What starts as an unpleasant memory can become an amusing
one merely by changing the nature of the voices. Give
someone the voice of a cartoon character, e.g. Bugs Bunny.
What effect does that have?Pressure What sort of pressure can you feel? Is there a
sense of being pushed, a general or specific
pressure?
Location Where in your body do you experience any
sensations?
Motion Is there movement to the feeling? Is it
fluttery, steady, intermittent, tingling?
Temperature Hot/cold/damp?
Intensity Strong/weak?
Pace Is it a fast feeling, a slow one?Now think of a time when you felt joy. What does joy feel like
to you and where exactly in your body do you experience it?
Experiment again. This time experiment with the intensity of
the feeling. Can you turn it up and down? Return the feeling to
its original state. Change the pace of the feeling. Continue to
experiment with each element of the feeling, returning it to its
original state before you experiment with the next one.
You will find that in each case there will be one or two key
distinctions for you. By changing these distinctions you can
change the quality of your experience.Jim experimented with his thinking about presentations, first
thinking about one-to-one meetings in which he felt confident
and relaxed. He discovered that the key distinctions for him
were brightness, focus, and the tone of voice with which he
spoke to himself. By bringing the quality of his thinking about
presentations into line with his thinking about one-to-one
meetings, by making the image bright and in focus, and by
softening his internal voice tone, he noticed that he felt a steady
rippling feeling in his chest. This was the same feeling he
experienced in one-to-one meetings. This, for him, was the
feeling that he associated with confidence.24 NLP AT WORK