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It seems like the missing step, right between 3 and 4, is "and then a miracle occurs."

That's why I made my original comment. Maybe you're not a charlatan, in which case I'd have to conclude you're thinking irrationally and have been deceived by some form of magical thinking.

You have not proposed any mechanism by which these steps can form a consistent treatment for problems that individuals have struggled with for years. You've merely declared that it will, and a whole lot of faith is required.

Other posts in this thread mostly propose a mechanism, even if we readers don't have the prerequisites to fully understand it. For example, consider the proposal that machine learning could be applied to the mundane tasks a radiologist performs. It may or may not pan out, but it has a basis.

I come to changework (coaching) from a slightly different direction; I'll share what I see as underlying mechanisms in case it helps.

Basically, what we do is based on how we see things. If we can change how we see things, then new actions & results become available.

Then the question just becomes, how can we change how we see things.

If how we see something comes from what we've experienced, then introducing a new experience can have us see it differently.

If how we see something comes from what we think about it, then we can introduce a new thought about it.

The point being to change the internal mental model related to the thing, so that we see it differently, we experience it differently, it occurs for us differently than it did before.

In the case above, step 3 introduced a new thought and internal experience related to the thing, and thus the step between 3 and 4 is, "their internal mental model, connected to the thing, changed".

Again, the mechanism (and the missing step) becomes, "change how we see & experience something, change our internal model relating to it". And then, some possibilities for triggering that include having a new thought about it, having a new experience about it; and various techniques can exist for introducing those experiences or thoughts.

At least, that's how I see it (how it occurs for me, how I've experienced it).

There must be a word distributed analogously to "charlatan" which describes your role here, but it escapes me at the moment.

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