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Damon here from NLP Gym. NLP techniques the fourth perceptual position or
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done any NLP training at the very base level and you learn some practitioner
practitioner training is the perceptual positions first position second position
and third position it's easy to remember because it's very much like a story or
narrative you have one of three ways of telling a story different types of Merit
narrators you have first position where it's the main character in the story who
is telling their own story about what's happening and then their second position
which is somebody who's not the main character's story but they're a
character in the story nonetheless and they could be any character in the story
and they're telling the story from their perspective about the hero of the story
then there's the third position which is sort of like the third person omniscient
it's somebody who's not in the story not a character in the story was telling a
story from an objective perspective we use perceptual positions and NLP to gain
understanding and wisdom
and even to overcome obstacles and conflicts and also to model people so
what you can do it you can go second position with someone who you admire
someone who maybe you've never even met before historical figure to get an
understanding of what with perspective they were coming from continued to
hopefully get a feeling of what they embody so for so first position would be
me standing here looking through my own eyes hearing through my own ears
experiencing everything around me as I'm standing here and if i had a memory that
I would with first position and that means i would be in that memory as if I
were experiencing it as it was happening rather than stepping back and watching
myself in the memory like watching a movie of myself i would be first
position would be in the movie i'm in there watching things from my
perspective second position is when I say for the camera that i'm talking to
is if I took the perspective of the camera and imagine myself standing there
looking back at myself that I would be taking second position with the camera
but normally we don't do that with objects which you can
Judy DeLozier one of my mentors likes to go second position with rocks
and trees and that sort of thing
what you normally think of is doing second position with another person that
could be second position with a person you're having a conflict with you drop
into their body and you look back at yourself from their perspective and
suddenly you have a new perspective you have more wisdom you have new
information here and then you can go third position which means you'll be a
neutral observer like a fly-on-the-wall observing your interaction with the
other person and then you gain information there and then you take
information from all these perceptual positions and take it back to your first
position and upgrade the information there there's a fourth position now some
people don't agree with that though some there are some LP trainers I think that
it's nonsense i like the fourth position and I'll explain why in a minute after i
explained what the fourth position is there is something called systemic
systemic NLP and it's where you treat everything as a system i'm a system this
relationship I have with this camera right now is another system so there
were two systems that make up one system if you're interacting with someone that
person is a system i'm a system us our interaction becomes a bigger system the
space in between becomes another system that holds us and if you add any more
people those are more systems and then we could include them as one big system
the fourth position is the system itself it's all the parts of the system it's
all the systems within the greater system
so you can take the perspective of being your first position the second position
and the third the third position which is the neutral position the fourth
position is all three of those i like to think of it as the space between all of
them and the space within and the space without that holds all that this
cultivates genius when you're able to take information from these different
perspectives and it takes some practice it takes some working with this to fully
understand that it's hard to really explain especially fourth position was
very difficult one to actually explain it's better to experience it you can
also use this to i like to use it because i had for it before I got a
gentle p I was really into nonduality and non-duality takes the approach that
you are the awareness of everything you're not the thing so you're not your
body you're not your mind you are the awareness of your mind and your body and
therefore you kind of a kind of all one with everything in that sense i like to
think a fourth position is very much like that and if you're dealing with say
negative feelings are you dealing with really intense feelings that are that
are hard to manage think of yourself as not being a person who's managing these
difficult feelings think of yourself as the space in which these feelings are
coming up and that will give you some extra space to sort of manage the
feelings you don't want to block the feelings out you don't want to ignore
them
you don't want to pretend they don't exist
take the perspective of you are the space in which the feelings are coming
are rising and falling away and and you'll be amazed that instantly you feel
like you can breathe you can feel more at ease with it so see what happens when
you think of yourself as the space in between everything
see what happens when you think of being the space in between your relationships
are the space that's holding those relationships and sometimes we talk
about that
NLP is being holding the space for someone so it's like you're not you're
not necessarily interacting or guiding them are telling them what to do but
you're providing the space in which they can do what they need to do facilitate
their transformation or overcoming whatever it is they're dealing with and
sometimes it just takes being there for someone and holding that space and not
really saying anything at all and that's what we refer to as holding the space so
think of becoming like space and that makes it much easier to take on the
fourth position and to be all the components of a system now not everybody
in every trainer will explain it that way that's just the way that i like to
think of it that doesn't work for you
that's fine use it use another metaphor that does work for you check out our
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