I loved Michel Thomas' take on learning! Sounds like hypnosis to me!

Love is the basis of all good therapy. Of all good teaching. Of all connecting with others. That is why good therapy is not mainly about the method, but about the therapist.

I like what you say about how paying attention to somebody by looking at him with love is legitimizing him. When you involve yourself in the other person with unconditional love - that act gives him the right to exist. When you are met with love, you want to do your very best. That explains why therapy always works when love is the common thread.

About Michel Thomas: Hmm... his thoughts correspond well with my own approach to learning greenlandic. But after one and a half year of listening to people speaking greenlandic at least one hour every day, I have not learned it yet. What am I doing wrong?

I've know this about learning and doing therapy for a long time, but haven't fully trusted it and owned it as enough. I had the opportunity this weekend to dance socially with a Japanese performer and teacher who dances completely with love. She has what you are describing. She could see right through me, incompetencies and all and yet gave me the feeling of being cared for, being connected and being given the freedom to just enjoy whatever was happening or going to happen. It changed my dancing and my image of me in dancing. The way you're getting these ideas across to us is bringing me to this place in work and with myself. Thank you