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Introduction

How often have you heard the phrase, "She has a bright

future" or, "He has a colorful past"? Expressions like these are

more than metaphors. They are precise descriptions of the speaker's

internal thinking, and these descriptions are the key to learning

how to change your own experience in useful ways. For

instance, right now notice how you picture a pleasant future event

in your own life . . . and then brighten that picture and notice

how your feelings change. When you brighten that picture, do

you "look forward" to it more? Most people respond more

strongly to a brighter picture; a few respond more to a dimmer

picture.

Now take a pleasant memory from your past and literally

make the colors stronger and more intense. . . . How does having

a "colorful past" change the intensity of your response to that

memory? If you don't notice a difference in your feelings when

you make your memory more colorful, try seeing that memory in

black and white. As the image loses its color, typically your

response will be weaker.

Another common expression is, "Add a little sparkle to your

life." Think of another pleasant experience, and literally sprinkle

your image of it with little shining points of sparkling light, and

notice how that affects your feeling response. (Television advertisers

and designers of sequined clothing know about this one!)

"Put your past behind you," is common advice for unpleasant

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events. Think of a memory that still makes you feel bad, and

then notice where you see it now, and how far away the picture

is. Probably it's fairly close in front of you. Now take that picture

and physically move it far behind you. How does that change how

you experience that memory?

These are a few very basic examples of the simplicity and

power of the new NLP "Submodalities" patterns developed by

Richard Handler in the last few years. One of the earliest NLP

patterns was the idea of "Modalities" or "Representational Systems."

We think about any experience using sensory system representations—

visual pictures, auditory sounds and kinesthetic feelings.

Most NLP Training during the last ten years has taught a

wide variety of rapid and practical ways to use this knowledge of

modalities to change feelings and behavior. Submodalities are the

smaller elements within each modality. For example, a few of the

visual Submodalities are brightness, color, size, distance, location,

and focus. Knowledge of Submodalities opens up a whole new

realm of change patterns that are even faster, easier, and more

specific.

When we were first introduced to NLP in the fall of 1977,

we set aside most of what we were doing in order to study these

exciting and rapid new ways of changing behavior. At that time

Richard Bandler and John Grinder were collaborating on the

development of this new field, which promised a great deal. NLP

taught how to follow a person's internal process by paying attention

to unconscious eye movements, how to change old unpleasant

feeling responses in minutes, and much more.

Now, seven years later, all those promises and many more

have been kept. All the basic ideas and techniques of NLP have

withstood the test of time, as well as the tougher test of teaching

others how to make practical use of them. NLP has often been

described as the field on the cutting edge of communication and

change.

NLP offers a conceptual understanding that is solidly based

on information science and computer programming, yet rooted

even more thoroughly in the observation of living human experience.

Everything in NLP can be directly verified in your own

experience, or by observing others.

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The new submodality patterns described and taught in this

book are even faster and more powerful ways of creating personal

change than the earlier NLP methods. There are only three major

modalities, but there are many Submodalities within each modality.

Submodalities are literally the ways that our brains sort and code

our experience. The submodality change patterns can be used to

directly change the human software—the ways we think about

and respond to our experiences.

Some critics have contended that NLP is too "cold" and

"technical," and that while it may be successful with simple habits

and phobias, it doesn't deal with "core existential issues." We will

be interested in these critics' responses to the methods for changing

understandings and beliefs demonstrated in chapters 6 and 7.

This book opens a doorway to a practical new way of understanding

how your mind works. More important, this book teaches

specific simple principles that you can use to "run your own brain."

It teaches you how to change your own experience when you're

not pleased with it, and to further enhance your enjoyment when

your life is going well.

Many of us have the ability to take known principles and..... to be continued download to read more

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