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Someone wrote the other day the following sentence.
"I want to try to learn to deal with depression."
Fellow NLPers will have a field day with this.
For the energy workers amongst us, just have a go and tune into every part of that sentence which are if you pick them apart
I want
to try
to learn
to deal with
depression
For each part, say that, feel it in your body and notice the difference and what kind of energy that is.
Each one is quite worrying in its own right.
Presuppositions (that which has to be there before you could EVER even get to saying what you're saying in the first place, even though you're not saying that at all) are interesting.
In the case of this sentence and its components, quite fabulous, really.
I want => I don't have, it is absent
to try => experiment, attempt, outcome unknown, uncertain, possibly prejudiced towards non-success;
to learn => I don't know, knowledge or skills are absent, current state is unknowingness, possibly confusion and helplessness;
to deal with => to manage something external, engage in an exchange with something external, payment involved of some kind, cost to self;
Finally there is "depression".
Without any form of further reference which would make it a little easier to pin-point what that is, or to get more of a handle on it, such as "my depression" which would give you a presupposition that you OWN the depression and thereby are its master; or "the depression" which is something you can localise, pin point and ask, "Where is THE depression, show me with your hands, point!"
Depression is of course, a nominalisation; a process that has been taken out of time and now lives in a timeless space of nothingness as a "concept" that you can't put into a wheelbarrow or chuck tomatoes at any longer.
For the energy people, once again, to tell the difference, try this exercise. Tune into each one and note the difference, where you feel it, how it feels. By all means, ET the lot. Energy of learning and all that.
Depression
The Depression
My Depression
A Depression
...
Interesting, isn't it.
Let's play some more with words.
Depression comes from being depressed.
I am depressed.
So we have that form, and the noun/nominalisation - but where's the requisite original verb gone?
To depress
I depress.
I am depressing.
I am depressing you.
He is depressing me.
Yesterday, I depressed for four hours following a particularly awful episode of Desperate Housewives.
With most nominalisations, turning them back into an active verb form such as "I depress" gives you leverage OVER the entire process that produces depression (or "communication", "love", "enlightenment", "anger" and so forth situations.
Tune into the following two statements and spot the difference:
I have been suffering from depression since my husband died.
I have been depressing since my husband died.
That's the same difference as you would find in these sentences/energy information sequence events:
I have been suffering from crying since my husband died.
I have been crying since my husband died.
As different as night and day. And of course, the responses to those statements likewise, from SELF AND OTHERS, are completely different as well.
So if we go back to our original sentence now which was:
"I want to try to learn to deal with depression."
... which is in fact a five stage step ladder down into swirling undefined misery and helplessness (don't take my word for it, try it. FEEL it as it starts out wobbly and then goes down and down with every part of the sentence until we are in depression itself - whatever that may be ...
... and bearing in mind what we've just experienced about the energy of this, now we might ask ourselves, "HOW do we fix this? HOW do we help this person? What prescription/prayer/spell/intervention could change that, ALL OF THAT and what it stands for, in a heartbeat?
That's an interesting question, to be sure.
I have my own ideas, of course, but by all means, keep this one in mind and wonder every so often.
And if you want to pay more attention to what other people think and say and write, or you yourself for that matter, and the energy of language in general, by all means, go write ahead.
:-)
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