How Mentalists Read Your Mind The Art Of Cold Reading or Mind Reading | Page 35

The animal
- A pet?
- Fear? Fear of it? (dog, spider), or Fear of losing it?
- Sadness? Some sort of accident? Was it taken away from you?
Losing something important
Did you lose it? Was it taken away from you? Stolen maybe?
Embarrassment – shame – rejection
“There was a time when you felt very hurt – There was this situation
that bothered you for quite a wile, and you were afraid it might
happen again…
- You were really embarrassed, weren’t you?
- That really bothered you, didn’t it?
… But you learned that you can handle it, didn’t you?
And now that you’re grown up, you can deal with things
differently. But at the time, it really bothered you.”
First money earned
A task you performed, a little job of your own for which you got
paid – Not a gift, but really earned.
The weird person
A kind of strange person – unusual – is it a relative?
Kind of spooky; scary to you as a child
It’s kind of funny now, but it bothered you then
Acting BIG
Remember? You were trying to be grown up. Act like an adult,
polished and smooth, and do things right --- and goofed up.
It’s funny how those things happen!
Darkness
It was dark and you were really afraid. Not so much of the dark,
but that there was something dangerous there. You can laugh at it
now, but back then, when you were small, a child, it was really
frightening.
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