Better structure your experiences with submodalities

Would you like to be able to see, hear or feel certain experiences of yours in a new, more positive and more productive light? Would you like to change what aspects of your past mean to you, so that you can be more motivated in your present life? Are there certain locked-in behavioural patterns of yours that you would like to break? Well in that case, you really need to know about submodalities and how they structure our experiences, which are a prominent part of Opt2xl’s (http://www.opt2xl.co.uk) NLP coaching in Birmingham.

There are five basic senses that human beings have: visual, auditory, kinaesthetic, gustatory and olfactory. For the purposes of neuro linguistic programming courses, when we talk about how someone structures their internal experience, memories, these are referred to as representational systems or modalities. So the visual representational system will consist of the pictures that you see in your mind, the auditory consists of the sounds and voices that you can recall, the kinaesthetic  your internal feelings, the gustatory the tastes and olfactory the smells. Finer distinctions can be made within these modalities. You may, for example, say that a picture is black or white, or that it is bright or dim. You could describe a sound as being loud or soft, or coming from a certain direction, while smells can be strong or light and feelings can be in various parts of the body. Called submodalities, such finer distinctions define the qualities of a person’s internal representations.

Submodalities have been known about for centuries, but weren’t always known as submodalities. With the emergence of programmes akin to our own NLP courses in Birmingham, however, various therapies arose based on changing a person’s submodalities. Research within NLP has suggested that these structural elements are generally used by the brain so that it ‘knows’ how it feels about them and what they internally signify. There is a bilateral link, with the emotions that are attached to a certain experience being affected by certain associated submodalities, while if the emotional significance changes, there can also be an effect on specific submodalities.

Many NLP change techniques are based around submodalities, with NLP training in Birmingham that makes use of them in some shape or form potentially helping people to change their diet, stop smoking, enhance motivation, change beliefs and values, address phobias and reduce stress, among many other possibilities.

Changing key submodalities to help address an undesirable behavioural response to a specific stimulus can be done with the Swish Pattern, for example, which begins with the client identifying a specific behaviour that they wish to change and the trigger image that starts the process. They can then identify a new self-image with the desired behaviour(s) that they would like in its place. The person then imagines the trigger image as a large picture in front of them with the new self image inserted as a small dark image in the lower left hand corner. The person then has the new self image explode up big and bight as the trigger image then shrinks and disappears down and to the left. The person continues this process until when they think about the stimulus all they get is the new self image which will drive the new desired behaviour. Amazingly simple and very effective.

Here at Opt2xl (http://www.opt2xl.co.uk), we have extensive expertise in advanced modalities that we can pass onto you as part of your personal and professional development journey. As an NLP practitioner in Birmingham, you can help yourself and others to banish undesired behaviour with the intelligent use of submodalities so that you and they live happier and more productive lives.

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