Learn How to Spell Correctly and Easily
If you are having difficulty with spelling English words, this Spelling Strategy from Neuro-Linguistic Programming can help you to spell easily.
Some popular spelling systems intended to help children spell well use phonetic system and they are mostly useless for spelling English language, because there are no phonetic rules that apply to all English words. Phonetic systems work for languages where each sound is written with one or more characters always, without an exception.
You may have never heard of Serbian or Croation (Eastern European languages), but in those languages rules of spelling are very straightforward - one character is always pronounced in the same way and you'll have no problem following the rule "write exactly the way it sounds and read the letters and words exactly the way sound" because there are no deviation.
Some other languages like French, Spanish or Italian may have different pronounciation for groups of sounds, but whether it is a single character or a group of characters used to represent one sound - they are always pronounced in one way only. That's not the case with English.
In English, you can pronounce a group of letters in many different ways, and you can also encounter many words which are pronounced the same way, but are spelled differently and, of course, have different meaning - and even though there are some general rules, often you'll have to check each words separately. That's why probably every household in an English speaking country has a dictionary to be able to write words correctly in English (that is not necessarily the case in Eastern European countries, for example - where no one has to check the dictionary for the correct spelling of the words).
I do get a lot of emails from people who live in Spanish speaking countries and a lot of these people happen to mis-spell Spanish words because in Latin America letters "b" and "v" are pronounced in the same way (the sound is in-between "b" and "v"), and often people would reverse the spelling of "b" and "v" - simply guessing what the spelling may be.
The fact that English words can be written one way and pronounced in a variation of ways and also that same sound can be written in many different ways - works great for hypnotists (particularly for Ericksonian hypnotists who love to play with hypnotic language). They would intentionally use words with double meanings knowing that even though your conscious mind accepts one meaning, your subconscious mind can act upon the play of words and sounds and get the meaning the hypnotist intended - thus by-passing any resistance from the conscious mind of the listener. They can impress the desired idea by creating many, at first glance, irrelevant and meaningless statements, where all of the statements contain the word that is pronounced in the same way, but may have mutliple meanings - as in "red" - it can mean a color, or it can relate to the past tense of the verb "to read".
I have briefly mentioned "eye accessing cues" on the page related to developing your visualization skills. Turning your eyes in different ways accesses different parts of your brain - parts of your brain which process information in different ways - visually (images), auditorily (sounds) or kinesthetically (feelings).
In order to spell easily the words in English language, you'll have to access the part of your brain which processes visual information. In order to spell words correctly in English you have to be able to "see" the words in your mind. Attempting to spell the words by the way they sound or how they may feel to you, will help you in no way on its own. However, you can use all three representational systems. A "representational system" is a term in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) which simply relates to which sense you are using to process the information - visual, auditory or kinesthetic.
As you look at the word as it is written on the paper, close your eyes and picture it in your mind. You can visualize an imaginary blackboard floating a little bit to the left just above your eye level and imagine on that blackboard the words you desire to remember how to spell correctly. Then you may also repeat the sound of that word and access your feelings later on to sense if it is correct or not.
If you are more of a kinesthetic person (for example you like playing sports or doing physical activity and like to experience the world through sensations) you can imagine creating the letters of the correct spelling in wet sand, or creating (and eating, if you like) cookies shaped like the word you desire to remember, or writing the letters with your fingers in a melted chocolate (you can lick your fingers afterward, if you want).
If you more of an auditory person (you like to listen to music and sing songs), yes you can make a song out of the letters in a word you desire to remember - but in order to get each letter in its write place, you'll have to actually spell each letter separately, together with the entire word - just using one sound that represents the word won't help. So if you wanted to spell the word "red" - you'd also repeat each letter separately "r", "e", "d". If it's some lengthy word and you'd like to also remember the meaning of the word, you can add the meaning of the word to your song, together with the spelling and the pronounciation.
The more you practice using all of your senses - visual, auditory and kinesthetic when learning how to spell each word, the faster you'll learn how to spell all the words you'd like to learn - because then instead of trying to repeat words over and over and over again, you'll be able to do it only once and it will stick in your mind.
If you'd like to listen to hypnosis recordings for Spelling, you can get it here.
c) 2004, Dr. Laura De Giorgio,
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