TO FEEL OR NOT TO FEEL, THAT IS THE QUESTION

“Is your client accessing a feeling state of the ideas and experiences that he’s talking about? Or is your client just talking about it as if from a distance so that he is not emotionally involved?” These two questions gets right to the heart of meta-program #20 Movie Position. Is your client deep inside the movie, being there, feeling it, seeing and hearing as if in first perceptual position (meta-program #B)? Or is your client outside of the movie and just observing it?

Whatever the answer is with any client, it makes a lot of difference. With this meta-program, it is not a case of right or wrong, but entirely one of—effective or ineffective. Here also, we want ourselves and our clients to have the flexibility to move in and out at will. To not be able to step into an experience and to be able to step out at one’s choice is to be less than human (unemotional) or controlled by one’s emotions (an emotional slave).