NLP Submodalities and Rapid Change

What are Submodalities?

In order to really grasp the concept of submodalities, I suppose it would be important to start from the beginning and explain what modalities mean in NLP.

Modalities: Is the way we experience our world. People accomplish this through our senses:
1. Sight
2. Sound
3. Touch
4. Taste
5. Smell

Those senses get filtered through our internal representation

1. Sight = Visual (V)
2. Sound= Auditory (A)
3. Touch = Kinesthetic (K)
4. Taste = Gustatory (G)
5. Smell= Olfactory (O)

For example, if a person was thinking about a particular food, like mom's apple pie, they might make a picture of a warm pie with ice cream(visual), they might be able to smell the aroma of the apple pie(Olfactory), and they might even be able to imagine taking that first bite (Gustatory) and hearing there mom say "be careful it's hot!" (Auditory). This is how people classify there experience in there mind, which is called internal representations.

Therefore, a submodality is all the little distinction of a particular sense. For instance, a visual (V) submodality would include:

1. Location
2. Brightness
3. Color/black and white
4. Movie/Still
5. Focus/Defocused

Auditory (A):

1. Location
2. Volume
3. Speed
4. Tone
5. Voice

Kinesthetic (K):

1. Location
2. Shape
3. Size
4. Density
5. Temperature

These submodalities can drastically change a persons experience of a situation. For instance, what if a person does not like there moms apple pie. Then maybe they imagine there experience like this:

1. They picture the apple pie as small, burnt, defocused, and far away in the distance.
2. They hear there mom voice as loud, right in there ear, with a smokers type graininess.
3. They the apple pie as dry, burnt, really thin, rotten apples, and burning hot.

This is how people experience there world. My Mentor, Mark Sheppard of ModernJedi.com stated that submodalities are the differences that make a difference in NLP.

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