Semantic Restructuring is the pursuit of enlightenment, enlivenment, empowerment through the creative re-arranging of the building blocks of meaning. For a better description, Start Here.
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I don't do my credibility any favors by citing hypnosis, it's true. but for better or for worse I am a believer. Hypnosis is not a panacea, but it's useful tool that has been part of my life since early childhood.
In the hypnosis literature there is a phenomenon called "Automatic Motion." As with many hypnotic phenomena this is something you can see from time to time on psychiatric wards, someone making a constant repeated motion. In the context of hypnosis there are at least two views of this phenomenon. The traditional view is that this is a phenomenon that can be elicited and is indicative of a certain level or depth of trance. The non-traditional, Ericksonian view (but don't let that phrasing trick you into the wrong conclusion that the Ericksonians are free from their own dogma and traditions) is that this phenomenon, like almost any other response can be indicative of trance but can also be used to induce, deepen, or simulate trance, depending on the skill of the hypnotist and the peculiar mental goings on of the client.
When I first worked through my very first exercise in "Awareness Through Movement" I thought, "Cool, 'Automatic Motion' applied in an officially non-hypnotic setting."
An axiom of the Bandler/Grinder view of hypnosis, one that I rather un-critically accepted based on its tight fit with my own experience, is that any alteration of one's state of mind can be utilized for "re-programming". My later reading of Erickson's works bolstered this general notion (nearly all Grinder and Bandler's best stuff comes either from Erickson, Bateson, or Hall.)
When the time came for me to remove myself from the N-LP fold (as much for esthetics of association as for any points of doctrine) I cast about for some metaphors of my own to describe some of the overlap between what I would file under Semantic Restructuring and the offical body of N-LP, and one of the things that came to mind was this vague notion that over hypnotic automatic motion, Feldenkrais "Awareness Through Movement", mantra work, mandala work, and Semantic Satiation are all of a piece, all related in that, through repitition, they create a violation of extant associational rule, allowing for new associational paths to take route.
Of course, having shot my mouth off in cogling I now need to spend at least a little time actually reading some of the Semantic Satiation reports I have found. But I doubt they will be entirely relevant to my thrust.
Part of my assumption is that the extant associational rules are basically arbitrary to begin with, even those of language, which are forced on us willy-nilly by the organisms who were here before us, but which nonetheless are entirely arbitrary. My favorite example is probably still run with its scores of "meanings." If ever there were an argument for the general arbitrariness of the relations between the sound clusters we call words and the varied sensory experiences those sound clusters can represent "run" runs at the head of the pack.
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