As an example, many common medical solutions are remedial - they cure the disease, and that's it. However, it's become increasingly common to have generative medical solutions. Understanding what a healthy diet and regular exercise can do to your health is one example, and using vaccinations is yet another. Imagine the chance of taking the level a little deeper. Imagine the chance of always being healthy. Not just passably healthy (never getting a disease), but joyfully vibrantly healthy! One way to go about this would be make a generative approach to being healthy an everyday experience, generating on a much deeper level.

In passing...

Some of the earlier NLP books such as Trance-Formations deal with generative change in passing. Using your Brain -- for a Change also talks about using positive feedback as the basic generative mechanism. The more you thank and compliment someone on more quality of themselves, the more they natural use that quality. Attention produces results.

In more detail...

Some of the pre-cursors to NLP talked about generative change a great deal more. Gregory Bateson, as well as other cyberneticists, studied change. He talked about three levels of change. The first is a purely stimulus-response learning. You need a stimulus, and then you decide which one of the available to use to respond. Learning the correct response is first level learning.

The second level of learning is learning out of which set of responses you choose your response. The third level of learning is learning from which set of sets of responses you choose your response.

'Learning II' -- the second level of learning -- is fundamentally more creative than the first kind of learning. It aims at producing a new alternative, rather than just choosing one of the possibilities offered.

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Last updated: 17 October 1997