The tale speaks:
I was admitted to Dr. Phil’s admirer. I think he is a wonderful man, and I wish he had one-tenth the reasoning skills he possesses.
Why? Well, I’ve always been one of those people who grew up never learning from my mistakes. And because of these, I was forced to repeat them, always hoping for another solution (where Dr. Phil was when he needed it).
I could see what everyone else was seeing – they appear to be “red flags” – but to me they appeared like neon “Go” signs and I followed them blindly. Then, as I was surprised (for I was always surprised by the red flags of the event being ignored), I used to be stunned and wonder, out loud – What just happened?
But now, Dr. Phil, I’m learning to know what works and what doesn’t work in life. I am sad and reluctant to say this, I am Dr. Phil’s age, but until the reasoning geniuses learn to take parts of their brains, and transplant them into needy brains, I’ll stick with mine.
Because I’m an avid watcher of his show, I’ve noticed a series of terms he often uses. I call them “Philsms” philosophical bits of wisdom from the mind of Dr. Phil. He kindly offers practical advice to people like him who are in desperate need of guidance.
The following are some of my favorite philisms. One common philism you are likely to hear is:
I’m not going to throw you under the bus.
Sometimes the guests of Dr. Phil seems to be slightly uncomfortable because they know Dr. Seeing Phil on his face, Dr. Phil assures him that he’s not going to throw them under the bus.
Before Dr. Phil arrived, I never thought of losing someone under the bus and I wondered if the bus was moving or sitting still? I often think of a literal translation of any comment for any event and this one stopped me at the beginning.
If he wasn’t going to throw the man’s tires under the bus, was he carrying the luggage in the compartment under the bus? Sometimes his philisms are difficult to understand.
And so, considering every aspect of what they wanted to throw “someone under the bus”, Dr. Phil didn’t have to put guests in harm’s way or harm them.
Another philism was never to be heard;
This is not the front porch.
Even though I’m from Texas, I wasn’t surprised to hear about the rodeos.
Dr. Phil was around. He wrote several books on some of the most important topics, including:
Rescue Your Relationship: A Seven-Step Strategy for Reconnecting with Your Partner
The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom
Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
Real life: Preparing for the most challenging 7 days of your life
and
Life Strategies: Doing What Things, What Doing What
Experience knows how to work and knows the ropes. Let the guests understand that they do not want to pull the wool over this man’s eyes, because even if they succeed, Dr. Phil will still see right through them anyway.
And “I get” (not quite a philism, but it says a lot) – the Lord showed Dr. Phil and I are all along for the ride.
Are they my relatives?
This philosophy must be one of Dr.’s favorite comments. Phil. He almost seizes both arms of the chair, and bends down as he says. I can see this comment hitting their guests in the head without even physically hitting them. I can hear without speaking the words, Arise! Those four words stick in my head – they are related to me – make iron.
and they work. Dr. Phil gets a reaction. People start looking in their seats as he waits for his answer. At the risk of making themselves look stupid, they look almost as if they are saying to themselves, “Quick, come up with someone who says.” And if they do not immediately arrive at something, he adds four more words.
What were you thinking?
The guests stop dead in their tracks and wonder at them, remember what I was thinking? And why can’t I have brain functions like Dr. Phil brain functions? This philism, with “Are you related to me?” philism, requires the guest to answer.
Here the guests begin to explain themselves, and after excuse after excuse, and reason after reason and justification after justification, after backing themselves into a corner, and after their explanations, they did not make any impact on Phil. he asks;
How does this work for you?
He clearly knows, because they are sitting next to each other, that it has not been worked out at all.
The audience, though, because they know this man and his philisms, waited for him to ask this question and wondered why it took him so long to ask it. We, the home viewing audience, have anticipated this problem as well. The payoff is phenomenal. We all, including the guests, laugh and wait for the answer that we know is coming – it isn’t.
Although Dr. Phil often offers insights he gained with an alcoholic father who made his own “isms”, all the philisms you read are just my favorite philisms. But among all the philistines, one in particular stands out as my favorite of all time;
The house must fall soft.
I love the sound of this phrase. Surrounding everything, I think a home should be – a place where children are welcomed and loved, a place where they get to know family members. for it is certain that they are precious and heavy, and when they are prostrated, those loving arms hold them very tenderly and bring them back to their feet. The expression means tenderness and caring, and love.
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