Language moves your mind.

You can listen for language and use language to

• Gain awareness of your model of the world

• Gain a subjective awareness of another person’s model of the world

• Define your model of the world

• Subjectively define another person’s model of their world

• Move around in your model of the world

• Guide your Internal Representations (IRs) for optimum outcomes

• Guide another person’s IRs to assist them to gain optimum outcomes

• Effect change at the conscious level

• Effect change at the subconscious level

At all times, it is important to be aware of the power of the words you are using.

Use your words with a purpose, with volition, toward a specific intention.

In other words, think about what results you would like to have with the words you use.

Everything begins with a thought.

That thought relies on the language you use for its implementation.

Your words are then formed into sentence structures which are evident in your Language Patterns.

Therefore, your Language Patterns are made up of

• Words, and

• Sentence structures

AND these are indicators of your

• Thought patterns

• Values

• Belief systems

• Habits

• Attitudes

• And so on

Language Patterns are an extremely powerful tool to create change work in yourself and others, both internally and externally.

We use words when we want to speak in abstract concepts, abstractions, or in specific concepts, specificity.

Abstraction invites a trance-like state, whereas specificity invites a more conscious state.

Therefore, words can be used to chunk up from specific concepts to abstract concepts.

For example, let’s start with the word ‘seminar’:

1. Ground level: seminar

2. Chunk one level up: skills

3. Chunk to the next level up: learning

4. Chunk to the next level up: meaning of life

5. Chunk to the next level up: universe

6. Chunk one level higher: spirituality

There can be other levels within the ones listed.

With each level that was chunked up, the target word became more and more abstract.

In a negotiation or discussion, abstraction means that there will be less conflict or contradiction to what is said, for example, no one would disagree if someone said that we need more equity of living conditions in the world.

We would all agree to that, wouldn’t we?  We would in a trancelike manner, nod our heads.

But, if we then went into specifics of how this could be achieved, there would be grounds for disagreement if, for example a solution were suggested that would be at the expense of another group of people.

Thus, words need to be chunked down from abstract to specific to actually implement something.

It’s a type of concept similar to looking at the big picture first and then breaking that big picture down into workable smaller units, but it needs to be much more precise, and we need to be cognizant of the language we use.