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NLP Techniques - Embedded Commands,  Fast Phobia Cure,  Logical Levels,  Outcomes,  Six step reframing,  Stalking,  Stake Elicitation and anchor,  Swish,  Timeline,  Walking State

The Fast Phobia cure can be used for any real big fear, if the fear can be tested there an then - i.e. purely imagining the situation brings observable manifestations of the fear - so much the better.

The technique contains a number of steps, for example, dissociation, playing an experience backwards, which can be useful in many contexts.

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Fast Phobia Cure - What's important

Remember if it's a really big fear you can continue to dissociate further, for example float above yourself from the gallery and watch yourself from an air vent in the cinema, watching yourself, watching yourself watching the movie.

Sometimes in order to get the logistics right I'll layout the room so a screen or monitor is the cinema screen, a chair represents the front row and another chair represents a chair in the balcony.

Also remember to test thoroughly and to continue as many times as it needs to get an appropriate outcome. You're teaching your client some very useful mental processes.

Fast Phobia Cure - The Technique

1.   Have the subject find their greatest fear in life.

2.  Have them walk into an “imaginary movie theatre” of their mind and sit down in the center of the front row. 

3.  Have them float up out of their body and gently settle in a comfortable seat in the balcony, so they can watch themselves watching the screen. 

4.  Have them put the very beginning of their greatest fear on the screen in the form of a colored slide. Have them run the movie of their greatest fear all the way to end, as they remain in the balcony watching sitting in the front row watching themselves on the screen. 

5.  At the end of the movie, freeze the frame into a slide. Change the picture to black and white and then re-associate fully into the picture on the screen (“walk into the movie). Run the associated movie backwards at triple speed or faster, with circus or cartoon music playing, and have them freeze - frame the image when they get to the beginning of the movie. 

6.  Have them walk out of the still picture and sit back down in the center of the front row of the theater, then have them white out the entire screen.

7.  Repeat steps 3-6 as necessary. Test for the phobic response after each time through. All throughout the process use plenty of presuppositions and Milton model language patterns to reinforce your change work.

Copyright 2004 John La Valle and Richard Bandler and used with their expressed and written permission