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Percept Language It is primarily through language that we construct and convey meaning. Percept is a way of changing our use of language so that we change the way we construct and convey meaning. As teachers of Percept, we find that the Percept language is elegant in that it allows us to live within the Percept Orientation. All day long we use language to navigate through our day-to-day lives. And, if we use the Percept language, it becomes a continual reflection of how we are "doing ourselves," and a continual reminder of how we would like to "do ourselves." We stop feeling like victims, overwhelmed, and burdened. We start feeling like we are the architects of our lives. If we don't like aspects of our lives, by using the Percept language, we can engage in the meaningful conversations of life-with others and ourselves. We think that such conversations are the basis for a rich and rewarding life. They always lead us somewhere-often unexpected-if we allow ourselves to loosen our grip on the illusory ideas that we so often hold onto. We find it difficult to convey the profundity of Percept through the written word. We believe Percept is most easily understood through experiential learning and immersion into an environment where people speak nothing but Percept. This is how we learned Percept, and this is how we teach it. However, we can provide the following points explaining the structure of the Percept language: 1. Speaking in the present tense 2. Identifying yourself as the doer of all that you experience 3. Turning objects of speech into parts of yourself -- internalizing them 4. Changing from a passive voice to an active one as much as possible 5. Turning impersonal pronouns like "one, that, it, you" into personal pronouns like "I, me, myself" 6. Eliminating praise and blame We don't want to give the impression that the Percept language is the percept orientation. Percept language is a vehicle that allows people to enter this different orientation. Eventually, one can actually live in the Percept orientation while speaking "regular" language. Next... What Is A Percept Training? |
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