The brain cannot understand negative words.
🌟Daily Note.com ~ DAY 51🌟
When I studied NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) psychology
there was something that was shocking in a good way. That is,
our brain cannot understand negative words,
Our Brain Cannot Comprehend the Negative.
is what it means.
For example, to use an example from my NLP mentor, when told, "Please do not imagine that Doraemon is here," you imagine Doraemon for a moment and try to erase him, but because you have already imagined him, it is difficult to erase him.
Or, looking at a restroom sign I saw the other day, it said, "Please do not smoke here. Please do not throw away household trash. Please do not throw away medical equipment such as injection needles." The person who reads this will have images of cigarettes, household trash, and injection needles floating up and will dutifully line them up in their head.
The brain cannot understand negative words
is what that means.
The reason I thought about this today is because of the stairs I saw when I met my best friend at the pleasant Takanawa Gateway Station designed by Kengo Kuma 🚉 (the bench design is also wonderful❣️) 👏 at
9月12日にオープンしたばかりのTAKANAWA GATEWAY CITYで、親友と待ち合わせをしたときに見た階段がきっかけだ。
Since I always watched buildings being constructed in the place that used to be a train depot when I passed by (I didn't feel bad about it because they didn't cut down trees like in Jingu Gaien), I was interested in how it turned out, and I was looking forward to meeting my best friend, so I started climbing the stairs with excitement.
While climbing, I saw: stagnation, division, prejudice, vanity, regret, boredom, lies, inertia, precedent — wait? Why don't I feel very good? Even though all of them have a "not" attached, it hasn't been conveyed to the brain.
I felt a little disappointed that if the person who designed this advertisement had known NLP, they would have lined up some more pleasant words.
After running up the stairs, of course, that feeling blew away, the reunion with my best friend was super fun❣️, and it was a TAKANAWA GATEWAY CITY that I still want to explore more.
I am also grateful to the stairs for giving me the theme to write about today.
The fact that the brain cannot understand negative words means,
if you think about it the other way around,
"If you think in positive words, the brain will understand and it will enter your head smoothly." can be said. Negative: "Don't forget anything." Positive: "Did you bring everything?"
→ From the image of "forgetting something" to the image of "bringing everything"
Negative: "Don't worry." Positive: "Rest assured." "It's okay."
→ From the image of "worry" to "peace of mind" and "it's okay"
In particular,
when thinking about what you want to do, your dreams, or your goals, it is important to think in affirmative sentences
is important.
I think I will write about that another time.
That's all for today~ I hope this is helpful to someone 🤗
Mihoko Love🦋
(Note to self: This is my draft and that's okay😋)
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