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1 " When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. "
― Milton H. Erickson
2 " I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way... "
3 " Life's difficulties are merely necessary roughage. "
4 " Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change. "
5 " You can teach a child the importance of pain by your behavior. You can also teach as child the importance of no pain by your behavior. "
6 " Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy." Milton Erickson "
7 " Change will lead to insight more often than insight will lead to change. "
8 " It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do. "
9 " You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn. "
10 " One's appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual. "
11 " I have no intention of dying. In fact, that will be the last thing I do! "
12 " Until you are willing to be confused about what you already know, what you know will never grow bigger, better, or more useful. "
13 " you say the right thing at the right moment. But you have no business knowing it ahead of time because as surely as you know it consciously, you start to improve on it and ruin it. "
― Milton H. Erickson ,
14 " In a different room, but comparable to the first, subjects were met individually, and it was explained that they were to seat themselves comfortably with their hands in their lap in a chair before a writing table on which was a pad of paper and a pencil. They were to look continuously at the pencil until their hand picked it up and started to write involuntarily. They were to concentrate secondarily on the lifting of the hand and primarily on seeing the pencil begin to write, and to do nothing more. "
15 " Trance helps depotentiate our old programs and gives us an opportunity to learn something new. The only reason why we cannot produce an anesthesia at will, for example, is because we don’t know how to give up our habitual generalized reality orientation that emphasizes the importance of pain and gives it primacy in consciousness. But if we allowed young children to experiment with their sensory perceptual processes in a fun way, they might easily develop skills with anaesthesia that could be very useful when they needed it. This would be an interesting piece of research, indeed. "
