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Welcome

First of all, I want to thank you for being part of

this NLP school that will change the lives of many people
including yours.

In this manual, you will find a quick and practical guide to

the direct application of NLP in a session.

Once again,

Welcome

Alejandro Cañadas
INDEX EXERCISES:

EXERCISE 1: THE ANCHORING

EXERCISE 2: DISSOCIATION ASSOCIATION MODEL

EXERCISE 3: GODIVA CHOCOLATE:

EXERCISE 4: CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE

EXERCISE 5: BEHAVIOR GENERATOR

EXERCISE 6: SWISH TECHNIQUE

EXERCISE 7: CHANGE OF PAST MEMORIES OR CHANGE OF

PERSONAL HISTORY

EXERCISE 8: PROPULSOR TO QUIT BAD HABITS

EXERCISE 9: ROBERT'S BELIEF CHANGE MODEL

DILTS

EXERCISE 10: VISUAL SQUASH

EXERCISE 11: VALUES

EXERCISE 12: TECHNIQUE FOR FEARS, TRAUMAS, AND PHOBIAS

EXERCISE 13: TIMELINE

EXERCISE 14: EXERCISE REINVENTING YOURSELF

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THE ASSUMPTIONS OF NLP

The map is not the territory. Consequently, people respond to the map.
from reality, not to reality itself.

The resources that an individual needs to make a change now

they are inside it.

The result of your communication is the response you receive.

People choose the best option available to them at any moment.

The positive value of an individual remains constant, while the

value and property of application of internal and/or external behavior
is questioned.

Behind every behavior there is a positive intention; and there is some

context in which this behavior is useful and has value.

Feedback vs. Error - All results and behaviors

their achievements, whether they are the desired outcomes for a task or
particular context, as if not.

The element of the system with the greatest flexibility has greater control.
about the rest of the elements.

We are all responsible for our own experience, and the

ability to change the process by which we experience reality,
is often more valuable than changing the content of our
experience of reality.

All the distinctions that human beings are capable of making

about the environment and our behavior, can be
usefully represented through the visual, auditory senses,
kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory.

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NEUROLOGICAL LEVELS NLP

As a widespread belief, most people think that it is

our environment is what determines our lives. They think they are
our circumstances and the environment around us determine it
how we feel and what we think. This is completely false. It
what configures us are our thoughts about what it means
that environment where we find ourselves.

These are the logical levels from lowest to highest transcendence:

Environment: It is the most basic level. It deals with the external environment,
physical environment, the place, the context.

Behavior: It is your actions in that environment, your conduct.

Capabilities: Your behaviors and actions will be

completely influenced by your abilities, because of what you are
capable of doing.

Beliefs: They are generalizations about areas of our lives,

that allow us to understand reality. For example, 'I think that the
Germans are tall
tall Germans and short Germans. Beliefs help us to
to function in our life. On the other hand, we have a belief
when we have a feeling of certainty about a
generalization. For example, if I have the belief that this
The boy is a very good person. I have a feeling of certainty.
when I make that statement.

Values: It's what you value the most that has the most importance.
for you. They are the most pleasurable emotional states that
we value. The compass that leads us to pleasure and satisfaction.

Identity: They are the beliefs we use to define ourselves.

ourselves. It is who you think you are. What you think of yourself
will completely determine how you act. A person
that unconsciously being considered a slacker will act
completely in a different way than another that is considered a
wrestler. It is a very deep level, to which all people ...
we give it maximum importance.

Transpersonal: It is the deepest level and has the most influence.

it has in our thoughts. It is our ultimate purpose of
life in relation to everything else. The mark we want to leave
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in the world, our purpose, our role in the universe and
our spirit.

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SUBMODALITIES IN NLP

One of the most useful things about neuro-linguistic programming is that

It asserts that according to how we imagine things in our minds, in
function of the main channels of representation: visual (color, the
luminosity, the position, the size, etc.), auditory (clarity in sound,
tone, timbre, intensity, etc.) or kinesthetic (texture, weight, temperature,
etc.), generates one emotion or another in us. And this is very powerful because with
With NLP tools, we can learn to control it. We can direct.
how we think and imagine things unconsciously to
to focus them as we are interested and evoke the emotions that are relevant to us
more productive to achieve what we seek.

Submodalities table

Visual submodalities

1. movie/still photo
2. Color / black and white
3. Right/left/center
4. Top/middle/bottom
5. Bright/diffused/dark
Size
7. Proximity
Fast/medium/slow
9. Associated/Disassociated
10. 3d/2d
11. Color particular
12. Point of view
13. Special detail

Auditory submodalities

1. Him/Me / others
2. How do you say
3. Content
4. Volume
5. Tonality
6. Rhythm

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7. Localization
8. Regular/irregular
9. Inflection
10. Certain words
11. Duration

Kinesthetic submodalities

Temperature change
2. Change of texture
3. Rigid / flexible
4. Vibration
5. Pressure
6. Localization of pressure
7. Tension / relaxation
Movement/direction/speed
9. Breathing
10. Peso
11. Stable / intermittent
12. Size / shape change
13. Address
Special inductor
Submodality: Smell and taste.

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HOW TO DO A NLP EXERCISE

To correctly perform a NLP exercise, the first thing you have to do is

Keep in mind that the exercise operates at a light trance level. This
it is a level a little deeper than wakefulness, where you are relaxed, without
a lot of activity in the mind, but completely awake.

Quick tips:

1. Therefore, the first thing you have to do is close your eyes,

relax, take three deep breaths. To connect more,
to eliminate distractions, if the person is very agitated the exercise
the NLP will not be more effective. In summary, to be more in
contact with yourself.

The voice needs to be more measured, grave, and deep.

2. Once the person is relaxed, within the NLP exercise not

you can guide him directly, as it has to be his mind
unconscious one who guides you. And you also have to make it take notice.
in every way.

Therefore, you cannot give very specific orders, but you have to
talk and use words that can fit in their imagination.
Example. Now, you can visualize yourself achieving that goal, press
Attention to the environment, what do you see? The sounds, what do you hear? The
sensations What do you feel? Notice the surroundings... the people... the
place... how you move...

3. Another key is to make use of metaphors. These have the power to

talk to both your conscious and your unconscious. You have to
to train you in the art of making metaphors to be able to guide your student.

Examples of metaphors:
You are going to spin the wheel of activity in your mind until you feel more
and more relaxed.
You can feel that sensation of success more and more as if suddenly
a volcano will erupt.

4. Another very useful pattern is the more the more. It is a pattern of hypnosis.
very used.

It consists of stating that the more you do something, the more it produces a...
effect. Example. The more you listen to my voice, the more relaxed you feel,
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the more relaxed you feel, the more you connect with your mind
unconscious.

5. The fifth key is to use affirmations as if you are doing it.

good.Example.When you notice that it is being associated you can say, "that
yes, very well

I would add a sixth key which would be not to give direct orders, but instead
use words like "can you imagine" instead of imagine. From this
It seems that it is the student who chooses what to imagine and you do not get involved in
conflict with your subconscious mind.

In summary: these are 5 practical keys to doing an exercise of

PNL, although the most important thing is the calibration that is
it comes with practice.

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QUICK SCHEME FOR CONDUCTING A NLP SESSION

steps

1- WE SET A WELL-DEFINED GOAL

2- WE OBSERVE WHERE THE BLOCKAGE IS AND WE CARRY OUT

A NLP TECHNIQUE

3- WE SET A PLAN OF ACTION

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SET THE OBJECTIVE

Before any exercise, we need to set the client's objective.

through powerful questions. First, we set the objective of the process and
subsequently the objective of the session.

Powerful questions achieve three things:

They immediately change the focus where we center our

attention and therefore, both the emotions we experience,
Like the action towards where we are headed.
They train us because they change the resources we have or
we could dispose.
They question our limitations because they open up new ones for us.
possibilities.

Specific:

What do you want to achieve specifically?

In what area of your life do you want to achieve it? In what environment?
What context if you wish, and in which or in which not?
Can you describe it more precisely?
What will you really achieve?
Where yes and where no?
Specific in time When do you want to achieve it?

Positive:

If you could phrase it

in a positive way what would it be
What do you really want?
What do you wish to achieve? What do you hope to accomplish?

Motivator:

On a scale of 0 to 10, how motivated are you?

To what extent is it motivating and challenging for you?
What matters most to you about this goal?
What is the greatest reward?
Who will you be when you have achieved it? What will be different about you?

Achievable by yourself:

To what extent does it depend on you? And to what extent does it not?

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 What are the chances of success?
What control do you have over this objective?

Sensory evidence:

How will you know that you have succeeded?

What will you see, what will you hear, what will you listen to? ... while you are
getting.
What will you see, what will you hear, what will you listen to? ... when you have it
achieved
How will other people notice?

Transcendental

What do you want to achieve (the goal)?

What do you want to...?
What do you want...? Use the answer... Until there is no more
What does achieving it represent for you?

Ecological:

What could be the consequences of achieving it?

What could be the consequences of achieving it for the
people around you?
What could be the consequences of achieving it, in time,
money, opportunity?
Will you have to give up something to achieve it?

To conclude:

So, with everything you've said, what is your goal?

If you could define it in one sentence, what would it be?
What if you could use a metaphor?

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EXERCISE 1: ANCHORING

You hear the summer song from three years ago and suddenly, that song
it takes you and makes you remember: sensations, images, your friends in the
Beach... This is an anchor. That song works as an anchor that
associated with a series of memories and emotions.

Anchoring is an association between a sensory stimulus and a

set of states. An anchor can be a word, a phrase, a
contact or an object. It can be something we see, hear, touch,
we sniff or taste that provide instant access to strong states.
The world is full of anchors: do you like to drive?, the Nazi salute or a
a cologne that instantly reminds you of the boy or girl you like.
If I manage to build an anchor that allows me to access a state
When I need it, I will have the necessary resources to obtain it.
that they want at that moment.

Example: I get very nervous when I have an exam; the

The solution would be to create a safety anchor.

Self-anchoring:
Find a situation in your life that has been rich in
RESOURCES. Take your time to choose the best one.
2. Relive the situation in your mind, recreate yourself. Where are you? What are you doing?
What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel? Look at what you were looking at, feel what

you felt, listen to what you heard.

3. When the experience is at its best, prolong it and enjoy it.
to the maximum.

4. And at the moment of greatest intensity ANCHOR the experience with a

gesture, a movement, a symbol, a word...
5. Open your eyes and observe where you are now.
6. Check if the feeling persists when making the gesture, movement,
symbol, word...

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EXERCISE 2. DISSOCIATION ASSOCIATION MODEL

Practical application of submodalities. Visual association-disassociation

kinesthetic.
Exercise:
Group of two, guide and explorer
2. To carry out this exercise, the explorer seeks an experience of
past that still produces an unpleasant sensation or current pain,
physical or psychological.

3. If you focus on a past experience, the guide helps you.

associating with her by saying: "look at what you were looking at, at that moment,"
listen to what you used to listen to and feel what you used to feel, as if you were
"there". If it is a current pain, ask him to concentrate on it to be able to feel it.
4. In connection with that pain or uncomfortable sensation, the explorer becomes
an image and describe it with submodalities of the three systems (by
example: shape, color, sounds, taste, weight, temperature, etc.). If it is
necessary to complete the description, the guide can use the list of
submodalities. It may also be useful to mention a material from the
what the feeling may be made of.
5. Ask the explorer if he knows the cause of the discomfort. Tell him that,
Although efforts are made to eliminate the effects, it is also very important.
raise awareness of the causes... It is also possible that I could learn something from
that annoyance, or how it occurs... If it's something that repeats in your life
You can ask him what he thinks the 'positive intention' could have been.
that discomfort at its origin, in the first times it began to
to manifest... (what was it for, what was he trying to warn her about, what was he gaining
when they would manifest, etc.)
6. Whatever the outcome of this exploration, tell him to thank his
inner wisdom the information that has been able to raise awareness thanks to this
symptom.
7. After this, the guide directs the explorer to imagine that
he is in a cinema and asks to project that image on a screen that
it is above eye level. Try to get it on the screen
the greatest possible amount of details about the submodalities. Also
can you imagine this object floating in the air or placed on a table or
support.

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8. Now the explorer slowly destroys that image for any
means that can be imagined, using at least two methods
different. That is to say, after using a method that causes a
partial destruction is convenient to use another (and if you want another one too)
until the screen or space is completely clean, without any trace
from the original image of the sensation. If necessary and in the same way,
using different methods, you can make them disappear
auditory and kinesthetic submodalities.
9. When the space is left blank, the explorer draws attention to its
body to check if there is any remaining trace of the original sensation. If
is there any remainder to make a new description, faster than before,
and the steps 7 and 8 are repeated until the sensation disappears for
complete. This process can be repeated once more.
10. If any discomfort remains, this can be done again.
process two or three hours ago.
11. Comment on results.

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EXERCISE 3: GODIVA CHOCOLATE

This exercise consists of creating a 'mix' of anchors. The first one is

about something that is very difficult for you to do, such as: studying, doing
work tasks or even washing the dishes. Anything specific that
it gives us a lot of laziness to do. The second has to be about something that you
It motivates a lot.

This NLP exercise is called that because of the person it was done to.
for the first time, the second anchor that he made, that of motivation, something
what I felt a pleasurable compulsion was to eat Godiva chocolate.

In this exercise, we are transferring feelings, emotions,

visual, auditory, and kinesthetic submodalities of a very
motivating to another completely different one. In this way, we program.
our brain unconsciously.

Another point is that the positive anchor does not have to be something rational that
it is related to an activity in which we need motivation, it can
being something completely irrational, like eating Godiva chocolate or
hanging out with your friends or playing video games. Anything that we
produce great motivation.

Create an intense image in an associated state of something towards which you feel
a pleasurable and positive compulsion to do something that he/she loves to do
that tends to seek to do compulsively. Anchor the state. (Anchoring #

2. Make a switch status

3. Create an image of something you need to do - invoices, documents,
taxes—and what he dislikes, finds boring, or tends to postpone. Visualize it in
Dissociated form (Watching oneself perform these actions). Anchor the
state. (Anchor # 2)
4. Disappear and maintain Anchor # 2 (The image of the situation appears)
what he/she dislikes

5. Release at Anchor #2 and Fire while keeping Anchor #1 (it fades)

the image that disturbs him and the image of the compulsion appears
pleasurable)
6. Alternate both anchors, moving from one to the other increasingly.
quickly
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7. Keep both anchors triggered simultaneously.
8. Check results

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EXERCISE 4: CIRCLE OF EXCELLENCE

One of the most important parts of NLP is the ability

to handle internal states. This implies the ability to select and
maintain types of internal states that promote and sustain a
effective performance. The circle of excellence is one of the processes
fundamentals of NLP to help a person manage their
internal states more intentionally and effectively. Its purpose
it consists of helping to anchor and recover optimal performance states.

1. Choose an internal state that you want to experience more often (for
example: creativity, self-confidence, etc.
2. Identify any occasion when you have experienced this state
fully.
3. Imagine a circle on the ground in front of you or select a color, a
symbol, or any other auditory and/or kinesthetic indication that you can
associate with that state.
4. When you are ready, step into the circle (or into that symbol you have)
(chosen). Relive the experience by fully associating with that state. See
with your own eyes, listen with your own ears, feel with your own
body, experience all the sensations the patterns of breathing,
etc.
5. Take note of the cognitive and behavioral patterns, both
evident as subtle associated with that state. It focuses attention towards
your interior and observe any internal representation, any
characteristic of sensations, breathing patterns, tension
muscular, etc.
6. Expand your experience of that state by amplifying any quality
sensorial (color, movement, brightness, etc.) associates with it including all the
modalities of representation (sight, hearing, sensations, movement,
olfaction and taste

7. Step out of the circle and shake yourself off to detach from that state.

8. Check your particular circle of excellence by entering it and

observing how easily and quickly you can access it again
to that state.
Repeat steps 1 to 7 until you achieve easy and clean access to the
desired state.
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10. Identify some of the situations in which you want to have that state.
Imagine that you can bring your circle of excellence to each one of them and
"futurize" your experience. (Bridge frame to the future)

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EXERCISE 5: BEHAVIOR GENERATOR

Choose someone you want to emulate, someone who has the competencies.
and skills that you desire.
2. See in your mind a movie of this person doing all the
things you would like to carry out.
Watch the movie again and make sure to notice all the nuances
make sure you understand how comfortable and easy it is for you to do
all these things while you do them.
4. Incorporate into yourself the vital force of this person. Observe the color,
movement, sound and vibrations of that vital force.
5. Watch the movie again putting yourself in the protagonist's shoes.
Repeat the actions you witnessed, but perform them with your
essence.
6. Look at yourself a second time performing these actions, giving yourself
counts all the nuances and noticing how comfortable you feel in that
moment, absorb the life force.
Jump
intensely and pleasantly while you perform the scene but now do the
own.
Look how those talents and skills emerge now within yourself

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EXERCISE 6: SWISH TECHNIQUE

This technique takes any undesired behavior and transforms it.

It is useful at any time you want to change behaviors or
unwanted feelings.

The AUTO SWISH

1. Identify the behavior you want to stop having. That answer

unpleasant emotion that you feel in a certain situation and
that you no longer want to feel anymore.

2. Explore it from the VAK. What do you see? What do you hear? What do you feel?
What steps do you take to feel bad? What is it that
unleash that response you can't control (the response can
being unwell, nervous, uncomfortable...even if you don't
say nothing

3. Make sure to find the moment before everything happens. A

moment when you are still fine, you are not upset, you are
calm. This image must have the key that triggers the
action.

4. Take a colorful picture in your mind of that moment just before

that triggers the unpleasant behavior and/or sensation
What do you want to abandon.

5. Now think about how you will feel once you have overcome it.
that behavior, when it has become part of the past, no longer affects you,
It's solved. How different would you see yourself if you no longer had
that behavior?

6. Now make a picture of yourself feeling this good, a picture

That when you see her in your mind, you know that you feel so good.
as you defined in point 5.

This image is not just of the person without smoking, for

example, if not an image dissociated from himself being a type of
different person, more capable, with more options or any other
something that is important to him/her. Make sure that the second
the image produces a strong positive response.

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7. Imagine that you are sitting in front of a screen that has the image
first, the moment before the behavior is triggered
unwanted in full color.
You focus on the image and then place the image.
motivating, the one that makes you feel so good when you have already overcome the
situation, small in the bottom right corner of the other, in
black and white, if you can't see it in black and white, leave it to
color.

8. Now change the images in your mind: the small, the

motivational becomes BIG and IN COLOR covering
completely the first image. With the sound 'swish'. When
you do it, you open your eyes, you close them again and you return to
focus on the first image to be covered again by the
motivational image, which becomes large and in color.

9. Repeat the image change 5 times

10. Now think only about the first photo: if there is any
change (color, light, shape, sharpness, size...) It has worked.
You have just recorded a new response in your mind in front of that.
stimulus. Although if there have been no changes in the photo it does not imply
that it did not work.

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EXERCISE 7: CHANGE OF PAST MEMORIES OR CHANGE OF
PERSONAL HISTORY

Change of Personal History

1. Identify the State-Problem. 'Remember a moment when the
things didn't turn out the way you wanted.
that memory. You still think about that memory from time to time. Do you
Would you like to lose the bad feelings it brings?
2. Access and ANCHOR (#1) the State -Problem. "Do you feel unwell,
What are you thinking at this moment?

3. Identify the resources. "What resource - courage, humor,

gratitude, etc. – would have made it possible for you to have a
much more useful experience in that situation?
4. Access and ANCHOR (# 2) the State-Resource. 'Think for a moment
in which you experienced that resource very intensely.
your client accesses this state, it anchors with a different touch
(ANCLAGE # 2).
5. Switch State.
6. Integration. "You must use this special resource (Trigger
ANCHOR # 2) and return to the problem-state (Trigger ANCHOR # 1).
Find out what happens with this resource, now available for you.
See and hear as it revives ancient memory in a way
new. Take your time, and then come back.
7. Test. Ask the client about that memory. Check
non-verbal responses.

CHANGE OF PAST MEMORIES OR CHANGE OF HISTORY

PERSONAL (ON THE TIMELINE)

1- Find out if it is useful to use the timeline and for what.

negative memory that wants to be worked on.
2- Find the resources in the past where we would have been capable
to approach it differently.

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3-Create an anchor with those resources from the past. 'I frame in that scene'
with your favorite color.
4- Switch state.
5- Check that anchor.
6- Take a meta-position and visualize the timeline.
7- Enter the timeline looking back.
8- Travel through the timeline, little by little with small steps, until
just an instant before the corresponding event occurred
the memory that you are going to rewrite. Take your time.

9-Visualize (disassociated) your younger 'SELF' in that situation.

Merge (associated) with him
10- Trigger the anchor at that precise moment just before the event. Trigger
this resource, while you describe memory in positive terms.
11- Describe the fusion of both moments: feeling of anchoring and
description of the scene.
12-Saying goodbye to your younger self with a warm hug... until
always!!
13- Turn on the timeline and start walking towards the
present.
14- Bridge to the future, shooting the anchor into the future.

15- Return to the present, go into meta-position, trigger the anchor. Take oneself
the time needed to internalize all the events.

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EXERCISE 8: PROPULSOR TO QUIT BAD HABITS

This exercise is very powerful for changing habits or addictions or 'something'.

that one wants to stop doing. It is very similar to the exercise of change of
past memories, but it has the opposite function. If in the change of
memories we worked on something negative and we created a positive anchor,
in this exercise we work on a memory (or several) where it is produced
that addition or bad habit that we want to disappear and we make a
anchoring something that we repel or find very disgusting.
It applies to quitting smoking, stopping watching TV, quitting an addiction to a
unnecessary food, etc.

Exercise:
1- Find out if it is useful to use the timeline and for what.
addiction that one wants to leave and the memory that one wants to work on.

2- Find a situation or something that we totally repel, that gives us

a lot of disgust. E.g. decomposing trash, public bathrooms with
accumulated "gifts", etc.
3-Anchor that 'disgusting' situation. Put a frame around it.
disgusting color and a gesture. (It has to be a light anchor, we don't have
Why insist on this anchoring, since it is a very situation
unpleasant, a few seconds is enough.
4- Switch state.
5- Check that anchor.
6- Take a meta-position and visualize the timeline.
7- Entering the timeline looking back.
8- Travel through the timeline, little by little with small steps, until
just a moment before the corresponding event occurred
the memory you are going to rewrite. Take your time.
9-Visualize (dissociated) your younger 'SELF' in that situation.
Merge (associated) with him
10- Trigger the anchoring at that precise moment just before the event. Trigger
this resource, while you describe the memory, that anchor is triggered
disgusting

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11- Describe the fusion of both moments: feeling of anchoring and
description of the scene. Example: "And you are just about to light your cigarette and
at that very moment, that sensation comes, that fatal smell, everything remains
flooded with that color you hate and at the same time you take another puff of the cigarette...

12- Turn on the timeline and begin to walk towards the

present.
13- Bridge to the future, visualizing how that addiction has already disappeared.

14- Return to the present. Take the necessary time to internalize.

all events.

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EXERCISE 9: ROBERT'S BELIEF CHANGE MODEL
DILTS

Once the limiting belief is detected. Write the answer on a piece of paper
to the following questions.

What facts support this belief?

2. What facts prove the opposite?

3. What is it costing you, what are you paying to have her? (to associate it)
to the pain

What positive intention does that belief have?

5. What is it useful for?

6. In what field is it valid?

7. What standards do I compare it with?

8. What opportunities does it open or close for me?

9. Do you want to keep holding it?

10. How could that belief be different? Create benefit

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EXERCISE 10: VISUAL SQUASH

Integration of polarities: inner reconciliation

We usually tend to believe that people are very consistent.

and very congruent with ourselves, but this is not really the case.

The goal of this exercise is to align parts of oneself that may

to get into conflict in a certain situation.

Let's take sides, as there is always some part left over.

unattended, the problem is that we don't feel well. What we are going
doing with this exercise is to resolve this conflict in a very
little "rational".

Visual squash exercise with regression (Classic)

Create an image of the two conflicting ideas/parts and place one

in each hand. Create a mental image for each one with all
submodalities. Feel the weight of each image in each
hand.
2. What is the positive intention of each element of the conflict?
What are they doing for you, for example, making you feel relaxed?
/ productive, earning more money / enjoying time with
friends? Create an image for each of the intentions
positive and replace the existing images in your hands with
these images. Again feel the weight or lightness of these
images in your hands.
3. Now create a third image, that combines the good intention of
the other two images and imagine it floating over your two hands.
4. Now let your two hands come together and merge (squash) them both.
images in your hands in this third image.
5. When you feel ready to make a change, take your two hands
towards your chest and absorb the third image into your body. Allow
that useful change happens exactly in the right way
for you.
6. When you have fully noticed that change, retrieve the
full awareness.

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Visual squash exercise with regression (expanded)
1. Place two chairs facing each other and another one in the middle, slightly.
Late. Let's sit in one of the chairs that are in front.
With your eyes closed, relaxed, think of a part of you that you
I would like to change... a part that sometimes plays bad tricks on you... that
in some situations it is somewhat inappropriate but you cannot avoid it
Take your time… Comment on it when you have it.
2. Now imagine that in the chair in front of you, there is that part.
you who plays tricks on you. Tell him literally what you think
about her, how do you feel, tell her absolutely everything that bothers you, if it is
necessary to give him a hard time. Also tell him, what you would like that
make that part of you.
3. Change chairs, sit in the chair opposite. Imagine that you are
that part of you that you don't like. Get into its skin.
From that position, imagine that you have 'your other half' in front of you, the
What did everything mentioned above just tell you? Respond to everything it has told you.
said, Is he right? What good thing were you looking for for your other
Share? Reply to him, explain why you act this way.
4. Swap roles, go back to the chair in front, get back into
your skin, and respond to your other part. When you are done, we repeat,
go back to the chair in front, get into their skin, listen to what is ending you
To say and respond. Ask what each party needs and what resources.
each one has something to contribute to the other. Repeat the process 4 or 5 times.
sometimes, as you see necessary. To appreciate the honesty of both parties and
the positive intention of both.
Try to get answers to these questions: What is it that you want?
to achieve? What does it protect you from? What does it want you to see? What has
A positive fact for you? What did you gain when it started to manifest?
5. Sit in the third chair, visualize your two parts sitting in the
two corresponding chairs. Sit down with your legs slightly
separated and place your hands on top with the palms of your hands
extended upwards.
With closed eyes, gradually place each part in an image.
of you in each of your hands, little by little first one of the parts and
after the other. Make sure it describes all the submodalities
keep your attention focused on both hands at the same time.
Stay alert at two.
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Now that you are connected with your Being, do you realize how important it is
What would it mean for you if these two parts could work together, combining
resources, to fully achieve their positive intentions?
6. While you are focused on the two hands, just let your
hands start to turn towards each other. You don't have to do anything,
just let it happen. Now, for both sides to combine their
resources imagine that lights are coming out from one hand to the other and
vice versa. Each light symbolizes one of the resources that both parties
they are sharing or contributing to the other.
7. Subsequently, continue to focus on your two parts and
as you do this, allow them to come closer to each other, while they go
These lights are coming out. Very slowly, there is nothing to be done, just
let it happen. Make the images come together, creating a new one.
image with sounds and sensations included.
8. Describe the image. What do you think and feel about it? Is it consistent?
with your person and wish to incorporate it into your existence?

Bring your hands towards your chest, until you fully integrate it into your
interior. Feel the changes that are happening within you.
Take the time you need.
10. Bridge to the future, 'futurizing' this experience.

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EXERCISE 11: VALUES

It is that which you value most in your life, what is most important to you.
They are the pleasurable emotional states that we value the most. The
a compass that leads us to pleasure and satisfaction we could say that
beliefs lead to this on a small scale and our values to
large scale. Each person has personal values, which are
subjective and unique, for which (as history has shown), the
The human being has been capable of killing and even dying.

The great leaders of our society are people who have made
a life in accordance with their values, which has given them the energy to
achieve everything they have set out to do. In the opposite case, many
people are not happy, they do not feel fulfilled and do not know why. In
many of these cases the reason is that they feel they are not
fulfilling our values. To achieve happiness and feel fulfilled
we must keep our daily lives aligned with
our values.
Our personal values are of utmost importance to each
individual, which also means that if there is something that interferes with
they are going to receive in our brain large doses of strong pain
as a sign that we need to make a change. For example, for a
a person whose main value is freedom and begins a
romantic relationship with another person that somehow prevents you
traveling or organizing activities that for that person translate into
freedom (average values), all of this will generate great discussions or
even a future breakup of the couple. Another example of severe conflict,
could be a person whose first value is action and is
chained to an administrative position.
Unbeknownst to them, another problem that many people have is a
conflict of values, that is, they have several values that are
incompatibles. One of my students had emotion as her primary value.
what entrepreneurship generated for him and thirdly the security. The
surprising, is that his whole life had been a continuous loop of
start various types of businesses and soon, when almost everything
I was about to start, but I canceled it, backing out.
Many other people also suffer from problems with themselves.
due to having values that are not ideal. There are values that we
They potentiate, however, not all values are like that. For example, a
value how security can play bad tricks on us for being

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unnecessary, since, in the Western world, most people
we have the sufficient security that we need. Likewise,
many people love and long for freedom, but what they do not realize
the fact is that they are already free! Values such as effort, flexibility, the
intelligence can be much more empowering.
To understand our values, we must not confuse the average values.
with the final values. To the question "What do you value most in the
life?” many people answer things like money, music,
playing football, luxury etc. These are not the values of each one; they are the
means to achieve that final value. Values are emotions
what more importance they have for us. In the example of a person
for whom money is very important, its value is the emotion that is
finds behind. For other people the emotions that it represents the
money can represent different things: freedom, success, power, leadership, etc.

We must not confuse values with our needs.

basics: health, family, physical safety, social environment, housing, etc.
Since it is something that everyone values, but they are not the values to which
We refer to in NLP. Values are the emotions to which
we would try to get closer if we had all these needs
covers.
Attention! We must keep in mind that our values are the channels that
lead to happiness, that is, they are the emotions that make us
feeling happy, therefore, we must not confuse happiness with a
value. Everyone values happiness, but happiness is achieved through
through the personal values of each one (although, for some
people, happiness could also be a value.
Exercise:
Think about the following questions that will help you get to know your
values and list the values you are approaching:
What do you value most in life? What is it that you value the most?
What importance do you give to them? What are your average values? (think about them)
to find the endings) If you had a balanced life and all your
covered needs What emotions would you try to approach?
Amor / Productividad / Inteligencia / contribución (ayudar a los demás)/
Consensus
Placer físico / Igualdad / Aventura / Ser único / Conexión / Imagen /
Freedom
/ Armonía / Honradez / Ética / Comunicación / Desarrollo / Integridad /

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Continuous learning / Spirituality / Contact / Dialogue / Sharing
Dominance
Stability
Projection
sufficiency
Functionality...
These are just some of your possible values, although they may not be.
are in the previous list.
Choose your main values and score them according to their importance:

1-
2-
3-
4-
5-
6-
7-
8-… etc.

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EXERCISE 12: TECHNIQUE FOR FEARS, TRAUMAS AND PHOBIAS

1. The Explorer chooses the situation they want to work on and

establish the signal that will be given to the Guide every time it has been completed
what it says to him and the place where the Resource Anchoring will take place.
2. The Guide says: 'Now close your eyes and imagine yourself sitting in a'
cinema. On the screen you can see a picture of yourself
in black and white, an instant before having the conflict.
The guide is waiting for the signal that it has been done.
3. "Now float out of your body until you reach the cabin of
projection of the cinema. From there you can see the photo on the screen and to
you yourself sitting in a movie theater chair.” Wait for the signal.
4. "You are still in the projection booth and you convert the photo
from the screen in a black and white movie. Look at that
movie from the projection booth of the cinema, from the beginning
until a few moments after the end of the experience
unpleasant, when everything is fine again.” To wait for the
signal.
5. "Now transform this last image into a slide."
Wait for the signal.

Jump into the slide and project the movie in colors from the
final at the beginning. Everyone is going to walk backwards; what is said
it is not understood because it is spoken backwards,.....everything is going to happen backwards,
Like when you finish, open your eyes. Wait for them to open.

"Rewind the movie faster than before and at the end"

open your eyes.

Play the movie backwards again, even faster, and when it ends
open your eyes

6. Find out what resources the Explorer needs to be more

sure of your new behavior and make a stacking of Anchors.
7. Verify the result by thinking about the situation that
Before it caused him the problem. If necessary, they can be stacked.
more Resources.
8. Build a Bridge to the Future with similar situations.

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EXERCISE 13: TIMELINE

1. Imagine their timeline determining where the present is.

the past and the future.

2. Ask him to enter the timeline, associating the present and

looking to the future. Ask how the future will be with the new
belief and how it will help her achieve her goal.

3. From the present, tell him to turn looking at the past and to walk.
slowly along the timeline finding the experiences
that can support and reinforce the new belief. Also ask for
to identify the significant people who have sponsored him/her and
that he/she feels that the experience with them can help him/her to
develop this belief. * If there are people or experiences that
bears do not reinforce, they have the future goal and the new belief, tell him
the explorer who avoids them, momentarily stepping out of the
timeline or picking only the positive from those experiences
may it serve to set the objective and the new belief in motion.

4. When finding the oldest experience (in childhood or

adolescence) that holds the new belief tell the explorer
that moves towards the present collecting thanks and
placing in his heart, at his center, the experiences and
people who are going to help you achieve your goal. *When
I reached the conflicting experiences or people, the explorer.
You can avoid them by selecting the positive and keeping it.
discarding the negative.

5. Upon arriving in the present, experiencing memories and companionship.

from the people who are going to help you install the new belief,
tell him to choose a word (anchor) that means success to him
goal and to repeat it internally, with strength, to associate it with the
new belief that is already established. Remind the explorer
that a Kinesthetic and visual anchoring can also be performed.
Now ask him/her: How is your future with this new belief?

6. Bridge to the future. The explorer walks along the timeline

towards the future and imagine moments, places, and circumstances in
the ones that will manifest this belief. Tell him to enjoy the
experiences arising from this new belief and that in each
one of them repeats the anchoring that was done to reinforce the
experience.

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7. To imagine achieving the proposed objective and to discover
the new positive repercussions that belief has in your life
installed.

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EXERCISE 14: REINVENTING YOURSELF

1- On the timeline, visiting moments of success in the past, until

the present.
2- Open and close your eyes in the present and formulate your personal mission.

3- From the present, visualize a screen manifesting that mission

personal.
4- Jump to the future by associating with this screen.

5- To exit in the future to one side of the timeline in metaposition.

Imagine the future 'ME' acting on the screen. Review that movie.
from the beginning to the end in black and white about 3 times. Review
the movie very fast 5 or 6 times, from beginning to end.
Revive the movie in color more slowly. Jump into the movie and
associate.
6- Go to the present, open and close your eyes. Turn that successful future into
a seed.
7- Return to any pleasant point in the past and plant that
seed.
8- Keep moving forward and visualize how there is a sprout from that seed and it is going
growing stronger, up to the present. In the present is
enormous.
9- Open and close the eyes.
10- Bridge to the future, with moments of success.
11- Go out to the goal position; see, hear, and feel that better 'You'. And notice how
There are elastic bands in the heart and on the forehead. Return to
present.
12- Notice how the elastic bands pull on you and you will notice that.
attraction always.
13 - Open and close your eyes and notice how you will always feel that.
attraction.

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ACTION PLAN

During this phase, we assist the client in defining a plan for

motivating and at the same time realistic action to move towards your goal.

Below we collect some useful questions:

What are you going to do?
How are you going to do it?
Where are you going to do it?
When exactly are you going to start?
What are your criteria and measures of success? How are you going to
evaluate?
What could prevent you from moving forward or reaching the goal?
What are you going to do to overcome the barriers if they occur?
Do you need any support? From whom?
What will you do to get that support?
How does this plan help you achieve ..... (session objective)? And to
achieve ... (process objective)?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how committed are you to carrying it out?
What do you need to rate it a 10?
What do you need to increase your level of commitment?

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