Distortions in Thinking 4 Meta Model Rapport Archive NLP Distortions in Thinking 4 Meta Model Rapport Issue 47 Publication Date October 28th 2015 Authors Joe Cheal In the first few pages of The Structure of Magic I, Richard Bandler and John Grinder (*1) give an example of a man who was convinced he was not worth caring about. Indeed he believed that his wife gave him no ‘messages of caring’ at all. When Richard and John went to see the couple, they found that the wife did express messages of caring but the man didn’t appear to hear. It was as if he was deleting the positive messages from his experience. When they reflected the positive messages back to the man, he apparently smiled and said: ‘She just says that because she wants something!’... NLP To access the rest of this article, you need to use 1 credit ANLP members get complimentary credits that can be used for purchasing from the Rapport archive - a collection of more than a 1000 high quality articles written by some of the leading voices in the field of NLP. Non-members can buy Rapport credits via the ANLP store. JOIN ANLP BUY RAPPORT CREDITS If you have already purchased this article, you can log in to access it