Sub-Modality Details

Sub-Modalities

Information about information

By way of illustration, let's take an example. Make a movie of you going over the first, and highest drop of a roller-coaster ride. Actually, make two movies. In the first movie, see yourself in the distance, riding in the roller-coaster as it goes over that first big drop. Go ahead, do that now...

Make the next movie as if you were in one of the roller coaster cars right now. See what you would see out of your own eyes; hear the clank, clank, clank of the gears; and feel the final upward lurches just before the top... followed by the seat suddenly dropping out from under you. Do that now.

So, which movie has more emotion associated with it? If you can't tell any difference, go back and do each again taking your time to "get into" each. If you still can't tell any difference, take your pulse and have someone get you to an emergency room!

Sub-modalities:
Experience Intensity
An illustration
The Neutralizer

Elsewhere in the Library:
Enter
Introduction
First Aid: Individuals
BluesBusters
Anxiety Relief
First Aid:Relationships
The Right Stuff
Tool Room I
Parting Thoughts

How are you wired?

Many people are wired so that when they associate into a memory (i.e., see what they would see if they where there, hear what they would hear, etc.), they also experience much of the emotion that accompanied the remembered event. On the other hand, if we dissociate from ourselves, by seeing ourselves in the movie of the event, we tend to NOT experience the emotion that accompanied the event. You may, or may not, be like others. Check out the associated/dissociated sub-modality distinction for yourself and find out how you are wired. Once you have done that, you'll be in a position to either amplify or diminish the feelings that go along with your memories. As you might imagine, there are a great many possible sub-modality distinctions. If you're interested, you can explore a few more visual sub-modalities here.
A sample application: The Neutralizer. >>