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You can use the concept of energy with your patients.
You can say a person is very much like an automobile.
You wake up in the morning with a full tank of gaso-
line, or a full tank of energy, and just running through
the day uses up your energy. You go to sleep at night,
and you fill up on energy for the next day. You can
carry only so much energy within certain limits. Then
how are you going to utilize that energy? "You use it
all in worrying," I pointed out to a patient who had
a ritualistic, phobic, panicky reaction to his television
broadcast. Forced panting, breathing, and for 15 min-
utes he would stand gasping, and gasping, and chok-
ing, and his heart would pound, and then they would
say, "You're on," and he'd broadcast over TV with the
greatest of ease. But each day he became increasingly
more miserable. At first it started with a minute or
two; by the time he came to see me it was built up to
15 minutes. He was looking forward to 20 minutes,
30 minutes, an hour; and it was beginning to interfere
with his other work at the station. I gave him that
concept of so much energy a day after I found out
what his sleeping habits were. As you would expect,
rather ritualistic. Always in bed at a certain hour. Al-
ways up at a certain hour. After I got that concept
of energy pounded into his head, I pointed out to
him, why not use up that energy that he spent that
way? (Demonstrating panting.) How many deep squats
would it take each day?
Conversations with Milton H. Erickson (Erickson, Haley)
You can say a person is very much like an automobile.
You wake up in the morning with a full tank of gaso-
line, or a full tank of energy, and just running through
the day uses up your energy. You go to sleep at night,
and you fill up on energy for the next day. You can
carry only so much energy within certain limits. Then
how are you going to utilize that energy? "You use it
all in worrying," I pointed out to a patient who had
a ritualistic, phobic, panicky reaction to his television
broadcast. Forced panting, breathing, and for 15 min-
utes he would stand gasping, and gasping, and chok-
ing, and his heart would pound, and then they would
say, "You're on," and he'd broadcast over TV with the
greatest of ease. But each day he became increasingly
more miserable. At first it started with a minute or
two; by the time he came to see me it was built up to
15 minutes. He was looking forward to 20 minutes,
30 minutes, an hour; and it was beginning to interfere
with his other work at the station. I gave him that
concept of so much energy a day after I found out
what his sleeping habits were. As you would expect,
rather ritualistic. Always in bed at a certain hour. Al-
ways up at a certain hour. After I got that concept
of energy pounded into his head, I pointed out to
him, why not use up that energy that he spent that
way? (Demonstrating panting.) How many deep squats
would it take each day?
Conversations with Milton H. Erickson (Erickson, Haley)
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