EQ - operation presuppositions

Some of the operational presupposition:

• The brain only learns quickly
• Mind and body are components of the same system and what affects one inevitably affects the other: any separation is artificial
• We simultaneously communicate at unconscious and conscious level
• We continuously process information through our five/or more senses
• All distinctions we are able to make concerning our environment and our behaviour can therefore be usefully represented through our senses
• Recognizing responses requires sensory channels which are clean and open
• The most important information about a person is that person's behavior
• The intention behind a person does fundamentlly positive for them
• There is a context in which every behavior has value
• Behavior is geared for adaptation, and present behavior is the best choice currently available to a person within his or her model fo the world
• The positive worth of any individual is constant, while the value and appropriateness of their internal/external behavior can be questioned
• A person's behavior is not who they are: we can disapprove of what a person does and yet respect who they are
• Changing the process by which we experience reality is more valuable than changing the content of our experience or reality
• The map/or our thinking is not the territory/reality
• We operate from our internal maps rather than from the external reality
• THe words we use are not the event or item they represent
• Respect for the other person's model of the world is essential for effective communication
• Rapport is about meeting individuals at their map of the world
• The meaning of communicating is the response that it elicits
• There is no failure in communication, only feedback
• All results and behaviors are achievements, whether they are desired outcomes for a given task/context or not
• Resistence in a person is a sign of lack of rapport: there are no "resistant" people, only inflexible communicators
• We have within us all the resources necessary to achieve any desire change
• There are no unresourceful people, only unresourceful states
• It is when we are a tour most flexible that we have the highest probability of achieving the response we desire
• Any procedure carried out should increase the range of choices available
• Behavior and change are to be evaluated in terms of context and ecology
• Modeling successful performance leads to excellence if somebody can do something, anybody can
• I am in charge of my mind, and therefore my results