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Creating and Delivering Implications (an algorithm)

1. Outcome. Identify your outcome for the client, what you want to have happen. (Example: The client will talk freely about their problem.)
2. Opposite. Think of the opposite of this outcome (not talking freely; keeping information secret, etc.)
3. Either/or Category. Use space, time, or events (matter/process) as a way to divide the world into two categories (here/there, now/later, conscious/unconscious).
4. Sentence. Apply the opposite of your outcome to the contextual category that is not present (there, then, other) and create a sentence that will imply the outcome that you want the client to infer.