NLP Technique - Changing Feelings by Dissociation

 
1. Recall an experience still that causes you sadness and distress. As you remember it, make sure you are re-experiencing it as if it were happening right now. See everything through your own eyes, all the feelings - including the associated emotions - through your own body. Pay particular attention to any sounds; these might include anything that was said by you or any other significant participants in the original scenario. It may also include your own self-talk. Make a mental note of the degree to which this memory still causes you pain.


2. now pretend or imagine you can step back out of the experience so you can see yourself here, as if on a screen. Push the entire away from you, further and further, noticing, as it moves into the distance, how the colours begin to leach away and the detail diminishes. Push it as far away as you need to notice a distinct difference in the way that you feel about the events.

Note : Unless you particularly wish to have the discomfort back, you can leave the experience where it is - or even spin it away into space and have it explode into the sun.

From TRANCE-formation p17

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