The Laws of Reversed and Concentrated Effort
by James Middleton – Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 10:28 PM
What would happen if you applied the Law of Concentrated Effort to encourage a Patient to try harder and harder to achieve an outcome that was governed by the Law of Reversed Effort?
Surely some very interesting things would happen. I can imagine that the outcome would be a lot like the process that occurs when paradoxical tasking is offered for the client.
This law might be called the process of unredeeming undoingness.
Specifically, clients with sleeping problems report terrible troubles with falling asleep. Remember of course that sleeping is a natural process which is very difficult to make happen.
How about if we told the client not to fall asleep by 10.00 pm, and that they shouldn’t fall asleep really before 2.00 am. They should stay awake and if needed, they should be as active as possible at this time. They could jog round the house, run up and down the stairs, clean out some of the rooms that might be untidy and so on.
What might happen at 10.00 pm?
I wonder….
And what might happen at 2.00 am?
Just some thoughts. I could imagine that anxiety might be treated in the same kind of way. Specifically I would think student skydivers could benefit from this approach..
I want you to be anxious when you put your parachute on, and when you walk to the plane.
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