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Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
“I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.”
Source: Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.
“The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?”
Source: The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion
“We always translate the other person's language into our own language.”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy
“You can't effect the cards that you are dealt, but you can determine how you play them.”
“The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.”
“Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.”
“How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?”
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!”
“Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
“Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.”
“When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge.”
Source: The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
Source: The Letters of Milton H. Erickson
Source: The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy
“The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.”
“Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.”
Source: The Letters of Milton H. Erickson
“Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.”