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You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.
Milton H. Erickson
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Milton H. Erickson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Milton Hyland Erickson
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Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
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Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.
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Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
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You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
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Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
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I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.
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Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
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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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Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
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The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
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A goal without a date is just a dream.
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Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
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The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
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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 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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Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.
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Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
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What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
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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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The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
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