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Representational Systems & Submodalities
The representational systems in NLP are simply enough the five senses. We represent the world using the visual (images), auditory (sounds), Kinaesthetic (touch and internal feelings), gustatory (tastes) and olfactory (smells) senses. We picture ourselves lying on a sunny beach, hear the voice of the lifeguard yelling, feel the sensation only sand in your bathing suit can produce, taste the soggy egg salad sandwiches we brought for lunch and smell the aroma of the surf wafting into our nostrils. Our thinking consists of these images, sounds, feelings and usually to a lesser extent, tastes and smells. The entirety of our experiences has been recreated through these senses in our memories and governs our capabilities and beliefs.
Curiously enough, our predominant representational system in a given context often shows up in our language, for example: Responding to the statement: I think the Jensen project is going well.
Visual: Yep, looks
good to me.
Auditory: I have been hearing good things about it.
Kinaesthetic: I feel good about the whole project.
Olfactory: Smells like a winner to me.
Gustatory: I can taste the victory.
It's no wonder smells and tastes are less commonly used considering how hard they are to work into conversation.
The qualities or attributes of the representations you make using your five senses are submodalities. For example, make a picture of someone you love in your mind. Now, make the colours more intense and notice how it affects you response to it. Now make it black and white and notice your response. Return it to its original shades and hue and bring the image closer. Now move it farther out. Return the picture to its original state, noticing how each of those experiments affected your response. Submodalities are the fine-tuning to your representations and can be used to create powerful changes.
The interesting thing
to note here is that once you understand that you create your internal
world, you realize you can change it.
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For more fantastic information on NLP we recommend the following:
Introducing NLP– Joseph O'Connor/John Seymour
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is one of the fastest growing developments in applied psychology. This handbook describes in simple terms what gifted people do differently, and enables the reader to learn these patterns of excellence. This approach gives the practical skills used by outstanding communicators. Excellent communication is the basis of creating excellent results. The purpose of NLP is to increase personal choice - it provides powerful and elegant tolls for change in a changing world. NLP skills are proving invaluable for personal development and counselling, education and business.
Sue Knight's work was transformed when she began to apply the thinking and skills that constitute NLP. She uses it for herself and for the consultancy and training work that she does..... She wanted to make NLP accessible to people in business without all the jargon that sometimes accompanies this subject. This book is meant as a comprehensive introduction to how NLP can be used in this way by starting with yourself and then exploring how by the changes that you make to yourself you influence everyone around you. You will find many different things under the banner of NLP
Magic in Action – Richard Bandler
I know that the best way to take onboard how powerful NLP can be is to see it (and hear, and feel, and taste, and smell it!) in action, and this is an opportunity to do just that.
If you like to be amazed and dazzled by the superhuman communication skills of Mr. Bandler then buy this book, read it and say 'wow' to yourself a lot.
Time for a Change – Richard Bandler
This book is fantastic... it is extremely easy to read, understand and even use... He has written it in the way he teaches. It is a lot of fun to read, things that I used to find confusing suddenly become clear... didn't it? If you, like me, want to learn more about state of the art hypnosis and belief work this is the book for you
Structure of Magic – Richard Bandler
This is one of the standard indispensable NLP texts. It mostly deals with the relationship between linguistics and perceptions and explains the Meta Model in detail. Some useful transcripts of therapy sessions are also included.
What you REALLY have to know before reading this book is what NLP is. It's an AMAZING book for those like me who want to know what's "behind" the magic of NLP shown in the previous book. It's a little difficult to manage for those who do not know the basis, but I think you can manage it anyway! Great content, great author, Great (as always) style.
Other Inspiring Breakthrough pages within this Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) section;
Introduction
to NLP
Presuppositions
Representational Systems & Submodalities
Meta-Model
Sensory Acuity
Milton-Model
Metaprograms
Individual
Performance Improvement
Team Performance
Improvement
Accelerated
Learning
Business
Growth Performance
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