In many cases of where neuro linguistic programming is taught, most focus on teaching the techniques. For instance, you might learn the technique of curing phobias, building confidence and enhancing good feelings.
I’d like you to consider that NLP is not just about those techniques. Patterns and formats (the step-by-step process of using a technique) do not necessarily add value to you. You might learn a technique only to realize that it falls flat on its face when you can’t apply it to certain people.
It happened when I was testing this out while I was still in the university. someone asked me about “submodalities” and I thought it would be a good way to test submodalities out on this person. It so happened that the way I used it was a technique I had picked up in NLP 101, and it had no effect on that person whatsoever. I had attempted to use a technique called the “Swish Pattern”, which was devised by Richard Bandler several years ago, but it didn’t ‘work’. Or shall I say “I” didn’t work.
You see, I had the mindset that I could treat anything using submodality patterns. However, I...