Metaphors

NLP provides us with a model to construct and deliver metaphors to bring about desired outcomes in our acquaintances and clients. The language patterns of NLP provide extremely helpful tools in teaching, negotiating, managing, preaching, therapy and in all areas of communication. The utilization of metaphors provide the public speaker with some extremely helpful and useful tools. It seems that everyone loves a story. In therapy they provide the frame or mindset to initiate change and to solidify change. Milton Erickson mastered the use of metaphors and I am told in his later life his therapies consisted almost in entirety in the utilization of metaphors.