The interesting thing about presuppositions is that they act covertly by operating at an unconscious level and we have to know them on one level to understand what they are communicating to us.
Presuppositions can operate positively and negatively on our lives. For that reason they tend to be subjective and often serve us poorly, causing
Conflict between our conscious desires and our unconscious ones.
For example, a person’s experience of life may have programmed them at an unconscious level to believe that people cannot be trusted. While you may be aware of some of your presuppositions, there will be many that you are not aware of until they cause conflict, challenge or even failure or adversity in your life. It is at this point that such presuppositions can be questioned as being un-resourceful, dis-empowering, or just plain wrong.
The choice is always our own. NLP is all about realising that we have choice, AND providing the psychological ware-with-all to make them the very best choices for our lives.
The key aspect of all assumptions, or what in NLP we call presuppositions, is their value in empowering our lives.
Regardless of anything else, we all inevitably have presuppositions about everything.
Consider presuppositions as the operating system of your internal computer. Those that ‘fit’ or ‘suite’ the operating system slip through and reinforce it. By considering, and embracing new and more resourceful or desirable presuppositions remarkable change, even transformation can take place both in thinking and in performance.
NLP provides a framework of presuppositions that whilst they are not always empirically true can facilitate a framework for creating positive change.
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