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From: ganetauk
Date: Sun Feb 17, 2002 7:20pm
Subject: T (technique) MILTON MODEL - PART 2
The Milton Model PART 2
The linguistic
patterns of the Milton Model are divided into three
phases:
1.Pacing the person's experience and reality and leading
into an altered state.
2.Distracting the
conscious mind.
3.Accessing unconscious
resources.
1.Pacing the person's experience and reality and leading
into an altered state.
The easiest way to pace
is to describe the person's ongoing sensory
experience, what they are hearing, seeing and feeling. You
describe what has to be there.
You portray everything
in artfully vague terms with Meta Model patterns to
reflect the person's experience. As you do so, you start
to lead by making suggestions to draw the person's
attention inwards to their internal experience so they
enter trance more fully. Use a soft tonality that does
not shock the person out of a peaceful relaxed state,
and it also helps to talk in the rhythm of the
person's breathing.
Example:
'As you sit there…
comfortably in the chair…and as you see the play of light on
the wall… and listening to my voice… you can let
yourself relax more…while you begin to
wonder…'
Begin by pacing the client's sensory experience by
saying what they are experiencing and then lead by
simple cause effect patterns into a more relaxed state
leading to trance.
The pacing is done linguistically
by using transitions. Notice the words such as
'and', 'while, and 'as'. They link the thoughts smoothly
one with another. The smooth linking of words helps
the smooth uninterrupted sensory experience. By
linking one thought with another they also imply a weak
cause effect, one leads to the other and so one is the
cause of the other.
You can suggest stronger cause
and effect patterns that lead into trance with words
that imply time like, 'when', 'during', 'before' and
'since.'
Example:
'Before you go into a relaxed state, and as you become
more and more comfortable, just settle down in your
chair and begin to think of something that you would
like to learn more about…and when you are
ready…'
2. Distracting the conscious mind
The second
phase of the Milton Model uses complex multilayered and
ambiguous language to engage the conscious mind in a
transderivational search. There are a number of patterns that
accomplish this.
Phonological Ambiguity
When you
use different words that sound the
same.
Example:
'Here, hear my words and as you mind begins to
wander/wander…'
Other examples are:
In security /
insecurity
Right / rite / write
And of course the favourite
sales phonological ambiguity: 'Buy / by now, you should
know what you want…'
Syntactical ambiguity
A word is used and the context does not make it
clear what its function is. This form of ambiguity
usually consists of a verb plus 'ing' so it could be an
adjective as well as a verb.
Examples:
'Challenging
Meta Model patterns…'
'Fascinating people all
around you…'
Scope ambiguity
Where it is not
clear how much of a sentence is referred to by one of
its clauses.
Examples:
'Speaking to you as an
intelligent person…' (Who is the intelligent
person?)
'Young men and women…' (Are the men or the women young?
Or both?)
'Customers who think our waiters are
rude should speak to the
manager...'
Punctuation ambiguity
These are created by merging two
separate sentences into one can spend a lot of time trying
to figure them out in the real world you probably
wouldn't notice them.
Another example:
'There are a
lot of things I don't know if you can learn this
today…'
