Obliterate Fears In 30 Minutes

I said I was going to cover off the NLP technique of anchoring today but I’ve changed my mind and I’m going to look at submodalities instead. It’s my wedding anniversary today and if I want to make it to the next one I’d better not spend 2 hours writing a post. Instead, I’m replicating part of an e-book I recently wrote called ‘Know Yourself – Change Yourself’ You can download the book for free here (scroll down and it’s the 3rd product).

 If I asked you to tell me about a fabulous vacation you had recently taken there are certain internal processes that you would go through before you responded. These usually happen incredibly quickly, in fact so quickly that it’s doubtful you’d even notice them at a conscious level. Here’s what would happen. You would form a picture in your mind, hear a voice or maybe even voices in your head and then get a lovely feeling associated with whatever it was you had been up to. You may also recreate any tastes and smells that you had associated with your great time. You’d probably be answering me before the feelings had arrived because feelings take longer to generate than pictures and sounds but there’s no real hard and fast rule.

If I then got bored with seeing you so happy and wanted to bring you down a peg or two and said something like “Yeh, yeh, yeh, that’s great, but tell me again about how your hamster got run over by that garbage truck just after fighting back from major paw surgery.”

Your state would change at a lightening rate and you’d probably come crashing down to earth faster than the guy that went parachuting with his buddies back pack on.

In a split second you’d probably visualize Hammy splattered on the tarmac with his little paw still bandaged up, hear your own tearful voice inside your head and feel that knot of anger in your stomach aimed toward the truck driver that hasn’t even noticed the hamster carnage he has just caused.

The reality is that nothing really happened in either of those events, they were both just memories but your unconscious was fooled easier than a blind man on Candid Camera/Punk’d/Trigger Happy TV* (delete where applicable depending on your age and country you live in).

Here is the really brilliant and useful bit with this. If you checked in to see what your pictures looked like and hear the voices and felt the feelings etc you would see some fundamental differences. I don’t mean the obvious ones like warm beach and a beer versus dead hamster and soothing voice saying “Ahh this is the life” versus hysterical rant and screaming “Get out of your truck you ****** rodent murdering ******* cuz I’m going to ****** kill you” I mean stuff much better than that.

This article is a huge tease because I’m going to kill it here and now, other than to say I regularly use submodalities with people to help them remove fears and also to build confidence very quickly. If you’d like to know how in more detail and use them on yourself or a friend, then download the e-book and get the whole enchilada. Not only that, but it will also show you how to check out your values and get an understanding of why they are critically important and help you change any self-limiting beliefs that may be holding you back in life. Not bad for free, huh?

Next Up: Anchoring - no honestly it will be.

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