146 Leading with NLP
Exploring Trust
Think about the word ‘trust’. How do you represent it
in your mind?
What feeling do you have for trust?
What qualities does it have and whereabouts in your
body do you feel it?
What sounds or voices come to your mind when you
think of trust?
What qualities do they have and where do they come
from?
What picture do you have of trust?
What kind of picture is it?
What qualities does it have?
Are you in the picture or are you looking at the
picture?
Is it a moving picture or a still picture?
Is it colour or black and white?
How big is the picture?
How far away?
Whereabouts in your visual field is it placed – to the
right, left, up or down or straight ahead?
Think of a symbol for trust. Make it reflect the meaning
of the word ‘strength’.
Now think of yourself trusting someone.
Ask yourself the same questions:
What kind of picture do you have?
What sounds go with it?
What feelings go with it?Building Self-Trust
Explore your own ideas of self-trust in this exercise.
Think of a model, someone you trust.
What kind of picture do you have of them?
What qualities does this picture have?
Is it a moving picture or a still picture?