There was once a king (unconscious mind) who always meant well for his people. However, he was gullible and take messages as they were. To protect him, the Prime Minister (conscious mind) was usually very cautious about external influence to ensure that the King was not badly influenced.
Both of them worked together to manage the country and both meant well for the people. However, the relationship between them was strange because the king was speech-impaired and as a result sometimes the Prime Minister (PM) could not figure out very clearly what the King meant. To make matters worse, the king also had some hearing problems at times and so could not catch what the PM wanted to tell him.
The king sometimes went to the city to learn more about the condition of his people. From his trips, he gained different experiences and because his bodyguards also could not clearly understood his questions, they would sometimes gave wrong answers. The King being the gullible type, took the answers as they were without questioning them. When he went back to the palace, he would write new decrees and had the PM implement them. The PM knows some of those decrees were not the best for the people but being the PM, he could only advice the king.
One day, the PM shared his challenge with a wise man and the wise man came out with a brilliant idea. As both of them could not communicate well with each other, he advised the PM to jot down all his words and actions and create a dictionary out of it. From then on, the PM could then use the king's 'language' to communicate effectively with the king. Ever since, the ideas and implementation went well each time and the country and its people live happily. They have developed a new communication method and today we call this method NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming).
The Cast:
King - the Unconscious Mind
PM - the Conscious Mind
Country - our body
People - the people around us
Director's comment:
Our unconsious mind is very gullible and believe every experience that it goes through. From those experience, it starts to create different behaviour that meant well but not always the best behavior. Because of this, the conscious mind always try to protect the unconscious from negative external influence. The tricky part is the conscious mind is also moulded by the unconscious. So, even when the conscious mind has a good intention, but the behaviour exhibited can be totally opposite and it could make us feel helpless of 'why we do what we do.' The new communication method in this story is NLP where we learn the different language to talk to our unconscious and with better rapport and communication, we are now able to work with our unconscious mind to create behaviors that are congruent with each other.
