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(16 min.)
The first time I listened to this session, I went under and couldn’t recall any of it—and I am not an easy subject! On going back through it a number of times it became very clear why. Michael’s soft, slow voice, his timing of pauses, and his impeccable syntax and sentence structure make it very easy.
The fundamental themes in the session follow directly from the information gathering:
The past does not determine the future: “You know you're much more than your past, Mike, and that phrase of being much more than your past is going to surface at different times and different places.” “A hundred years ago, no one would have predicted the space shuttle and the space station. Things change.” “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
Accessing examples of times when Mike has already done things that prove that the past does not determine the future: “There are already things that you have done, Mike, that you wouldn't have predicted from your past.” “There are strengths that you have, that you have used to cope, that you have used to build a life for yourself, being married, having your own family...”
Dissociating from his habitual way of being absorbed in the past: “I invite you to step outside your usual experience of yourself.”
Emphasizing changing Mike’s response rather than the world:
“We’re not going to be able to change the world, but your internal response is eminently negotiable.”
Accessing pleasant past experiences: “You start to discover in yourself places and things that feel good to you, situations, even memories that you’d forgotten about, of things that were quite nice... the good people that you’ve met along the way, people who went out of their way to do something for you.” “To know that you can go inside yourself and find good experiences, simple pleasures, the look on your child’s face when you do something funny and unexpected, simple things that remind you of the extraordinary range of feelings you’re capable of, perceptions that you’re capable of, understandings that you’re capable of.”
Teaching how to discriminate between when it is appropriate to listen to an internal voice and when it is not, and teaching a variety of mechanisms for not paying attention to the critical voices: “Those are things that can drift past and not stick to you.” “What is interesting is how they can become quiet and easy to ignore.” “These are things that can drift past and not stick to you, things that you have clearly left behind.”
Building a “wall” that “compartmentalizes” the past and isolates it from the present and future: “Slowly and steadily build a wall around what was, to create an endless range of possibilities of what can be.”
Future-pacing special happy experiences of connecting with his family and friends: “... ways that you want to be able to connect with your wife, your kids, evolve friendships with people.” “With every interaction with your family you have an opportunity to make things better.”
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