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From: the_brownbomber
Date: Thu Feb 14, 2002 3:54pm
Subject: Guessing the letters method
There are two parts to the letter trick and it
will work much better on a
recipient rather than
external listeners as you will see. Firstly, he
creates
rapport by saying that she's guessing what he's thinking
rather than
the other way round. This has the effect
of removing resistance to being
'tricked' and
encourages the recipient to work towards a positive
outcome.
The second critical part is around her name Leandra -
he asks her quite
deliberately if her name is
LeanDra or LeannA, and then stresses that the
letter
he's thinking of is not 'L'. People's names are very
important to
them and resonate strongly, thus the D and
the A were already framed. The
rest is
simple...
susan
> I was listening carefully to the guessing the
letter trick, and I don't
know if this is coincidence
or intentional, but there were a lot of 'd'
and
't' sounds in the words he was speaking.
