Deputy Dawg Days!
I recently had a client that wanted to change her self-esteem. Since I have never seen a self-esteem I had to figure out exactly what she was talking about before I could determine whether or not we could change it. Self-esteem falls into the category of metaphysical beasties that are actually a collection of actions that we try to abbreviate into a thing in order to make it easier to talk about. My test of true thingness is whether or not the alleged thing can be sliced into my weekly pot of gumbo. I suspected her ‘self-esteem’ failed my gumbo test. After very few minutes of conversation I found that was indeed the case. Her self-esteem was a conversational convenience, but therapeutically a major inconvenience. She had a bucket full of habitual thoughts that she would think about herself, most of which seemed uncomplimentary. By linguistically freezing that bucket of thinking (actions) into a frozen ice sculpture thing called self-esteem she made a delightful table decoration that was very good at resisting change. Actions are almost always easier to change than things. In NLP lingo this process of de-animating a verb into a...
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