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Trance is a natural everyday experience.
Milton H. Erickson
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Milton H. Erickson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Hypnotherapist
Hypnotist
Psychiatrist
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Milton Hyland Erickson
Milton Erickson
Trance
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I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
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The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.
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What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
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Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
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There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
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As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.
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The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.
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Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
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The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
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Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.
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Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.
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Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
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Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
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