From: martinher@urvax.urich.edu
Newsgroups: alt.hypnosis
Subject: Re: Can Intuition be taught/enhanced
Date: 1 Jan 93 20:53:49 GMT
Reply-To: martinher@urvax.urich.edu
Organization: University of Richmond

The articles below are an excellent (valuable) conversation about
the nature of hunches.  The ideas are very useful and I offer
a further enhancement to the basic 'self-induction' ththat Keith
provides.   This was given to me by one of the little known greats
of NLP, Don Aspomonte (spelling?) some years ago and he claimed
that he got it from John Grinder. (Not that it should matter to
you, but:  Credit where credit is due.)

In yourself:
Install the following anchor,  "There is A SINCE IN WHICH...".
This can be a homophone for:  "There is A SENSING WITCH....".

Only you will be aware of the significance.  This is a common
phrase which can be inserted almost anywhere in conversation
to request activation of the part of you responsible for such
observation and reporting of subtle clues both in the external
world and internally to hunches.  You are likely to apply this
phrase when considering disagreeing with another, as it is
a very polite way of saying "'but' there is an exception I
would like to make clear."  This is a very valuable time to
be fully aware of the reactions of others because many people
do not react as you might hope when you offer them a correction
or amplification, unless it is presented very respectfully.
Respect, generally requires you to be aware of the wishes and
possible internal states of the other person.

You can have it invoke Keith's entire induction for a part of
you tasked with this job or use a modification that is more
useful for you.  Now, if you have not been previously exposed
to the idea of setting up anchors within yourself this might
not seem to be a useful idea.  Or you may not already know
the meaning of the word 'anchor' as I am using it here.  In
this sense, you can think of an anchor as a trigger.  This
trigger will cause you to 'remember' to perform some action
or return to some state when you experience (hear, see, feel,
smell, etc.) the anchor.  So you may, if you wish, use the
phrase, "There is a sense in which..." to remind yourself that
you wish to pay particular attention to some part of your
experience.  This allows you to both consciously and unconsciously
use the the 'anchor' or 'trigger' in you own interactions with
others or when thinking about anything in private.
 
There is a sense in which you may find this very useful now or
you may wish to use this only when it is more important to you
to gain this benefit!  So if Keith offers you the metaphor of
an high quality VCR then I am offering you the remote control
complete with automatic recording and the buttons (triggers)
allowing you to use all of them effortlessly now.

Herb Martin
martinher@urvax.urich.edu

PS>  I would like to hear privately from those who understand
my ramblings fully.  How effective can they be and how can I
improve them?  Do they offer you anything of value?  

In article <Bzq49B.44s@fastrac.llnl.gov>, keg@strathspey.llnl.gov (Keith Grant) writes:
>
>In article <1992Dec21.205603.13725@atlastele.com>, sameer@atlastele.com writes:
>|> Hi,
>|> I wanted to get your opinions on how should one go about enhancing 
>|> intuition or "hunches". How does one charecterize hunches from 
>|> random thoughts. Where does "gut feel" come from. Can hypnosis be
>|> used to enhance these feelings.
>|> Thanks,
>
>I tend to view hunches as as conclusions drawn from a combination of experience
>and unconscious information in situations where the information of which I am
>conciously aware is insufficient to force a single conclusion or decision.
>We learn, of necessity, to not be consciously aware of much of the information
>with which we are constantly bombarded.  We also learn to combine much 
>information into digestible patterns.  For example, to be able to recognize
>happiness or anger on someone's face without being consciously aware of the
>details of facial positioning and movement.  
>
>Hunches can come from the congruence or incongruence of an observed/subject 
>person's modes of presentation.  Does the body positioning, movement, vocal 
>intonation, and verbal content all say the same thing or do they contradict?  
>Is the body language appropriate to the given context in the culture in which 
>it's occurring?  Is the tempo appropriate or is there a sense of being forced
>to a premature conclusion.  Is the person's total presentation consistent with
>their past behavior or are there subtle differences.
>
>I believe, partially from my own experience, that intuition can be enhanced
>by practicing conscious awareness.  If you want to be a better communicator,
>for example, pay attention to the nuances of how people around you are
>communicating with each other - the movements, tempo, intonation, and
>mutual pacing, and implied verbal messages the accompany the explicit verbal
>communication.  With practice, you can learn to unconsciously note these so
>that much more can be concsiously accessed as needed.  The other component
>is to be  aware of your feelings (comfort/discomfort), give credit to the
>totality of your experience, and to ask yourself what it is about that 
>specific situation or person that is leading to the feeling.  With practice, 
>it gets easier to obtain specific answers.
>
>The "gut feeling" is one of the ways you unconciously communicate your
>experience to your conscious mind.  Bandler and Grinder, in some of their
>books, use the phrase "kinesthetic verification".  I vaguely recall that it
>was in conjunction with the methodology of successful spellers being to picture
>a trial spelling with "kinesthetic verification" of its correctness.  This 
>also helps to weed out the spurious "random wanderings", although even those
>are worth noticing.
>
>Can hypnosis help?  I find it can be a help in enhancing my awareness of
>external events instead of my internal events (what Bandler and Grinder
>referred to as an "uptime trance" and Zen calls living in the moment) and 
>in accessing the details behind my hunches.  My abbreviated self-induction
>would go something like:
>
>There is something about this situation that I find disquieting although I'm
>not yet consciously aware of why (pacing my own experience).  I'm closing my
>eyes and sinking down into a state where I can picture, hear, and feel what I 
>need to become aware of (pacing and direction).  As I review what's been 
>occurring, very much like watching a movie, I can become aware of details 
>that I had previously overlooked - details that are important for me to be 
>aware of.  I can notice and highlight what exactly it was about this situation 
>that some part of me was uncomfortable with ,,, (from which point I have all 
>the options of still, slow-motion, accelerated motion, or replay available on
>a good VCR).
>
>With practice, the technique can become as fast and accurate as an instant
>replay for a sports event.  
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