NLP Techniques

FAST PHOBIA CURE:
AUDITORY SCRAMBLE:
Imagine sitting in the front row of a theatre.
This is useful for times you feel uptight.
Float up and watch yourself watching the screen.
Using the form 'if x does y I feel z'
Put on the screen a depiction of your greatest fear.
place the emphasis on each word in turn,
Run the movie and freeze-frame at the end.
then do faster and faster a few times.
Change the picture from colour to black and white. Re-calibrate feelings. The negative should be
Walk into movie.
well and truly disrupted.
Re-run the movie many times with cartoon music.
Walk out of movie. White out the screen.
Ditching
Future pace and repeat, as necessary.
common
Re-enforce with use of Milton Model.
SWISH AWAY BAD HABITS:
Make a large colour image of
the compulsion you want to get rid of.
Make a small black and white image
of the way you want to be.
Put the two images side by side.
Now quickly push both images to infinity
swap them over and return,
while making a swish noise.
Repeat 4-5 times as quickly as possible.
JETTISONING Cpt PARANOIA:
If your internal dialogue says things
that you wouldn't allow a real person to say,
you need to treat it accordingly.
Give it a chance to change tone
and talk to you in a reasonable way,
at an appropriate time. If it still bugs you,
use the hands/legs cross technique,
that promotes hemispheric balance and
is disruptive to the voice. If it still goes on:
Find out where the critical voice is in your head.
Begin to change the voice into a comic tone.
Imagine moving the voice onto your shoulder,
then away to your hand.
Now chuck it, or drop- kick it over the horizon.
(Repeat the mantra: ‘shut the *** up)’
Communication
Issues, Hints
and Tricks
CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE:
A visualisation to protect and
energise you and
your performance.
RAPPORT and PACING:
Match body movement, tonality,
word usage and communication content.
CALIBRATION:
Check what different representational systems
are doing as you talk with someone.
LEADING:
Get people into 'state' by going there first:
through story or re-living an experience.
META-MODEL:
Use of language that helps
define and refine models.
MILTON-MODEL:
Use of language to
obscure and hypnotise.
STEPPING STONES:
Link people from a start state
to the state in which you want them.
ANCHORS:
Touch or analogue markers
that recreate an emotional state.
(NB: Anchors can be stacked).
FUTURE PACING:
Try out a new pattern of thinking
in an imagined future,
and note any reactions.
DOUBLE
Decide if the new pattern of thinking
INDUCTION:
is helpful to you.
Overload the brain:
Left ear logical and
CLASSIC QUESTIONS:
Right ear child-like.
How would you know if...?
If you are unable to imagine X,
what do you think it would be like
if you were able to imagine X?
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things
that get
in the
way...
6-STEP REFRAMING:
SWISH AWAY BAD MEMORIES:
Identify the name of the problematic 'part'.
Imagine a wire from past to future.
Establish communication and elicit the intention.
Different coloured beads
Look for alternate behaviours to fit the intention.
for good and bad events.
Check the 'part' is 'happy’.
Swish the bad events off.
Check other parts are 'happy'.
Make the good events glow.
For times when
Ecology check and
VISUAL SQUASH:
the past affects
future pace.
Identify the parts in conflict.
the present
Make a visual image of each part
with one in each hand.
or future...
Find out how each part
could complement the other.
Create a third, central image.
Bring both hands together, quickly,
while imagining the two original parts merging.
NB: Speed is of the essence in a swish/squash.
Also. Ideas don’t move across the mid-line,
they need to go to the distance and back again...
TARGETING THE SUBCONSCIOUS:
Have an image of what you want
and an image of where you are.
Fix the image of what you want.
Link the two images
using a rubber band.
Let go of the 'now' and
see ‘now’ snap into the 'future'.
Make an appropriate sound.
HEXAGON GOAL SETTING:
Generate four long term goals.
Elicit the states and behaviours
you will have when you achieve those goals.
Pair off the goals and generate an image
which epitomises achievement for each ‘pair’.
Now take the two new images and generate a new image
designed to summarise and synthesise all your goals
What feelings are associated with this new image?
You may find that you feel differently
about your goals. If necessary,
re-think and re-define those goals.
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CHANGING PERSONAL HISTORY:
Access a problematic feeling.
Calibrate and anchor.
Search back to find 2-6 other times
when you have felt like this.
Go back to just before each experience
and imagine you had access to whatever
you needed to solve each problem.
Play around with images
so that modalities are
‘vivid’ for solutions and
‘black-white’
for problems.
Anchor each ‘problem’
and each ‘solution’.
Fire off all the
problem and
solution anchors.
TESTING CONVICTION:
Locate (in space) an image for a time you made a good decision.
Now locate the image for a time you made a poor decision.
Find a decision you are in the process of making.
Where does the new decision feel most at home?
Get an observer to calibrate
your non-verbal responses.
Knowing
what you want
to achieve...
STRATEGIES and TOTEs:
Sometimes your decision-making
is better than at other times.
Compare and contrast times
you made good and bad decisions.
What are the modalities, loops and triggers?
Could they be more elegant?
CLEARING THE WAY:
Generate images of the future and images representing desires.
Check that your images of desire actually appear on your time-line
and not off to one side.
Check that the images are substantial and not ‘weedy’.
Perhaps checkout at what ‘date’ on the time-line
the goals begins to feel most comfortable.
Re-evaluating
the past...
REALISING COMPETENCY:
Scan back over time and list at least
150 things you have achieved or done well.
Basically include anything
you would congratulate someone else for achieving.
From a toddler learning to walk and talk,
to a child learning to write at school,
to sporting success,
to a time you did something
someone else appreciated.
GO BACK AND HELP YOURSELF:
Review and re-experience successes.
Note the modalities and thought processes
associated with times you have done well.
Go back to one of the past failures.
See yourself and imagine comforting yourself,
Imagine how the situation might be changed,
or how the lessons learned have since helped you.
Repeat the exercise with the other two situations.
Review the new resources that you now have access to.
Finally, bring all the resources back to the present.
Knowing yourself,
recreating states
that work
for you...
SUCCESSFUL THINKING:
Identify times you were successful
in a skill you are seeking to develop
Now identify the ways you were thinking
in those times. Play with the sense modalities.
See if you can improve
on your own ‘best practise’.
Anchor for future reference.
EFFECTIVE LEARNING:
Sometimes in the past
you have found it easy to learn.
Think back to those times,
when you absorbed information quickly.
Use your new insights to bring new resources
to times you found it more difficult to learn.
Future pace.
Decide how you might
learn more effectively in the future.
(NB: for many people,
spelling is best done visually,
multiplication is essentially kinesthetic,
memory is enhanced by visual ‘storylines’).
CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS:
Compare and contrast successful
and less successful experiences ascertaining the modalities
associated with your experience.
Re-access times you were less successful,
using the modalities and resources
from times you did well.
Seek to derive new resources and insights
from this exercise. Future pace to imagine
how you will use new resources and insights in times to come.
CARROT & STICK MOTIVATION:
Re-experience a time you did whatever it is
AMPLIFYING EMOTION / MOTIVATION:
that you want to improve upon, or change.
Go back to time you felt really motivated
Make the experience vivid, and then fast forward
(or which ever emotion it is you want to practise).
into the future and experience what it will be like
See what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt.
to be the person you will be if you stay as you are.
Amplify each modality. Play round with vividness of colour.
Now imagine making the changes you want to make,
Getting
Try adding or changing aspects of the experience and
and fast forward to experience being the person you
find out what ‘works’. Now re-run the experience to
motivated...
HEALTH MATTERS:
desire to be. Enjoy the future which occurs
the point at which the motivation ‘starts’: find out where it
Health tips...
Re-live times you felt really well.
if you make the changes you desire. Anchor the enjoyment.
starts and where it goes to. If it naturally loops - great.
Magnify and cycle those feelings.
Finally, generate an image that is to act as an icon
If it goes ‘out’ imagine it going out and looping back to the start.
Generate a sliding anchor, designed
for your experience of this exercise, and place it
Once you get a loop that works for you spin it faster and faster.
to amplify your bodies natural
in front of you on an appropriate place on your time line.
Add colour. Add sound. Generate a sliding anchor associated with
abilities to be fit and healthy.
MODELLING EXCELLENCE:
an ability to increase the state. Make it as intense as you can.
(Put
in a self-limiter on the switch
Imagine yourself, an opponent or an expert
that activates at optimal levels)
performing at their best. Visualise what they
do from multiple angles. Play with modalities.
Performing to extremes...
HEADACHE REMOVER:
USING SOUND / SMELL:
THE LOOK:
Then imagine stepping into the ‘models’ body
Calibrate. Delineate headache
Re-access a ‘performance’ state.
The focussed state which is totally directed
so that you experience what they experience.
in terms of shape, colour, feel,
Try out different music, sounds, smells, (and used by fighters to freak an opponent).
(Make sure that you are clear that you only want
sound, taste, smell.
and find out if any of these
Eyes look through opponent.
to bring back into your life
Change shape etc.
make you feel you could do better
Focus of eyes is ‘experienced’
those aspects of the person
Imagine
a
wire to the horizon.
or make you feel more focussed.
as being about an inch below the actual eye.
that will be of benefit to you
Move pain out of head along wire
Main focus is on ‘hara’
and the goals you want to achieve.
and into the distance. Recalibrate.
REALISING STATE AFFECTS PERF: (physical centre of body,
You do not want any part of the person
(This technique can be adapted
Resist someone trying to
three fingers width below the belly button).
that is incongruent with
to other pain)
move your arm in a ‘normal’ state.
Feel what it is to feel confident and focussed
that which you desire for your own life).
Calibrate.
and cycle the feeling at an appropriate rate
PAIN CONTROL:
ACCESSING
THE
ZONE
or
TIME
DISTORTION:
Get someone to push
In this state, with the tongue on the roof of
Recall a time you were given a pain control drug.
Re-access and re-experience times you were in The Zone, Re-live the experience stimulated by the drug.
while you think of a poor experience.
the mouth just behind the teeth,
or when Time ‘flowed’ at an appropriate speed Make it as vivid as possible. Move the area of numbness
Most people find they loose
internal dialogue is very difficult,
for you to perform to your best. from the area in which you are remembering numbness
much of their strength
so states of flow can be achieved without interruption..
Compare and contrast the modalities you are experiencing to the area in which the pain is currently being experienced.
on the second test.
with
‘normal
state’.
When
you know the modalities, (A common pain drug to emulate is
CENTRED FLOW:
practise accessing them in the present. the local anaesthetic used by dentists)
FEELING AT HOME:
Resist someone pushing on you arm in normal state.
Finally, future pace.
Re-access a place you feel very ‘at home’ and relaxed.
Try to resist as hard as possible. STEPPING INTO GOALS:
When the sense modalities are clear,
Imagining energy flowing into the hara,
access an image of places where you perform.
up the body, and along the arm,
Re-experience the places you perform
while relaxing the arm as much as possible.
through the modalities of being ‘at home’.
Your partner now attempts to push again.
Decide whether feeling ‘at home’ will be useful
Most people find they can hardly feel the push.
in your performance state. Future pace.
Future pace taking this Centred-Flow-State into other activities .
See your goal in the futur, and
a series of images of you ‘between’ now and the future.
Each ‘you’ is more advanced and more able to perform.
As you imagine what it feels like to be the ‘next you’
amplify the experience, until you are so focussed you have to
step into that image. Repeat, each time enhancing performance state.
Key NLP
Interventions