What suggestions we see in a text depends both on the text itself and on our mood. With a positive attitude, it is easier to see positive suggestions; with a negative one, negative ones. What will we see in this text?
We present an analysis made by Elena Drozdova, a student at the University of Practical Psychology.
positive translation
Hey! My name is Fear.
Positive suggestion — they are usually afraid of the unknown, and what is familiar is no longer unknown. Once you’ve met, there’s nothing to be afraid of.
How do you feel when I come to you?
Are you trying not to notice? Are you pretending that I’m not there? If that doesn’t work, are you angry and trying to get rid of me?
Very constructive — all non-adaptive ways of behavior are listed when a person is afraid, and the inefficiency of such behavior becomes obvious by the form of asking questions.
You are fighting me, and it seems that you are already winning …
And here I am again … at the most inopportune moment.
Constructive suggestion: it is shown that fighting fear is a dead end path.
I exist in your life because I have a purpose. Yes, yes, don’t be surprised! You need me! I stand in defense of your life. I protect you from pain and any danger. When you have to experience something «terrible», I’m right there, and I stop you … I don’t want you to be hurt again. It doesn’t matter if the pain is physical or mental. There is always pain behind me. Release your past pain and I will disappear. I just won’t be needed.
Constructive suggestions — there is fear as long as it is needed. To get rid of it, you need to remove the causes of its occurrence. It sets you up to work on changing yourself, personal growth.
When I come, do not drive me away, but rather pay attention to me. Watch me, feel me, let me tell you something very important. When my work is done, I will immediately disappear. Or rather, I will turn into your Power.
A very positive program of action is to listen to your emotions, understand them, find out the reason for their appearance. And when the reason is found, the person will gain strength — the control of emotions and feelings.
I am different. Sometimes I try to keep you from repeating the pain you’ve already experienced in your life. Perhaps, being very small, you experienced, as your own, mother’s or father’s pain. And she became yours too.
And more often than not, you’re only afraid of my shadow. You have no reason to be afraid.
Positive suggestion — sometimes a person is afraid of what happened in the distant past, or in general of what was not with him, but can only happen — this is not a reason to be afraid! The most powerful suggestion is that there is no reason to be afraid.
I’m just a soap bubble.
Very constructive — fear is fragile, it is temporary — a soap bubble is a symbol of fragility, a very vivid image familiar to everyone from childhood — a very effective suggestion.
Come into me bolder, the way is open!!!
Positive reinforcement of the very first suggestion — that which is familiar — is not dangerous. Bolder — a positive suggestion, you are brave.
In summary: everything is very positive and constructive. It is proposed to get acquainted with fear, to accept it, to understand why it appears and what is its use, to learn how to manage emotions — a positive program for personal growth.
Negative translation
Hey! My name is Fear.
Right off the bat, the situation immediately escalates. The construction is very familiar — like in horror movies, animation.
How do you feel when I come to you?
Everyone is afraid, everyone has fears. And you are no exception. Classical suggestion, we practiced on NLP. “What kind of porridge will you have for breakfast — oatmeal or buckwheat?”
Are you trying not to notice? Are you pretending that I’m not there?
Here are the first negative suggestions in the form of accusing-provocative questions. You try, you pretend — that is, the incompleteness of the action, its uselessness is suggested with the help of the corresponding forms of verbs. In this case, a person should have a feeling of helplessness.
If that doesn’t work, are you angry and trying to get rid of me?
“Continuation of the banquet” — Suggested — it will not be possible to fight fear. And then — it is suggested, you should be angry. Well, you try to get rid of it — this again emphasizes the unfinished action, it is suggested that this is not happening.
You are fighting me, and it seems that you are already winning … And here I am again … at the most inopportune moment.
This is generally a “pearl” — people react most painfully when something breaks at the very goal. This suggestion is generally on the verge of being acceptable — it draws a very vivid picture of a situation that has the strongest response, when salvation is just a stone’s throw away, but no … A very strong suggestion against an emotionally significant background, a suggestion of helplessness.
I exist in your life because I have a purpose. Yes, yes, don’t be surprised! You need me! I stand in defense of your life.
Without stopping, it is suggested that the master of the situation and the leader is fear. Helplessness, dependence is suggested.
I protect you from pain and any danger. When you have to experience something «terrible», I’m right there, and I stop you … I don’t want you to be hurt again. It doesn’t matter if the pain is physical or mental. There is always pain behind me.
Well, here again is a suggestion — a person always has pain (There is something to work with! The word “Pain” is repeated and repeated — a person must remember — he has pain!)
Get rid of past pain
The previous suggestion intensifies — there is always pain in the past
and I will disappear. I just won’t be needed.
When I come, do not drive me away, but rather pay attention to me. Watch me, feel me, let me tell you something very important. When my work is done, I will immediately disappear. Or rather, I will turn into your Power.
A bunch of suggestions — immerse yourself in experiences, don’t fight, let feelings do their job, you don’t decide anything, feelings rule here …
I am different. Sometimes I try to keep you from repeating the pain you’ve already experienced in your life. Perhaps, being very small, you experienced, as your own, mother’s or father’s pain. And she became yours too.
Oh no! This is already becoming ridiculous … Again, suggestion — you have pain, you experienced it as a child, and if you didn’t, then there is the pain of your parents, and now it is yours. In short — you have pain, remember!
And more often than not, you’re only afraid of my shadow. You have no reason to be afraid.
But, this suggestion is fresher — you are afraid.
I’m just a soap bubble. Come into me bolder, the way is open!!!
Just a miracle — welcome, now you have pain and fear. Welcome to therapy!
A person is suggested that he is helpless, all his attempts are hopeless, and he definitely has pain, and in the past there is a lot of it (that’s something to work with!), And the person also took on the pain of his parents (a couple more years of therapy), and a person also has fear (another year or two of work, because fear will go away only when his work is finished, you can’t drive him away …) And most importantly, the path is open (Read — we are waiting for therapy!).
Summary
For a person with a consistently positive worldview, the article is not harmful, it contains several useful tips. Considering that more often articles about fears are read by people with fears, people with an unstable or negative worldview, the article confidently loads the reader with a set of strongly negative suggestions. In total, the author wanted the best, but wrote a harmful article.