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and as many other descriptions of ,, Same thing with a candle lit the image as you or they could think dinner - it hardly increases your of (stay away from the content of ety feelings to put it under a the image), “The called these bank of arc lights; a fear of the elements Submodalitics and found dark doesn't gc any stronger when some very interesting cffects YOu turn the lights on. These are associated with them. Thev found Tat though and when you that if one or more of these think about them they obviously submodalities are changed then the make sense. The important thing impact of the image is changed as_ is to find which ones work for you. well. Some submodalities will have little or no effect for different people; find the ones that are Try this now: powerful for you and you can save Close your eyes and think ofa 4 fortune in psychotherapy bills. Sore ae! Inneant avnarianaa nanea far A primarily kinesthetic (feeling) person will say: Feel, touch, warm, tight, tense, hurt, relaxed, tremble, penetrate, stiff, creeps, etc. kinesthetic Any given experience for a person may of course have more than one Rep system component, though usually one of the systems will predominate. For a different experience a different Rep system may be used, although we tend to stick with our favourites. It is not uncommon either to find one Representational System complete- ly absent from a_ person's consciousness. Whenever this person does experience this Re system, they usually endow it with mystical: or magical properties as they are not used to it. Imagine a blind man seeing or a deaf person hearing and witness the trauma and confusion of a lot of men in this culture coming to grips with their feelings for the first time. So we have these three Representational Systems = which are all quite valid and accurate. The problems arise however, when one system is confused with another. To put it more simply, when one person is ae about their feelings it isn't generally effective to try to get them to take a different point of view. If you do find yourself getting nowhere like this, stop and try to find what system the persen is Try this now: Close your eyes and think of a very pleasant experience, pause for a moment to reconnect with it and be sure you see what you saw at the time that pleasant experience happened. Be there. As you look at it, change the brightness and notice how your feelings change in response. Submodalities also apply to the other Representational Systems and so here is an incomplete list: Visual - Colour, — brightness, saturation, shape, size, location. Auditory - Pitch, volume, timbre, atterning, speed. inesthetic - Location, form, texture, pressure, temperature. These can all be used in much the same way as! described in the visual example earlier. 0, we have Representational Systems, V.A.K., the three ways we store our experience in our memory. These three systems can each be broken down into descriptive qualities or sub-modalities. These are the smallest units of information that we use, the building blocks of experience. If you change significant submodalities you will change all other chunk sizes that rest upon them and hence the experience itself. There is a lot more to N.LP., but Representational Systems and Submodalities form a good basis for it. If you wish to know more there are some good books around by Richard Bandler and John rinder; start with "Frogs into Princes”. form, First make it brighter - then dimmer until it's nearly gone - then brighter again. There are always exceptions, but for most of you making the picture brighter will increase the intensity of your feelings and making it dimmer will decrease the intensity of feelings. Now think of an unpleasant memory, something that makes you feel bad. Make the picture dimmer, leave it like that. If you turn it down enough it won't bother you atall. Seems simple doesn't it. This was with the brightness submodality and the same can be done with the others. Try it if you wish with size, it works just as well. There are exceptions of course {aren't there always). If you increase the brightness so that it washes out the details of the content, that will reduce the intensity of feelings, not increase them. . mainly using. If you can, join them in that system (use the same words) and you can often resolve what at first seemed an impasse very quickly. Richard and John took Rep Systems even further into the structure of experience and started to look at different aspects of experience. To take the visual system for example; the size of the picture, whether it was colour or black and white, movie or still, brightness, location, hue, clarity an 17 Nexus New Times