therapy
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We always translate the other person's language into our own language.
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Language
Persons
Translate
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I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
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Dying
Lasts
Positivity
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Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
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Cognitive Therapy
Patient
Way
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How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?
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Appreciation
Smile
Appreciate
Mind
Unconscious
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Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
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Change
Insight
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The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
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Mind
Unconscious
Way
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Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.
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Happiness
Happy
Inspirational
You Make Me Happy
Pain
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The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
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Behavior
Important
Motivation
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I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.
Milton H. Erickson / Psychiatrist
Confidence
Smile
Looks
Speak
Way
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You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.
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Cards
Determine
Play
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When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.
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Imperfect
Knows
Wanted
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You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
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Climate
Hypnosis
Mean
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People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.
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Creative
Great Men
People
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Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful.
Milton H. Erickson / Psychiatrist
Learning
Bigger Better
Confused
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As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.
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Dignity
Hell
World
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There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
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Incomplete
Should
Unfinished
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Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
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Long
Past
Understanding
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Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.
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Dream
Communication
Thinking
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The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.
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Adults
Mind
Simple
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Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.
Milton H. Erickson / Psychiatrist
People
Self
Too Much
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Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
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Bed
Needs
Unique
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Every person's map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way... So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.
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People
Two
Unique
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Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
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Flower
Giving
Knowing
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The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.
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Book
Knowing
Reading
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You see, we don't know what our goals are. We learn our goals only in the process of getting there. "I don't know what I'm building but I'm going to enjoy building it and when I get through building it I'll know what it is." In doing psychotherapy you impress this upon patients. You don't know what a baby is going to become. Therefore, you take good care of it until it becomes what it will.
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Baby
Goal
Waiting
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