As a way of viewing things – stepping out of a picture, remembered experience, or even an ongoing current experience – and take a second position empowers us to cope with things without going into state. Choosing when to do this, to what degree and when to stop doing this provides us with a flexibility of consciousness of much value.
In NLP the process of framing refers to putting things in different contexts (frames of reference), thus giving them different meanings.
To shift to a different frame typically will reframe one’s perspective and therefore one’s meaning. And when we do this, our very world changes. This transformation of meaning alters our neuro-linguistic and neuro-semantic “reality” so that we see things differently, feel different emotions, act and speak in different ways, etc.
“As If” Frame
The “As If” frame assists in problem solving by pretending that something has already happened which enables the exploration of possibilities.
Types of “As If" Frames
Time Switch: Pretend that you have moved six months or a year into a successful future. Then, look back and ask yourself, “What steps did I take that led me to this successful outcome?”
From this future perspective you may discover new and important information that previously you did not have available to you in the immediate present. We often live too close to the problem and that sometimes hinders our seeing the total picture. This frame assists us in seeing the problem from a future perspective.
Person Switch: “If you could become anyone you wanted to become, who or what would you become and how would they handle this problem?”
Information Switch: “Let’s just suppose that you had all the information you needed, then what do you suppose…?”
Function Switch: “Just pretend that you could change any part of the situation…”
What you will learn in this chapter:
How meaning completely depends upon frames
A number of empowering frames in NLP
How to shift frames (reframe) to transform meaning
How to use the Dissociative Frame
Not what you’re given.
Not what you need.
So if you don’t believe, don’t concede.
Disagree.
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