Submodalities

With the help of submodalities, you can transform old, gray, and demotivating experiences into vivid, colorful, and empowering experiences. How this works, you will learn here.

The following exercises are about changing inner representations that burden or hinder you.

Before you begin, it makes sense to conduct a Eco-Check to preserve the useful information of the experience. After applying these techniques, amnesia often occurs – this means that you may not remember details later.

You can perform the Eco-Check do it as follows:

• Let the image you want to dissolve appear in your mind's eye.
• Ask yourself the following questions:
  • Should this image draw my attention to something I should do or avoid in the future?
  • Does the image contain an important message for me?
  • If yes: What exactly should I do or refrain from in the future?
  • What does this idea want to tell me?
  • What do I need to change in order to let go of this idea?

Light–Dark

1. Check if the image contains an important message. 2. Imagine the image gradually getting darker – like a screen where you reduce the contrast. You can also make it brighter until you can no longer see it. 3. Push the image to the ground and let it slide into the distance until it becomes a point and disappears.

Shattering a mirror

Imagine that the image you want to get rid of is painted on glass. Hit it with an imaginary hammer and watch it shatter into a thousand tiny pieces. Repeat this until nothing is left. Sweep up the shards and symbolically dispose of them.

Burning images

Imagine you hold a match to the image. It glows, turns black, curls up and crumbles to ash. Or throw it into a fireplace and watch it disappear in the heat. Alternatively, you can imagine a film where a hole is burned into the image – until it completely vanishes.