Instant Change Like "A Piece Of Cake"

Robert Dilts in this week's NLP World Health training program reminded us that the basics equation of NLP is very simple:

Present State + Added Resources -> Desired State

Tim Hallbom and Suzi Smith introduced a lovely NLP technique in the program that wasn't in the manual and perfectly illustrates this process. They called it "A Piece of Cake" because it was changing a negative bodily symptom very simply, and features the use of submodality elicitation and mapping-over.

Briefly: Use floor anchors. Starting with a physical symptom step on anchor, fully describe it, stepping out of that place on the floor step into another and fully describe an incident of self-healing (a bruise that healed, a scrape or sprain etc.) and do this three times. Note your physiology in all states. Anchor each positive resource physiology in the resource state and stack these anchors for each of three self-healing incidents. Take these stacked anchors back to the Symptom anchor and release. Note what changes.

The below diagram is for my NLP family and training buddies but if you're interested, I will be featuring this process in a forthcoming class...stay tuned for details! Click on the diagram for a larger, readable copy: