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Implications if the client runs her own business:
- Need to be self-confident
- In good health
- Facing plenty of stress
- Working long hours
- Problems with clients who don’t pay on time
- Administrative worries: taxes, health insurance,
bookkeeping, …
If the client is a sporty type:
- Takes health issues seriously
- Disinclined to smoking, junk food, excessive drinking
- Possibly vegetarian
- Partner is also keeping him self in good shape, or, - if not : client has undertaken repeated attempts to encourage
him to do so.
- Good mental discipline (regular training, diet, …)
- Active vacations (tracking, skiing, …)

6 The Jargon Blitz
Is an explicit reference to the supposed psychic system or
power in use, liberally peppered with appropriate jargon, and
culminating in a prompt for feedback.
The jargon blitz imposes the authority of the psychic and helps to
promote the sense of ritual which promotes the desired cooperation
“You should know that what happens is that thoughts come to me,
and feelings, and some times images. Often it is like looking through
the mist. I may mix up past and present and future. Often, the exact
meaning of what I sense will be clearer to you than it is to me. And
sometimes I will make a mistake. All I can do is do my best for you.
Do you understand?”
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