PSYCHO BABBLE

In a World where aromatherapy and reflexology are considered by the majority to be mumbo jumbo buzz words, why do self development courses have to use incomprehensible psycho babble to explain the concepts they are trying to put forward? Why can’t they just speak plain English?

We have campaigned for years to make lawyers write in “plain language” and I now finally understand credit card and loan agreements, guarantees, user agreements and such like. When I was a teenager they were totally incomprehensible and I had to hire a lawyer to unravel multi self negating statements and legal terms or sign and hope for the best.

“Where in your life are you letting your present dictate your inaction? Where are you living more in the inaction than in the doing? When you live in the notion that you are tied to someone else’s inaction where is the responsibility in that for you?”

What the hell does that mean?

All these courses teach great ideals about authenticity, self-responsibility and working through your past to create a brighter future. People who participate on these courses undoubtedly achieve more so why the mystery of ambiguous and hard to understand language. What are they trying to hide in the catchy phraseology?

I have been on courses where people simply can’t get “simple” concepts because the course leader is speaking in tongues. It is a case of all the right words and not necessarily in the right order. Life coach? Seminar Leader? Better make it ridiculously complicated (and hide the manual) in case someone else steals all your ideas – And just how is that going to accelerate group consciousness?

Why teach abundance, then shroud the path to abundance in catch phrases and secret exercises?

So what does the sentence mean?

I think it means how is what you are doing now stopping you from doing what you want to do? Are you sitting on your arse and thinking about what you want to do a lot and not actually doing it? And by thinking it’s not your fault you’ll just end up with more of the same, so how is blaming someone else useful?

It’s pretty simple once you’ve listened to enough of this crap.

Don’t get me wrong, the message is brilliant. I just think the messenger hasn’t declared their interest in keeping participants confused and in the program.