Friday, April 4, 2008

Foreground Background Switch

I learned the NLP foreground back ground switch from John Overdurf.

It could be described as a particular kind of swish pattern. We begin by 'deductively' noticing exactly what we are focusing on in a particular problem situation, for example in a personal interaction it might be the other person's eyes.

We then 'inductively' notice everything in the background of the picture, then rapidly move the background into the foreground, as the foreground rushes into the background.

This reduces the significance of the thing that we had been paying attention to when we had the problem, and by doing so reduces the problem to its real significance.

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