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this is Damon cart from NLP Gym what our NLP submodalities and why are they
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so you can get these videos on a regular basis there's a term in NLP called sub
modalities and unfortunately a lot of times when people try to explain some
abilities they make it sound very complicated and it ends up confusing
people and they don't understand why some modalities are so important so
let's break it down it's very very simple think of your five senses as
modalities so your sight your hearing your taste your smell your
touch think of all of those as modalities or let's just call those
modalities these are the modalities in which you sense life around you or
information or how you gather or take in information through your five senses so
those five senses will refer to as modalities sub modalities or the sub
qualities or the qualities of each modality now I hate to call them sub
because sub makes them sound less important and they're really not it's
just like the difference between your conscious mind or in calling your
unconscious or calling it subconscious people have a sometimes I have a problem
with calling it subconscious because it makes it sound like it's a lesser part
of your mind when in fact that is not true so we can say conscious and
unconscious you can say modality and sub modality just understand that when we
say sub modality it doesn't make it any less important but let's go with sub
modality it is a chunk down or a chunk down of the modality so say you have the
modality of your sight so the sub modality would be the size of the image
the colors whether it's black and white or color the richness of the colors the
dimness of the picture the positioning of the picture so when I imagine
something and some people say oh I don't and
see images you do if you didn't see images you wouldn't be able to recognize
people you know there's a lot of other reasons why you see images but that's an
easy one so think about how do you recognize someone you know what you have
an image in your mind of that person and say you go to an airport because you're
picking up your friend well how would you know your friend from everyone else
you have an image in your mind and you're scanning people and anyone who
fits that image lines up and you say oh I recognize there's my friend and
sometimes even if you see a person who looks similar to your friend you for a
moment think that they might be them and then once you really line up the image
that's in your mind with the image of who you're seeing or the person you're
seeing in front of you you might realize well no this person looks like my friend
but is not my friend so you see images in your mind and that
would be the modality the sub modality like I said would be all the qualities
of that image for your hearing the sub modalities would be how loud is whatever
it is you're hearing say you're hearing a voice in your mind so the how loud it
is how soft it is how harsh it is what direction it's coming from a lot of
times voices come from over our shoulder but they can come from in front of us or
on the side of us so it'd be position or location and then
it would be the volume would be an example and you can really break this
down into many many categories of sub modalities then for feelings now
feelings are the kinesthetic we have to break down we have to break into two
categories now I've come across people who have had advanced NLP training and
they don't understand this very simple but very important distinction when it
comes to kinesthetic in fact I had taken advanced trainings before I understood
the difference between these two when you understand this this will take a lot
of the confusion out of NLP and the kinesthetic modality so kinesthetic can
be proprioceptive that's how I know where my body is in space so if I close
my eyes I know my hands are right here I don't have to see them to know that
they're right here I have a feeling in my body of where they are tactile is
what I actually feel on my skin and then there's the value
wait of kinaesthetic now this is where people get confused a lot of times
because I'll talk to people no say well I'm very kinesthetic I'm very kinetic
well we're all kinesthetic that's the evaluative feeling part of us this is
the part of us where we see something we hear something and then we say yes I
want to do that or no I don't want to do that that's where it comes from that
evaluative feeling that usually is in the chest of the gut or usually
somewhere in the torso or body area lots of time people will confuse that
kinesthetic with the proprioceptive and tactile so every body is kinesthetic in
the sense that the feeling the evaluative feeling or the emotional
feeling because that's where we make decisions from so we're all kinesthetic
in that way those sub modalities of the kinesthetic can be in either of these
two categories they can be in the evaluative feeling or emotional feeling
because emotions they have a location in your body if you
think about something you feel good about well where are you feeling that in
your body that's a set modality location and that's the same thing for bad
feelings are nervous feelings a lot of times you feel them in the gut if you're
feeling warm and loving and or you're feeling like you're loved you oftentimes
will fill that in the chest so location is a sub modality then also you can take
this even further a lot of times feelings have a temperature to them a
lot of times they have a weight to them feelings always have movement to them a
lot of a lot of times people say well the feeling doesn't have any movement if
you if you really go closely and you you go deep into that you'll see that
feelings do have movement to them now it's the feelings that are normally
negative that have a very sort of static feel to them they're moving but they're
moving either really really slow or they're being compressed or they're
being so suppressed so that you don't feel them and that's why they can feel
really tense and tight and that actually makes it worse
so getting in touch with the sub modalities of the movement of your
feelings can actually free them and that is why the sub modalities are so
important because the sub modalities are the structure and the building blocks of
your experiences I remember you don't
experience the world directly you don't experience objective reality you take in
that information and you interpret it into your internal map and represent it
or represent it internally and then projected back out onto the world so sub
modalities become very very important because some modalities are linked to
the meaning you make of these experiences so how bright a picture is
or how dim a picture is usually says something about how you feel about that
picture big bright colorful pictures that you make in your mind or movies
they don't have to be still pictures usually indicate something you like
something you want to do something you enjoy dim black-and-white pictures or
they don't have to be black and white but like pictures that are muted that
have very dull colors tend to be experiences you don't like you don't
want or you want to move away from or that they're old experiences everything
about the some adalah teas of sounds say you have internal voices what is your
critical voice sound like how loud is it a lot of times they tend to be pretty
loud and they tend to be rather harsh sounding the tone of the voice is
probably very harsh what is it like when you take your critical voice then you
change it to something really high-pitched or something soft and
soothing that's going to change the way that it affects you also you can change
location if a person's critical voice is coming over there right shoulder all
oftentimes ask them to move it to the other side when they do that it
oftentimes changes other sub modalities and it ultimately changes the way that
they experience that voice or the way that they feel about it
location is very powerful if you think about somebody you trust and you make an
image of that person and then you think about a person you don't trust and you
make an image of that person more times than not they're going to be in two
different locations and the reason for that and this is a sub modality the
reason for that is so that because we organize our thinking and our
experiences in our personal space so location is very powerful it's a very
powerful sub modality and when you move that location it will oftentimes change
the way we experience that or there are feelings of it are
our evaluation of it now sometimes you can change us of modality and it won't
have any effect whatsoever for whatever reason the way your mind is coding it
that particular sub modality doesn't have effect on the others some will have
medium effect and then others will have an effect over all of your sub adalah
T's we call these drivers when you change a driver sub modality it tends to
affect the entire experience and other sub modalities and that's when you know
you've tapped into a really powerful sub modality and this is the structure of
your experience and when you change the structure of your experience you
oftentimes will change the evaluation or how you categorize that experience which
then changes the experience overall and this is what I get into with Steve
Andreas's self-concept model it is based on this idea of scope and category scope
is what are you accessing what do you is it something you're seeing here and your
feeling or a combination of the the three or two and then how is it being
represented and then as a result of how it's being represented how do you then
feel about that how do you evaluate that experience another way of saying that is
how do you categorize that experience now when you start realizing how you
create these experiences of your identity this is when you start tapping
into how you've created your identity and when you change that scope or you
change that structure which it was sub modalities fall into that structure or
some modalities are the is a is a way of coding that structure and you start to
change that it will change the experience change how you categorize it
and change how you feel about it this affects how you who you believe you are
and this affects how you feel about yourself which is your self-esteem and
that's why this is so powerful so when you really start to understand sub
modalities you can understand how you structure that experience and then you
can change how you categorize eval or evaluate that experience how you feel
about it and this is everything this is this is what life is about life is about
an experience it's there's not an objective reality about your experience
of life are you having a good experience of life or a bad experience of life are
you having a successful experience of life are you having an experience of
life that makes you happy or not happy it is in the structure of how you're
doing that this is why you can't be talked into being happy or you can't be
persuaded into being happy or it doesn't matter how much someone tells you they
they love you and they care about you and you're a wonderful human being you
still feel bad about yourself because you can't go straight to the category
you can't go straight to the evaluation you have to check in with the structure
of that experience this structure of that experience holds the key to
changing the experience and sub modalities are one of the strongest most
powerful elements of structure that was discovered in NLP so when you change
some modalities it has a powerful effect on how you experience something and
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