Reframe - A useful skill In PU

author:          "Mystery"
date:             Sun 10 March 2005 20:15 GMT
website:      www.fastseduction.com
subject:       Reframe - A useful skill In PU ...A classic example of a reframe by Virginia Satir concerns a father who complains at the stubbornness of his daughter. This results in a double reframe...

Reframing is altering the meaning or value of something, by altering its context or description
Reframing is a powerful change stratagem. It changes our perceptions, and this may then affect our actions. But does changing our symbolic representation of the real world actually change anything in the real world itself?

Examles:

1. In business, every cheap huckster salesman uses reframing (and visualization) when he says "Picture yourself owning this, the envy of your neighbours." In other words, the goal is no longer merely to cut the grass efficiently.

2. A classic example of a reframe by Virginia Satir concerns a father who complains at the stubbornness of his daughter. This results in a double reframe, in which Satir points out two things to the father:

    (1).There are situations where she will need stubbornness, to protect herself or achieve something. Reframing switches to a context that makes the stubbornness relevant.
    (2). It is from the father himself that she has learned to be stubborn. By forcing the father to equate his own stubbornness with hers, this creates a context in which he either has to recognize the value of her stubbornness, or deny the value of his own.

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