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One of the simplest and most useful exercises that psychotherapy has gifted to us is known as the empty chair technique.
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A client who has been wrestling with their feelings towards someone
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is gently requested to stop discussing them in the third person and is instead invited to face a chair
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and start talking to this bit of furniture as if it were, to all intents, the specific troubling person in their life, perhaps a long-dead absent father,
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a neglectful mother, or a traitorous so-called friend.
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Many of us spend a good deal of time ruminating on difficult people in the recesses of our minds.
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We say that so-and-so really deserves a comeuppance, or that we'd love to give X or Y a taste of what we actually think.
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We find ourselves returning to them again and again late at night and on the journey to work, their offences interrupting our sleep and spoiling our digestion.
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And yet we rarely speak with any degree of clarity or sincerity, out of a fear of retribution,
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a dread of vulnerability, a pessimism as to the chances of being understood, or perhaps stubbornly ingrained good manners.
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The feelings remain in us in a latent form,
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contributing to a layer of static frustration that damages our health and lends a compulsive quality to our moods.
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Now, under the aegis of a therapist, we can give form to our cloudy annoyance.
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Once we move past the hesitation at the particular strangeness of discoursing with a seat, we may find that we are a great deal more eloquent than we supposed,
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far more sure of what we needed to say, far more at home with letting the world energetically know how things look through our eyes.
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Dad, why did you have children if you couldn't even be bothered to get to know them?
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Why did you think that your responsibility stopped at providing for them materially?
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Chris, why do you pretend that you don't want to be intrusive
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when in fact you just never take an interest in me, despite the hours that I've listened to your troubles?
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All this might not seem so different from previous remarks like, I'm pretty angry with X or Y,
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but the impact of a concrete articulation and a public audition is of a different order.
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Anger is a poison and to speak it is to drain it of its malevolent force.
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We falsely imagine that the only speeches we can ever usefully make are to flesh and blood attentive listeners.
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In truth, it may matter far less that we are heard than that we have a chance to speak.
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The empty chair technique is liable to be especially helpful to
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those of us who had to grow up to be extremely good boys and girls.
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There may be few opportunities to be anything but when dad is an alcoholic or has a violent temper, temper, mum is neglectful, or a sibling is very ill.
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We may lack any knowledge of how to complain because, in our formative period, we sensed correctly that our survival depended upon meekness and good humour.
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We learned to smile and appease when we would have needed a long wail at the unfairness and cruelty of it all.
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Our silence may have won us a safe enough passage into adulthood.
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Its ongoing nature threatens to ruin the remaining years.
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We may fear that we won't be able to get too far into a speech
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without either collapsing into humiliating tears or escalating into unmanageable fury.
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The empty chair technique can reassure us on both fronts.
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There can be ways of speaking without shouting, of saying no without being alarming, of standing up for ourselves without coming across as entitled or unworthy.
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We can assert our needs without bringing about the catastrophe we fear.
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And we can start right now, without even waiting for a psychotherapist, by looking across the room to the nearest available chair
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and asking who should be sitting there and what if I needed to tell them for the longest time.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección
Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Empty Chair Therapy: Heal Your Past, Improve Your Future”. Las palabras que más se repiten: chair, technique, empty, fear, speak. Este vídeo tiene 38 frases y 683 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 3:57. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 173 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 78 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.
Vocabulario clave de este vídeo
Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:
| Palabra | Pronunciación | Significado |
|---|---|---|
| temper sustantivo | /ˈtɛmpɚ/ | temperamento, carácter |
| annoyance sustantivo | /əˈnɔɪ.əns/ | disgusto, irritación |
| appease verbo | /əˈpiːz/ | apaciguar |
| articulation sustantivo | /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ | articulación |
| attentive adjetivo | /əˈtɛntɪv/ | atento, solícito |
| comeuppance sustantivo | /kʌmˈʌpəns/ | merecido, escarmiento |
| compulsive adjetivo | /kəmˈpʌlsɪv/ | compulsivo |
| digestion sustantivo | /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/ | digestión |
| eloquent adjetivo | /ˈɛl.əˌkwənt/ | elocuente |
| energetically adverbio | enérgicamente | |
| escalate verbo | /ˈɛs.kə.leɪt/ | elevar a un nivel superior |
| humiliate verbo | /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/ | humillar, papear |
| ingrain verbo | /ɪŋˈɡɹeɪn/ | arraigar |
| intrusive adjetivo | /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/ | intruso, intrusivo |
| latent adjetivo | /ˈleɪ.tənt/ | latente |
Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar
| Palabra | Significado |
|---|---|
| come across verbo | pasarse a |
| stand up for verbo | romper una lanza por, romper lanzas por |
Gramática en este vídeo
Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:
| Estructura | En el vídeo |
|---|---|
| Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace | is known · being understood · be bothered |
| Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora | has gifted · I've listened |
Pronunciación a tener en cuenta
El hablante usa 6 contracciones y formas reducidas, como couldn't, don't, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.
- Los sonidos de “th”: psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/, unworthy /ʌnˈwɝði/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/
- Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, reassure /ˌɹi.əˈʃʊɹ/, retribution /ˌɹɛt.ɹɪˈbju.ʃən/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/
- Palabras largas — cuida el acento: articulation /ɑɹˌtɪk.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/, humiliate /hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/, malevolent /məˈlɛvələnt/, pessimism /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/, psychotherapy /ˌsaɪkoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:
- s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: spoil /spɔɪl/, static /ˈstæt.ɪk/
- /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: attentive /əˈtɛntɪv/, compulsive /kəmˈpʌlsɪv/, formative /ˈfɔːmətɪv/, intrusive /ɪnˈtɹuːsɪv/, malevolent /məˈlɛvələnt/
- /z/ — sonora, no /s/: appease /əˈpiːz/, pessimism /ˈpɛsɪmɪzəm/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, poison /ˈpɔɪ.zən/
Cómo practicar con este vídeo
- Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
- Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
- Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como temper, annoyance, appease.
¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?
Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.