NLP Compulsion Blowout

It is important to read the NLP Memory Manipulation and NLP Submodalities lessons before attempting this exercise.

So here goes:

Imagine in your mind the thing you have the most difficulty avoiding.

Be that a cigarette, cream cake, bar of chocolate or whatever?

Notice where in space the image is.

Is it in front of you, or to the side?

How far away is it?

How big is the picture?

Now I want you to think of something that you are not compulsive about, and using the following grids, compare their submodalities.

If you would like to print out the grids used in this exercise then refer to the Submodality Worksheet.

Firstly list the visual differences:

Now the Auditory differences:

So now you should have a list of the differences between the two representations.

Notice the submodalities that are different between the two, and play with the submodalities of the compulsive representation, increasing and decreasing them until you work out which submodality has the strongest effect on the compulsiveness.

Now in most NLP techniques and in the submodalities lesson mentioned above you would want to lower the impact of the image. You would normally make the picture smaller, or move it away, but the NLP compulsion blowout doesn't work that way. Surprisingly it works in exactly the opposite way.

So if you discovered that the size of the image is the compulsive element, in the sense that a larger image is more compulsive for you, then in the NLP compulsion blowout you want to make the image larger and larger, very quickly until the image becomes so large that the compulsion just doesn't work any more.

In the NLP compulsion blowout, you're aiming to make the representation completely ridiculous, to the point where a threshold is reached and the compulsion disintegrates. In other words, the image becomes so extreme that it becomes unrealistic and cannot have the same pull that it had on you before. It's like imagining a cake you fancy then making the cake so large that you feel full already.

Obviously if you found a different submodality to size made the most difference, then you must work with that submodality, but size, nearness, and brightness of image are the most likely submodalities.

As with all submodality shifts, repeat the shift several times taking a break in between, and perform the shift as quickly as possible then test your work. Eventually you will think of the compulsion and it will automatically shift and you won't fell compulsive any more.