Man's Right To Know--The Story of Wilhelm Reich

The rubber hand illusion

Erickson videos

Do you think you will enjoy watching these videos of Milton Erickson and how much do you think you will learn from them?

Mmmm

I'm not a gustatory person at all, and I'm no fan of Rachel Ray's cutesy shtick--but as somebody interested in gesture and non-verbal forms of communication, I could watch stuff like this all day:



It's fascinating how much information there is in each sound that Ms. Ray makes. Each "mmmm" is the same and yet subtly different. There's the 'Better than I expected' mmm; the 'I'm having an orgasm' mmmmmm; the 'just the ticket' mmmmm; the 'WOW' mmmmmm; the 'good but not great' mmmmmmm; the hot and spicy mmmmmm; the mmmmmmm for sweets; the thirst quencher mmmmmmm; the comforted mmmmmm; and probably many more.

What are some of the ones you heard? Do you make sounds and gestures like this when you eat?

5 Freedoms

A friend tonight asked me for a favor. It wasn't a big deal, just to return something to someone, but because of extenuating circumstances I didn't feel comfortable carrying out the task. So I said no. I'd be glad to do other favors for him, but not this particular thing. And I won't lose any sleep about it either.

Anyway, it put me in mind of Virginia Satir's list of the Five Freedoms:

The freedom to see and hear what is here, instead of
what should be, was, or will be.

The freedom to say what you feel and think, instead of
what you should.

The freedom to feel what you feel, instead of
what you ought.

The freedom to ask for what you want, instead of
always waiting for permission.

The freedom to take risks in your own behalf, instead of
choosing to be only "secure" and not rocking the boat.

Here's a rare clip I found on youtube of Virginia doing her thing:

Australian NLP

Google video has this
short (20 minute) video introduction to an Australian NLP Practitioner training. Nice introductory overview.