This seemed to me to be the main message - one well worth noting and
entertaining - and which likely is already forgotten as we went in, quite rightly by
the way, to question the source on the NLPism about 7 plus or minus two which
followed. In this is an object lesson: it pays to check sources and to have
sources for these great truths which pass around as things which "everyone
knows." There is a great deal of folklore passed around in the fields of self-help
and human enhancement. This particular NLPism is most probably true, btw,
but true only for linear conscious focused mental processing. Plentygoes on
outside of where we have our conscious attention focused. Demonstration: hold
your index finger out at arms' length distance and fixate your eyes on it. The
finger at that distance is about the width of your visual attention, and also
a good metaphor for the width of your conscious attention. Without moving
your eyes from your finger, notice how much more of the space around you you are
also seeing and even making sense of. The behaviorists, not only Skinner but
all the way back to Watson, demonstrated that information received from
outside conscious focus affects us as much if not more than does information
consciously received and taken into account. ...win
In a message dated 5/24/2007 10:28:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
jesse6895%40yahoo.com">jesse6895
yahoo.com writes:
> Understanding through imagination would be the same as you suggest... to
> understand in many different ways as you can.
> Since imagination functions without strict conscious direction, every
> instance orientating attention towards a source of external stimuli would cause a
> landscape of interconnecting relationships regarding conceptualization,
> essentially disparate similarities brought closer in relation and subsequently
> mapping an understanding.
>
> Exploring the seamless capabilities of our imagination, to me at least,
> seems to be the greater extent of understanding, from which there is much to be
> learned in developmental ways of harnessing as skills of manual manipulation,
> or rather conscious control that decides upon the moment to allow our
> imaginitive insights to reveal their fleeting but processed gifts of enlightenment.
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