I like your concept of tricking ourselves into change.

I agree that our attempts to change ourselves with an attitude of aiding ourselves are often hit or miss. NLP modeling can also suffer from the heaviness that accompanies the attitude of helping ourselves.

As I said in my post, I think we are “built” to be simulators, to be possibility explorers.

I think that games and play enable us to click into a natural mode of simulation. Both games and play are typically activated with an open attitude that invites a different “world” with different rules.

This offers a tremendous potential for change, as long as the play and games remain with their natural “light” atmosphere, and don’t turn into a high-pressure game with a mean, controlling coach who takes all the fun out of it.