Neuro-Semantics
ALFRED KORZYBSKI AND THE MEDIA
Picking up the idea in the last Neurons about Korzybski and Commercialism— the problem that made the commercialism morbid and therefore unhealthy is that it promotes shallow…
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI AND COMMERCIALISM
“It is not fully realized that in a symbolic class of life, symbolism of any sort plays an environmental role and creates semantic reactions which may be distinctly morbid.”
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI AND SEMANTIC REACTIONS
You know what a reaction is.
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI AND MINDFULNESS
Korzybski wrote a lot about mindfulness except he did not call it mindfulness, he called it “consciousness of abstracting.”
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI AND THINKING
In consideration of “critical thinking,” Korzybski began by writing about thinking itself.
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI AND CRITICAL THINKING
I learned something the other day.
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MEANING DEFICIENCY & DISTORTION
Another mass murderer and another 11 people dead.
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SAY ‘HELLO’ ONE MORE TIME
In the 1930s Korzybski noted that the brain is not fully developed until the late teens; now we know that the brain, and especially the frontal lobes “do not come fully alive until…
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SAY “HELLO” TO YOUR PREFRONTAL LOBES
As a neuro-linguistic being, your neurology is designed to map the territory which is outside your skin.
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LEARNING PROBLEMS
Some people seem to have a really difficult time learning.
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EQUALITY & COLLABORATION
In one way, and one way only, can we all be considered equal— we are equal in terms of human value.
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CRITICAL THINKING A HUNDRED YEARS AGO
I’ve been reading Korzybski, again.
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LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE
Learning, like thinking, is inevitable and at the essence of being human.
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EMOTIONAL CREDIBILITY
An amazing thing happened this past week.
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FACING UNCERTAINTY
“In my opinion ... As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
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DID SHE OR DID SHE NOT GET OVER THE PAST?
Recently I wrote a series of articles on Getting Over the Past.
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ACCUSATIONS AND CRITICAL THINKING
An accusation was made.
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FACING PERSONAL TRAGEDY
When it comes to personal tragedies—there are a thousand different forms.
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FROM THE PAST INTO THE PRESENT
The past posts on Neurons have focused on the subject of getting over the past.
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THE ART OF REWINDING OLD TERRIFYING MOVIES
NLP calls it “the phobia cure” pattern and sometimes the “visual kinesthetic dissociation” pattern.
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GETTING OVER YOUR PAST CODES
To get over the past, you need to understand about the concept that we call “time”—what it is, what it is not, what you are actually referring to when you speak about the past (or…
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HOW THE PAST LIVES TODAY AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Now you would think that getting over the past would be the simplest thing in the world for a human being.
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GETTING OVER THE PAST
When I first began teaching NLP, I divided the 120 hours of NLP material into four areas— Communication Excellence, Getting Over the Past, Love Workshop, and Guided Imagination for…
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WHY WE DON’T ASK WHY
When it comes to the very idea of modeling, it did not begin with Bandler and Grinder.
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