Nlp Practitioner Submodality Distinctions

Most people don't pay close enough attention to submodality distinctions. I feel it's important to highlight this because every time a set of submodalities are elicited, we must be aware of these three elements:

STATE

Every image will carry a state. This state is influenced by the representational systems, the physiology you carry and the words you use. This is often the focus of a change procedure. When you want to feel more motivated, you will be able to assess your level of success if your state has changed.

ENVIRONMENT

Every image will also be contextualized within the environment that carries that image. It's something you can't really change. See, if you elicit two submodality sets, one of procrastination and one of motivation, the one where you were procrastinated could be in the workplace context but the one of motivation could be in a travel context. In such a situation, you have to be aware that the environment remains the same. You want to be able to see the environment through 'different eyes'.

BEHAVIOR

This is something that is often not changed either. Often, the state will drive the behavior. Hence, you need to visualize the desired behavior being carried out after your desired state is intensified. This can be better seen when you explore the Swish Pattern as devised by Richard Bandler.

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