Post Written By Eugene Morgan Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.― Milton H. Erickson Milton Erickson is saying here in the above quote is that we have the power to create joy. Pain reminds us that we’re still alive and that we can feel. Pain is a mechanism […]
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Complete Things
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Milton Erickson talks about completing things. To gain confidence in ourselves we need to complete things that we set ourselves to do. If we don’t complete things, then we have convinced ourselves that we can’t do the task, which means that we have strengthened the belief, “I can’t do this […]
Drop The Problem
Post Written By Eugene Morgan This very moment you can drop all problems because they are your creation. Osho Only if we learn this concept in the quote above, then maybe we would be a lot better off. Milton Erickson use to say that we all have good luck and bad luck. We don’t have […]
Experiencing The New
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Experiencing something new is the best way to make a change. Some things are unchanging unless we experience something that will help us change. To experience something means actually doing something. An experience can help expand our minds so we can see that there are more choices available. When we […]
Surprise, Shock, and Affirmations
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Being surprise is a temporary moment when our minds open up and want to grab hold of something meaningful before the moment of surprise disappears. Milton Erickson uses shock and surprise with his students and his subjects to get them out of rigid mind sets. His subject is caught off […]
A Community of Potentials
Written By Eugene Morgan We are a community of people, which means, by our nature we are social creatures. We cannot survive alone, we need one another to function. Milton Erickson often mentions about human potential. We don’t know how far our potentials will take us when we work together. We’re still in its infancy […]
How Resistant Are We?
Written by Eugene Morgan How resistant are we for change? When we’re presented with new ideas or new changes, we find ourselves resisting them. Resistance can be a good thing but not so good a thing, depending on the context of the situation. If someone is trying to indoctrinate us into a belief system that […]
What Do You See
Written by Eugene Morgan When we look at ourselves in the mirror, most of us will find something we dislike about ourselves. We have a certain image in our minds of how we should look. Body image was one of the major themes in Milton Erickson’s work. He wanted to know just how his subjects […]
Build on Your Strengths
Written by Eugene Morgan Milton Erickson uses anything and everything that a person brings to the office. Whenever someone walks in Erickson’s office, Erickson would always look for something in that person to use to aid change. What someone saw as a liability, Erickson saw as an asset that’s useful to aid change. Erickson never stops […]
Curiosity Saves The Cat
Written by Eugene Morgan Milton Erickson uses curiosity as a carrot stick to lure the conscious mind away. His goal is to bypass the conscious mind to get to the unconscious mind. He tells his subjects interesting facts or stories to create curiosity and suspense to keep the conscious mind attended. Erickson understands that the […]
The Life we Live
Written by Eugene Morgan “Life isn’t something you can give an answer to today,” Milton Erickson We don’t know the ultimate question about why we are here. But since we’re here we might as well enjoy it, learn from it and experience it thoroughly. Then we can pass down our experiences to the next generation. […]
Surprise, Shock and Barriers
Written by Eugene Morgan Milton Erickson often uses surprise and shock to break up the barriers of the conscious mind. Surprises are meant to be delivered unexpectedly to the person. In life when we’re presented with something unexpectedly, our conscious mind is temporarily off-balance. This unbalance of the conscious mind awakens the unconscious mind. This […]
On Being Flexible
Written by Eugene Morgan Erickson was always trying to find a way to help someone be flexible. Flexibility is like a branch that’s not easily broken by the wind. The branch moves in the same direction of the wind. Or it’s like a runner who stretches before a race to prevent an injury. Or it’s like […]
Getting Back to Riddles & Puzzles
Written by Eugene Morgan Riddles and puzzles’ function are to stretch our minds. Riddles and puzzles are a good exercise for the mind. Riddles and puzzles are not designed to give up answers easily. We have to work for them. Sometimes, we give up too soon and get upset with ourselves, only to kick ourselves […]
Make A Detour In Life
Written by Eugene Morgan “It is the experience of reassociating and reorganizing his own experiential life that eventuates in a cure,” Milton Erickson We can’t make a change if we’re insisting on thinking of the problem the same way. We need another way of thinking, or a new frame of reference to reorganize our experiential life. It’s like […]
What Greater Joy!
Written by Eugene Morgan “And what greater joy is there than doing what you want to do?” Milton Erickson We all want joy in our lives. When we think back on what made us joyful, we feel a sense of freedom; that we have forgotten about; that’s sometimes lacking in our present lives. We have an […]
Desire to Meet Life’s Goals
Written by Eugene Morgan We all have desires to meet life’s goals in our lives. There are some goals that’s left undone. Unmet goals equal a feeling of regrets. Regrets only remind us of our incomplete projects, our procrastination, our idleness, and our indecision. But to meet our life’s goals, we must learn to complete […]
Goodness is based on Respect for the Self
Written by Eugene Morgan “That sense of goodness and adequacy is not to be based upon a sense of superiority of one’s own attributes, but upon a respect for the self.” Milton Erickson What is so important in humanity and the animal kingdom, is respect. When our self-respect gets depleted, our anxiety and hostility level […]
Things That Motivate
Written by Eugene Morgan Milton Erickson was a master of getting his patients to do crazy things. Erickson didn’t tell his patient what to do, instead he created an atmosphere by utilizing the patient’s unique patterns, interests and beliefs. In so doing, he created within the person motivation to do something that could make a change. The […]
Enjoy in the Process
Written by Eugene Morgan “We learn our goals only in the process of getting there.” Milton Erickson When setting our goals we tend to look at the product, instead of enjoying the process itself. Part of the process is about learning something new. Something about learning new things enriches our lives and keeps things refreshing—and, […]