NLP Email Training 26

Quote

“Man is a filter for the truth, for it sticks to him but never penetrates.”

Submodalities (2)

Last week we already let positive and negative images arise in our mind's eye. We shrank the unpleasant images. In the next step, we will destroy the unpleasant images to get rid of them forever! We will let the positive images grow larger and shoot our success film.

Exercise for this week

a) Now we want to destroy unpleasant images!
Is there something that burdens you? Have you learned everything good there is to learn from this situation? Then let's go: Imagine the unpleasant image.

1) Imagine you would set the image on fire. Hold an imaginary lighter under the image and picture how the image slowly shrinks, turns black, and crumbles to ash.

2) Imagine the image is made of watercolors and you pour water over it with a watering can – all the colors run together and create a colorful something, on which nothing can be recognized anymore.

3) Imagine the image as a glass mirror. Then take a hammer and destroy the image – it shatters into a thousand pieces. You take a shovel and broom, sweep everything together, and dispose of it in the special waste.

b) Today, shoot your success film!
Imagine you have just achieved an important goal. You are happy and cheering. Now enhance this film with a few tricks from Hollywood. Change the perspective, add music, alter the color intensity – until it feels really good. You are the director of your life. You write the roles, you give yourself applause, you play the lead role in your theater.

c) Contrast method
Imagine something you are very motivated about and write down all the submodalities related to it. Then imagine something you cannot motivate yourself for and determine the submodalities here as well. Now compare the differences and transfer the differences to the unmotivated image. With this method, you can motivate yourself for something you previously had no motivation for. Have fun with it!

Supplementary Links

Audio:
With the submodalities, destroy inner images >>>
How this works is explained in this audio file.

Text:
Disempowerment of inner voices >>>
Here you can read about ways to disempower inner voices.

Metaphor of the Week

Until the soul catches up
It is said that the old apostle John liked to play with his tame partridge. One day a hunter came to him. He was surprised to see that such a respected man as John was simply playing. Could the apostle not spend his time on something much more important than with a partridge?

So he asked John: “Why are you wasting your time playing? Why are you directing your attention to a useless animal?” John looked up in surprise. He could not understand why he should not play with the partridge. And so he said: “Why is the bow in your hand not drawn?”

The hunter replied: “That must not be. A bow loses its tension if it is always drawn. It would then have no strength left when I wanted to shoot an arrow. And so I would, of course, not be able to hit the intended target.”

John then said: “You see, just as you relax your bow again and again, we all need to relax and recover again and again. If I did not relax, for example, by simply playing a little with this – seemingly so useless – animal, then I would soon have no strength left to do all that is necessary. Only in this way can I achieve my goals and do what is truly important.”

Book Recommendation

The fine difference
Authors: Richard Bandler & Will MacDonald

Short Description:
A flexible approach to submodality change patterns requires practice. This book offers plenty of inspiration and detailed instructions. Vivid demonstrations clarify the easily understandable, well-explained exercise steps. Richard Bandler once again makes it clear how much a flexible approach to NLP methods helps to fully exploit the fantastic possibilities and resources of subjective experience – as a basis for effective motivation strategies as well as for the process of transforming confusion into understanding, for the induction of trance states as well as for changing attitudes. A learning book on the submodalities concept: indispensable for NLP training.

Here the book can be ordered: Now on Amazon

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