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In an earlier Post I said I would share a technique that Anthony Robbins uses for incredible rapid change. It is probably the most powerful NLP technique I have ever encountered of and it is not in any books anywhere. Anyone who tries this will soon understand what I mean.

Trust me, you’ll like it.

If you are a fan of Anthony Robbins you may have already heard him talk about it, but he never really goes into the process in depth. I once heard him mention how he wanted to be able to stop eating and push his plate of food away when he was full. He wanted to feel good about it too.
So he decided to practice these body positions and motions everyday for a week or two, really going through it, feeling it and imagining it over and over, until he started to feel good pushing his plate away when he felt full (he had a limiting belief that he had to always finish the entire plate which led to him having a weight problem).

This process that he went through can be expanded and turned into a really amazing NLP technique using your body’s physiological, & muscle (kinesthetic) memory which is one of most powerful resources you have access to that you can use to effect your mood.

After I found this technique I realized I had been looking for it for a long time. I had always noticed how my body position really had a powerful effect on my mood. I have heard of articles saying how you can smile and you will start to feel good because it is linked so intensely in our brains.

Plus, everyone has a “depressed stance”, and you know if you stand up straight and lift your chin up, you start to a little better.

If you decide you want to get rid of that depressed stance or slouch forever, then you may want to see how easy this technique is so you can expand on it in your own ways to make it the most transformative, customized, and fun as possible for you personally.

Before you do the exercise it is best to understand what sub-modalities are in NLP. They are basically aspects of an experience, state, or feeling (modalities like your five senses, which code experiences).

Each aspect of the experience is a sub-modality. Some of the common ones are: (visual) location, distance, brightness, color, shape, moving or still, 2-d or 3-d, clear or fuzzy,(auditory) volume, pitch, tempo, rhythm, pace, duration, intensity, harmony, looping, fading in and out, moving location, direction, whose voice, one or many, number of sounds,(kinesthetic) sensation, location in the body, movement direction, pressure, intensity, temperature, breathing rate.

There are also sub modalities for smell and taste and other things, but they are less common and you can use what works best for you.

It is probably best to do this alone or with someone you trust so they can help you remember the sub-modalities of the different states. It may be easier to enjoy and get more benefit from the process if you can make wild noises and movements without attracting attention or looking crazy to anyone near you.

First, see if you can pick one recurring, stuck or depressed state that you would rather not have ever again. Make sure it’s one that you would be grateful to get rid of for good. Also, make sure it is just one.

Get back into that state and just pretend it was happening and experience what you would see, hear, feel, smell, & sense if that experience was happening right now.

Really try and get into to it, but remember to do it just enough that you can get lots of sub-modality details; you don’t want to get too much into the bad state.

Collect as many details about the state as you can and write them down so they are easy to remember. The most important part of this technique that you should use if you use no other sub-modalities is the position that your body is in when you are in that state and a sound that is associated with it.

When you are in that bad state, are you slouched, head down, shaky, or tense? If that experience reminds you of a sound you could make, what would it be? Write them down or just remember them.

Make the sound (a sigh, a grunt, a groan, whine, or whimper) and get into the body position and test to make sure you can access the state. Do some jumping jacks to interrupt the state and then test again to be 100% sure, then interrupt again and get ready for the next step.

Now think of a state that you would rather have instead. Do the same process with that state. These might be things like standing up straight, doing a karate or martial arts move, yelling like a ninja, singing a part of a song, lunge, or any body position that you experience that feeling (any good feelings usually work).

Get the details, test, break/interrupt (jumping jacks), retest then break again.

Now for the meat of the process.

You are going to link the two states together so that the stuck state triggers the empowering state. Remember you can use all kinds of states with this technique.

Practice entering into the stuck state the way you regularly would, and right when you start to feel the bad feeling, the very moment you feel it even just the tiniest bit, instantly jump into the good feeling body position and yell or scream out your word. After doing this and having fun with it, you may really begin to see how easy it is to have a lot more fun and effortlessly transform yourself while doing it.

Do this about 3 – 10 times a day (or more) for a week or two and that state will be gone forever, replaced instead with the powerful state that you installed. Choose only one pair of states to work with for each week or two that you do it so that you can solidify the beneficial connections with the utmost strength and focus.

You are building a bridge from your negative state to your positive one, so that when you are in your negative one, your brain already has practiced moving into the positive one which make its super easy to slide into that good feeling state. Sounds great huh?

Throughout the weeks you are doing this technique, notice the times you usually run into those stuck states in your life and just make a note to yourself about how you responded and if there were any changes.

Be patient and let the process work its magic, and you may find, like most people who practice this technique daily, that it can work powerfully the first time you do it, but it is nothing in comparison to when you stick with the process for the entire two weeks and see how each time you do it, and each day you practice, you can begin to notice your thoughts and feelings around a target subject becoming more and more flexible, fun, and easy to think and feel, effortlessly, the same way as you notice all these things now.

It is good to go back to a neutral sitting or standing position after each time you do the shift so that it will link 3 states together like this. Negative -> Positive -> Neutral. Let the good feeling linger and enjoy it as you move into the neutral one again.

Here is a quick recap & a hint:

1) Identify Stuck State. Enter it & Name the emotion or feeling in own words.

2) Get Sub-modality details, body position, & sound for state.

Test, break, retest, & break.

3) Identify Empowered State. Enter it & Name the emotion or feeling.

4) Get Sub-modality details, body position, & sound for state.

Test, break, retest, & break.

5)(Swish) Enter stuck state using your body position & a sound. Right when you start to feel the smallest bit of that stuck state, instantly swish/shift/jump into that other state’s body position and make the good feeling sound and then let the good feeling linger and enjoy it as you move into the neutral one again at just the right speed for you.

6) Repeat Swish for at least 3 – 10 times a day for one or two weeks after the first time.

7) After the week or weeks go by, test to make sure you cannot get back into that state & keep track of what happens during the experiences that normally trigger it.

Repeat whole process with new states whenever you suddenly feel the urge to.
It takes less than five minutes to do once you get the hang of it.

Hints:
#1 Take time to give accurate names to your states.

#2 Make sure you are doing the body positions of when you are IN the state and NOT trying to get out of it. Sometime people associate the thing they do to try and get out of the state with the actual state. But we are looking, just, for the original state, like when you aren’t trying to get away from it, you are just experiencing it fully.

#3 Once you get the hang out it you can link these together to a greater extent and create a routine like thing to build the connections in your brain to make it happen easier. Link states like this: Negative -> happy -> excited about being able to move to being happy -> joyful about being excited about being happy -> amazed about how you are joyful about being excited about being happy. Then have that whole sequence of good states triggered by the first negative state. Doing stuff like this will ensure that the negative is wiped out & gone. In theory, you could pile as many good feelings as you want on top of a negative one and bury it as deep as you like.
Experiment!

If you don’t have any ideas, imagine moving from the state of being unsure whether this would work for you, to the state of being completely and utterly sure that you can use this powerful technique and achieve incredible & rapid results/benefits that last for ever.

Or, maybe move from the state of being scared you will not have enough time to do the exercises easily each day, to the state of being excited about finding a way to do them because you know it’s going to make positive, powerful, and lasting changes for you easily.

I hope you love this technique as much as I do, and that it helps you as much as it helped me and many others.
May your god go with you.
-Nate