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What are the five keys to anchoring?

(1) The state being anchored must be intense and fully associated (2) Timing - the anchor must be applied just before the peak of the intense feeling. (3) The stimulus for the anchor must be unique and not a part of the body touched frequently or accidentally. (4) The anchor must be fired the same way each time (5) The number of times that the anchor is stacked

What are the six steps in a six step reframe?

(1). Ask the part if its willing to communicate (2). Set up a signal and have it acknowledge willingness to communicate (3). Discover and acknowledge the benefits provided by that part historically (4). Create some additional choices for the client (5). Check for congruency (6). Future pace and test the integration

List five things to match in getting rapport.

1. Their posture. 2. Their representational system. 3. The tempo and volume that they're speaking with. 4. Matching their breathing. 5. Gestures.

List six modalities of calibration.

1. watching their eyes. 2. watching their facial muscles. 3. observing changes in breathing. 4. change in lower lip size. 5. change in voice tone. 6. changes in colour in their face change.

What is a strategy?

A strategy is how we do what we do, it is the subconscious processes that we go through to do everything that we do with our conscious mind. Whether that is going to work, making a purchasing decision, how we relax etc. They are an internal and external set of experiences which consistently produces a specific outcome for us.

What would you chain resource states?

A technique for when the desired / resource state is significantly different from the present state and the present state is a 'stuck' state.

What is a "pattern interrupt" and when is it useful?

A way of purposely changing someone's behaviour. It's useful when breaking a habit. It is a method of breaking into a pattern which results in unwanted behaviour, whereby the interrupt becomes part of the new pattern producing desired results - like a scratched record, it will never play the same again.

Describe an 'As if' frame and when to use it.

An 'As if' frame is used to open people up to more possibilities and is done by having the other person pretend to believe something different to their actual model of the world.

What is an anchor?

An anchor is created when a stimulus is consistently applied to a client while they are in an intense state, and this anchor, when fired again, causes the client to go into that state whenever the stimulus is re-applied.

What is 'association' useful?

Association is used for when we want the client to feel strongly connected to a pleasant or positive experience or a desirable state.

What is the difference between association and dissociation?

Association is when an experience is experienced in the first person (you are looking though your own eyes) Disassociation is when the experience is experienced in the third person (you see yourself in the picture)

List six (6) auditory sub-modalities.

Auditory (1) Loudness (2) Frequency - high or low pitch (3) Source and direction (4) Timbre (quality) (5) Movement (6) Tempo (speed)

The word "motivate" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Digial

The word "remember" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Digial

The word "sense" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Digial

The word "survey" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Digial

The word "thoughtful" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Digial

The word "hear" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Tonal

The word "music" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Tonal

The word "silent" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Tonal

The word "tell" belongs to which internal representational system?

Auditory Tonal

What are the steps in eliciting a strategy

Can you recall a time when you were totally [ ]'d? Can you recall a specific time? As you go back to that time now, what was the very first thing that caused you to be totally [ ]'d? 1. Was it something you saw, or the way someone looked at you? 2. Was it something you heard, or someone's tone of voice, 3. Was it the touch of someone or something? What was the very first thing that caused you to be totally [ ]'d? After you (saw, heard, felt) that, what was the very next thing that happened as you were totally [ ]'d? 4. Did you picture something in your mind 5. Say something to yourself, or 6. Have a certain feeling or emotion? What was the next thing that happened as you were totally [ ]'d? After you (list previous), did you know that you totally [ ]'d, or did you (loop back through questions 4 - 6.)

Identify the Meta Model violation in: • He makes me happy.

Cause and Effect. How does he cause you to choose to feel happy? How specifically does he make you happy?

Describe how to do a change personal history and tell when to use this technique.

Change personal history is designed to change memories of the past and add resources. Specific steps: (1). Design and install a positive resource anchor. (2). Identify with client a persistent recurring undesirable state, and anchor the state. (3). Fire the undesirable state anchor while you identify and then anchor one event in the client's past where the client experienced the state. (4). Repeat this, anchoring at least two more events. (Anchor as many as necessary.) (5). Make sure that the state associated with the positive resource anchor is greater than the negative state. (6). Fire the first event anchor while holding the resource anchor and have the client relive the event with the new resources. (7). Repeat this for each event that was anchored. (8). Test. (9). Future Pace.

When would it be useful to use the process of collapsing anchors ?

Collapsing anchors help the client eliminate minor negative states, annoyances, irritations etc. It involves stacking a heap of positive anchors on say, one knuckle, then anchoring a single negative state on another knuckle, and firing the stacked positive anchors at the same time as firing the negative anchor. Since our minds can't keep both a positive and a negative thought at the same time, the collapsing anchors releases the client from the negative state associated with the negative experience.

Translate the following sentence into a different representational system • Everyday above ground is a great day! (Auditory Digital)

Every day is beautiful (Visual)

Translate the following sentence into a different representational system • It is so quiet that you can hear a pin drop. (Auditory)

Everything looks completely still (Visual)

The word "putrid" belongs to which internal representational system?

Olfactory

The word "stink" belongs to which internal representational system?

Olfactory

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • Her lips puffed and the muscles on her face tightened.

Sensory based description

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • His pupils dilated.

Sensory based description

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • The volume of his voice was diminished.

Sensory based description

What is meant by "Primary Representational System," and how do you detect it?

The system of senses that a person uses in their day to day language - shows how they learn and communicate. We detect it by listening to the predicates they use, and watching their physiology

Translate the following sentence into a different representational system • Things look good. (Visual)

This feels like it's going to turn out well (Kinesthetic)

Identify the Meta Model violation: • Susan hurt me.

This is a Cause and Effect. How did Susan cause you to choose to feel hurt? How specifically did Susan hurt you?

Identify the Meta Model violation: • It's wrong to cheat.

This is a Lost Performative. Who say's it's wrong to cheat? How do you know it's wrong to cheat?

Identify the Meta Model violation: • Sue loves me.

This is a Mind Read. How do you know that she loves you? What specifically does she do that makes you feel loved?

Identify the Meta Model violation: • I should study harder.

This is a Modal operator of necessity. What prevents you from studying harder? What would happen if you did study harder? What would happen if you didn't?

Identify the Meta Model violation: • I'm angry.

This is a Simple deletion. How specifically are you angry? What are you angry about?

Identify the Meta Model violation: • I regret my decision.

This is a Simple deletion. What specifically do you regret deciding?

Identify the Meta Model violation: • Nobody ever pays any attention to me.

This is a Universal Quantifier. Has no one ever listened to you? Has there been a time when someone did listen to you? What would happen if someone did listen to you?

Describe an 'Ecology' frame and when to use it.

This is about checking whether a person's values are congruent with the new choices that they are making. Where there's a conflict of personal values, we can go back to looking at what the positive intention is of the conflicted values in an effort to generate choices and behaviors that are congruent across all parts.

What is personal power, and how does one get it?

This is the ability to choose how you respond instead of your responses being determined by say circumstances or the actions of others. Our personal power is created by, or denied by, our beliefs.

Describe how you would discover how your client stores time.

To discover how a client stores time you should say something like "lf l were to ask your unconscious mind where your past is, and where your future is, I have an idea that you might say, it's from right to left, or front to back, or up and down or in some direction from you in relation to your body. And it's not your conscious concept that I'm interested in, it's your unconscious. So, if I were to ask your unconscious mind where your past is, what direction would you point to?"

What is the difference between voice tone, tempo and timbre?

Tone is the pitch of the clients voice Tempo is the speed that they're speaking Timbre is the quality of their voice

What are the eye patterns of a normally organized right handed person?

Up and to the right is visual construction. Up and to the left is visual recall. Down and to the right is kinesthetic. Down and to the left is auditory digital. Horizontally left is auditary recall. Horizontally right is auditory construction.

Describe an 'Evidence' frame and when to use it.

Used to find out how a person would determine that they're goals have been achieved or met, and is derived by asking evidencing questions, like," how specifically will that look when you're done?"

Describe a 'Relevancy' frame and when to use it.

Used to keep communications going and is achieved by asking how a person's comments are relevant to the topic being discussed.

What is calibration?

Using your sensory acuity to monitor the minute changes in someone else which would indicate internal processing and change by watching their reactions to your communications.

The word "brilliant" belongs to which internal representational system?

Visual

The word "look" belongs to which internal representational system?

Visual

The word "see" belongs to which internal representational system?

Visual

The word "viewpoint" belongs to which internal representational system?

Visual

The word "watch" belongs to which internal representational system?

Visual

List six (6) visual sub-modalities.

Visual (1) Moving or still (2) Size of picture, panoramic or framed (3) Colour or black and white (4) Brightness (5) Location (up, down, left, right) and distance (6) Clear or Fuzzy

If a person looks up, and to the right, what representational system are they accessing ?

Visual Construction

What are the three processes of internalizing on which the Meta Model is based?

We internalize information by deleting, generalizing, and distorting our experience of reality.

Describe a 'Contrast' frame and when to use it.

When you make a comparison between two thoughts or ideas to draw attention to one of them which might otherwise not have been in consideration.

Translate the following sentence into a different representational system • Your words leave a sour taste in my mouth (Gustatory)

Your words don't make sense to me (Auditory Digital)

What is rapport?

matching or mirroring someone so that they accept, uncritically, the suggestions that you give them

What is the difference between a sub-modality and a predicate?

A predicate is [] A sub-modality is []

Describe the process of Chaining.

(1). Get in rapport. (2). TelI the client what you are about to do:- "In just a moment I am going to do a process called "Chaining Anchors" (explain process), and that that will necessitate that I touch you, is that ok?" (3). Identify the undesirable present state (e.g. procrastination), and decide on the positive / resource end state (e.g. motivation). (4). Design the chain:- Decide what intermediate states are needed to lead to the end state (e.g. "You're procrastinating, what gets you off that state?") (5). Get into each state as you elicit and anchor each state separately, beginning with the present state through to the end state. (You will have to stack all states to get a high intensity.) Make sure that the subject is out of previous state prior to anchoring the next one. (Break state between states, especially between the last one and the first one.) (6). Test each state. Make sure that the client goes into each one. (7). Chain each state together firing #1, and when #1 is at its peak, add #2, and then release #1. When#2 comes to the peak, add#3, then release #2. Add #4, etc in the same way. (This is NOT a collapse because the two states don't peak at the same time.) (8). Test: Fire the present state anchor. Client should end up in the final state. (9). Ask the client, "Now, how do you feel about ...... " e.g.. How do you feel about procrastination? (10). Future Pace: "Can you think of a time in the future which if it had happened in the past you would have ... (e.g. procrastinated) and tell me what happens instead?"

Describe how to remove a phobia? List six (6) visual and six (6) kinesthetic, and (6) auditory sub-modalities.

(1). optional, establish a resource anchor. (2). Acknowledge one-trial learning and the client's ability to learn. (3). Discover the strategy they use for having a phobia. (Using Logical Levels of Therapy) (4). Using Time Line Therapy Techniques, have them go back before the first event. (5). Make a movie screen above the Time Line, and have them watch from the projection booth. (6). Run the movie forward in black and white to the end. (7). Freeze the frame at the end, and white (or black) it out. (8). Have the client associate into the memory, and run it backwards in colour to the beginning. (9). Repeat steps 6 - 8 until the client can't get the feeling back, or until the memory is not accessible. (If you are deleting a memory then give the appropriate instructions.) (10). Check ecology. If necessary, use a swish. Test, and future pace.

Describe how to anchor someone?

(RACE - Recall, Anchor, Change, Evoke) 1. Have the person Recall a past vivid experience. 2. Anchor (provide) a specific stimulus at the peak 3. Change the person's state 4. Evoke the state - set off the anchor to test.

Describe the process of collapse anchors.

1. Get into rapport. 2. Tell the client what you are about to do. 3. Decide on the Positive Resource States and the Negative State to be collapsed. 4. Get into each state before you elicit it in the client. 5. Make sure the client is fully associated, intense and congruent for each state you anchor. 6. Anchor all the positive states in the same place. 7. Anchor the negative state once. 8. Fire all the anchors at the same time until they peak. 9. Release the negative anchor. 10. Hold the positive anchor for 5 seconds more and release. 11. Test 12. Future Pace

List six presuppositions of NLP.

1. People have a different model of the world to ours. 2. People aren't their behaviours. 3. The map is not the territory (that the way we perceive something isn't the way it really is). 4. We are in charge of our minds and therefore our results. 5. People have all the resources they need to change their thinking and their behavior to achieve their goals. 6. Everything we do in NLP should aim to increase a person's choices.

What are the nine keys to achievable outcomes?

1. State the outcome in the positive. 2. Specify current situation 'associated'. 3. Specify outcome, 'disassociated'. 4. Describe what it will be like when you've achieved it. 5. Clarify what the outcome will give you. 6. Clarify if it's for you personally. 7. Fully contextualize every detail. 8. Identify required resources. 9. Identify if it's ecological.

Describe a 'Backtrack' frame and when to use it.

A 'Backtrack frame' is where all the available information is reviewed using the keywords and tonality of the person who brought it up. It's used to help make sure everyone is on the same page in terms of understanding what has been discussed or agreed.

What is the difference between a "Context" and a "Content" reframe?

A context reframe is useful for responding to comparative deletions, and takes a problem experience, and puts it in a context where it's no longer a problem, or where it serves a useful purpose, for example, if the client said '"that would be too expensive", you could reframe with "that would be expensive compared to what?" A content reframe is useful for responding to cause and effect statements, and involves highlighting something about the context that the client hasn't noticed. It maintains the context of the problem experience, but the meaning is changed, so a problem, for example, could be reframed as an opportunity to take positive action, or as a learning opportunity.

What is the "Meta Model"?

A model of language that helps us to recognize distortions, generalizations and deletions in the way that people speak Gives us a framework of questions to push through ambiguities to the precise meaning of what people are saying.

What is a phobia?

A phobia is an intense, irrational, highly associated unpleasant / negative response to an internal representation of an external event.

What is 'disassociation' useful?

Disassociation is when the experience is experienced in the third person (seeing yourself in the picture) and is useful for when you want the client distanced from the experience, free from any pain or stress or where this is another goal you want them to reach for.

What is meant by a "physiology of excellence" and why is it important?

Discovering and modeling excellent behaviour so that we can install it in somebody else

What is the specific intervention for the removal of guilt

First ask the client "Is it all right for your Unconscious Mind for you to release this (negative emotion) today and for you to be aware of it consciously?" Next find the First Event: "What is the root cause of this problem, the first event which, when disconnected, will cause the problem to disappear? If you were to know, was it before, during, or after your birth?" If 'before': "In the womb or before?" If 'in the womb': "What month?" If 'before': "Was it a past life or passed down to you genealogically?" If 'past life': "How many lifetimes ago?" If 'genealogically': "How many generations ago?" If 'after': "If you were to know, what age were you?" Specific steps for intervention of a negative emotion (1) "Just float up above your Time Line, and over the past to Position #I, facing the past, and when you get there, notice the event. Let me know when you're there" (2) "Now, float to Position #2, directly up above the event so you are looking down on the event. Ask your Unconscious Mind what it needs to learn from the event, the learning of which will allow you to let go of the emotions easily and effortlessly. Your Unconscious Mind can preserve the learnings, so that if you need them in the future, they'Il be there. TeII me what the learnings are, Positive, Personal, about your future". When the client has learnings, go to the next step. (3) "Now, float to Position #3, so you are above the event and before the event, and you are looking toward it now. (Make sure you are well before of any the chain of events that led to that event.) And ask yourself, "Now, where are the emotions?" (If the emotion does not disappear, then reframe) (4) "Float down inside the event, to Position #4, looking through your own eyes, and check on the emotions. Are they there? Or have they disappeared! Now!! Good, go back to Position #3" (If the emotion does not disappear, then reframe) (5) "Now, come back to now above your Time Line, only as quickly as you can let go of all the (name the emotion) on the events all the way back to now, assume position #3, with each subsequent event, preserve the learnings, and let go of the (name the emotion) all the way back to now. (When Client is done..) "Float down into now, and come back into the room." (Break State) (6) Test: (Client back at now) "Can you remember any event in the past where you used to be able to feel that old emotion, and go back and notice if you can feel it, or you may find that you cannot. Good, come back to now." (7) Future pace: (Client back at now.) "I want you to go out into the future, to an unspecified time in the future, which if it had happened in the past, you would have felt inappropriate or unwarranted (name the emotion), and notice if you can find that old emotion, or you may find that you cannot. OK?" Good come back to now.

What is the process of intervention for a limiting decision or a negative emotion?

First ask the client "Is it all right for your Unconscious Mind to release this (emotion or limiting decision) today and for you to be aware of it consciously?" Next find the First Event: "What is the root cause of this problem, the first event which, when disconnected, will cause the problem to disappear? If you were to know, was it before, during, or after your birth?" If 'before': "In the womb or before?" If 'in the womb': "What month?" If 'before': "Was it a past life or passed down to you genealogically?" If 'past life': "How many lifetimes ago?" If 'genealogically': "How many generations ago?" If 'after': "If you were to know, what age were you?" Specific steps for intervention of a negative emotion (1). "I'd like to ask your unconscious mind to float up in the air, above your Time Line, into the past and down into the first event." PAUSE. (2). "Notice what emotions are present, and also note if you are aware of the decision that was made there, too." (If they say no, say, "I'd like you to rewind the movie of your memory until you come to the time of the decision ... right now.") (3). "Float back up above the Time Line and go to a position well before the beginning of the event, or any of the chain of events that led to that event and turn and look toward now. Preserve the positive learnings." PAUSE. When the Client has the learnings, ask them "Tell me what they are." If there are no new learnings, go back to the time of the event. (4). "Now, where are the emotions, and the decision, did it disappear, too?" (5). "Float down inside the event, looking through your own eyes, and check on the emotions. Are they there, or have they disappeared! Now!! Good, and the decision too? It's disappeared! Good, come back up to a point before the event." (6). "And come back to now only as quickly as you allow all the events between then and now to re-evaluate themselves in light of your new choices, and let go of all the negative emotions on those events, assume a position before the event, preserve the learnings, let go of the emotions and allow each event to re-evaluate itself all the way back to now. As you come back to now, I'd like your Unconscious Mind to allow you to notice at least 3 (or more) events where you could have (desired decision) but because of the decision which we just deleted, you didn't notice the possibility, and now you can." (Break State) (7). Test "Now, how do you feel about that old decision (or belief)?" (8). Future Pace: "I want you to go out into the future to an unspecified time in the future that would be most appropriate, and imagine a time when something like this could happen again, and how do you react, OK? ... Good, come back to now."

The word "bitter" belongs to which internal representational system?

Gustatory

The word "taste" belongs to which internal representational system?

Gustatory

The word "yummy" belongs to which internal representational system?

Gustatory

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • He looked cold.

Hallucination

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • He showed remorse.

Hallucination

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • She cringed.

Hallucination

Is the following description a Sensory Based (S) description or a Hallucinations (H)? • She was relieved.

Hallucination

What is "overlapping representational systems" and when would you use the pattern?

Helping a client notice something about an experience that they may otherwise be missing through using only their preferred representational system. To do this, begin describing an experience using their preferred representational system, and transition to using the language of another representational system.

What is meant by "Lead Representational System"?

How an individual accesses information internally. It can be detected by looking at eye accessing clues.

The word "feel" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "hard" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "push" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "shocking" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "tension" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "throw" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "tough" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

The word "warm" belongs to which internal representational system?

Kinesthetic

List six (6) kinesthetic sub-modalities.

Kinesthetic (1) Feeling (2) Texture (3) Location (4) Temperature (5) Direction (6) Weight

What is cross over mirroring?

Matching another person's behavior in a different way to them (for example tapping your foot or your finger in time to the speed they're speaking or breathing)

What is "state" and why is it important?

Our emotional state. Created when an external event is run though through our internal processes (deleted, distorted and generalized) and is made into an internal representation of that event. State is important because it determines our actions and responses, which in turn creates our experience of reality.

Translate the following sentence into a different representational system • People don't see me as I see myself. (Visual)

People don't seem to understand me (Auditory Digital)

Translate the following sentence into a different representational system • That sounds like a great idea. (Auditory)

That feels like the right thing to do (Kinesthetic)

What is a "reframe" and when is it useful?

The basis of reframing is to separate intention from behaviour and is useful in drawing the client's attention to another possible meaning to which he might respond differently.

What is the law of requisite variety?

The person who is most willing to change will control the system