Attending to the elephant

More elephant/rider related stuff - Maile McCarthy on her Breath by Breath blog (from where I've lifted her illustration) suggests attention as a way of bringing the conscious rider and the unconscious elephant into greater harmony:

noticing when your conscious and unconscious thoughts are pulling in opposite directions

As Fritz Perls said, "attention is itself curative".

Meanwhile, the Australian NLP trainer Chris Collingwood (in a separate conversation on nlpconnections.com) tells me that he prefers the description of 'conscious attention and unconscious processes' rather than conscious and unconscious minds - following John Grinder in this I think.