"Gentle Spirit" gentledude_2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Dan Scorpio" Dan.Scorpio@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Hypnotica" notmyemail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > if you are tracking non verbal movements you can watch a "vcr taped"
> > > seminar someone is conducting on fast forward. After a while you may
> > > begin to see patterns that that person has. It is limited to visual
> > > movement patterns though.
> > >
> > >
> > Excellent idea - and you could extend it into areas other than
seminars
> > (eg by making your own videos). Don't do it on movie/drama though
> > where the behaviours are contrived.
> >
> > If you've ever tried to 'mirror' anybody, you'll have noticed that you
> > soon pick up a very large number of their patterns of kinesthetic
quirks
> > and traits
>
> HYpnotica and Dan
>
> Excellent points, have tried capturing peoples pattersn through
> mirroring and DTI,
>
> have not tried the watching the tape in fast motion, almost sounds
> speed reading :-), what i am curious about is how do you track the
> syntax of thier language... i think this exposes the key to the
> strutcure of their thinking
>
>
The syntax in any given language is a common, so you can track
your own syntax if you really want to understand it (but you already
do since you use it all the time...)
What varies relates to the content: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
Fundamental to all of it sits the noun; you can create a pastiche of nouns
and (if they are pictograms or visual images) pretty well take in at a
glance
the essence of what goes on - as if in a still photograph - but your take
may
be one of many & thus ambiguous. Providing the images with motion
(=process
in the form of verb) will give a far better take - but remember tis only
limited
& the broader context could cause ambiguity depending how 'close up' you
are. The 'content' of our linguistic patterns at any given time reflects
our
conscious mind at that time - the unconscious being the currently
non-energised
somatic momentum of the entire content.
As an aside, one uses the abstraction of noun/verb in writing simple
metaphor
(you chuck the adverbs and adjectives in at a later point such as to spice
up
you can use adjective/adverb as metaphor, but that's another story) such
that
you can work with a basic abstract syntactical frame and cross map
(or just map even) object and process across families of metaphors.
Example (of map):
X 1 Y and 2.
When A 3 Y then A 4.
B 5 X and 6.
X 4.
now subsitute:
X = the man or George or the fairy or the announcer, etc, etc.
Y = the dog or Susan or a car or computer etc, etc.
A= the police or the cat or the crowd or Harry, etc, etc.
B= the judge or King Kong or the wizard or the woman, etc, etc.
1= laughed at or saw or walked up to or smiled at, etc, etc.
2= smiled, scowled, broke wind, yelled out...
3= told, caught, informed, asked, fought, drugged...
4= wondered, danced, dreamed, sat down, woke up...
5= killed, fed, made love to, pointed at, sat on, walked past...
6= said nothing, knelt down, fell over, stood up, coughed, cursed
the announcer smiled at Susan and broke wind.
When the police told Susan then Susan danced.
King Kong made love to the announcer and said nothing.
the announcer danced
is metaphorically identical to:
the man smiled at the dog and broke wind.
When the crowd told the dog then the dog danced.
the wizard made love to the man and said nothing.
the man danced
and (at a deeper, very subliminal level)
the fairy walked up to Susan and yelled out.
When Harry fought the dog then Harry woke up.
the judge killed the fairy and said nothing.
the fairy woke up
These are very small examples, but they indicate the principles.
Using (say) five basic types of abstract sentence construction one
can write huge families of metaphors (you would obviously 'go in'
by hand after the basic transformation processes and tidy up with
pronouns, add suitable adverbs and adjectives etc.)
You can also work the same process on existing pieces with a bit
of word processor magic, indeed rather tha attempting to work with
pure abstracted syntax as indicated above, it's a lot easier to write
one member of the particular metaphor family you are looking at
(eg. little Johnny pisses in bed/listens to the doc/learns how to awake
& get to the loo in time as the base form then metamorphose if you
are looking for a therapeutic form) and then transforming that as
required.
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