2. Very often we humans use metaphors
to describe things.

3. Usually to make it easier on the brain.

4. I read this fascinating book a while
back called "Metaphors We Live By."
by George Lakoff, one of Chomsky's
original students.

5. It wasn't quite what I expected.

6. I was thinking it would be about some
kind of mystical metaphysics or
something.

7. Maybe the deep meaning of life.

8. But it was something far more
profound, and illustrates how pretty
much ALL of our thinking is based on
metaphors for what lies beneath the
seemingly normal surface of reality.

9. Basically, whenever we use a noun
that's not a real object, (sometimes in
NLP these are called nominalizations),
we have to use them AS IF they are a
real object.

10. And the preposition (the word that
comes before them in the sentence)
we use WITH THEM describes what
kind of noun our subconscious minds
think they are.

11. I know, this sounds kind of confusing.

12. But think of the noun, "meeting."

13. It's not a physical thing.

14. Sure, there's the meeting room, the
table, the chairs, the people.

15. But the meeting itself is an abstract
concept.

16. What KIND of noun do our brains think
it is?

17. A container. How do we know this?
Because we say "I'm IN a meeting." We
don't say "on" a meeting, or "under" a
meeting. We say "in" a meeting. And
we are "in" containers.

18. How about a train, plane, or boat?

19. We say "on." Like it's a vehicle.

20. How about a team? We also say "on."

21. Because we travel with a team, to
meet other teams.

22. Also like a vehicle.

23. Compared to a club, which is more like
a container. "In" the club.

24. There's basically five or six different
basic categories we put these abstract
nouns in (containers, barriers,
passages, buildings, companions, etc).

25. Which means in our most basic,
fundamental every day language,
we're describing these abstract
concepts in a way that we can pretend
to make sense of them.

26. Most people imagine that reality is
pretty simple.

27. That what you see is what you get.

28. But you know there's much more.

29. The surface is just what's on top.

30. What if all you thought about the
ocean was what it looked like on top?

31. You know that there's MUCH MORE to
this "reality" than meets the eye.
Much more underneath the surface.

32. Stuff most people don't even know
exists, let alone go looking for.

33. How about you?

34. Are you willing to dig through the false
surface, to see what's REALLY inside?

35. mindpersuasion.com/kundalini/