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The NLP Compulsion Blowout
Chris Harrison - May 2006
©2007 PlanetNLP Ltd
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The Compulsion Blowout is the compulsives best friend.
Whether you are a compulsive eater, smoker, or just someone who wants to control a habit, this is the exercise for you.
It is important to read the Content and Submodality Primers before attempting this exercise.
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So here goes:
Imagine in your mind the thing you have the most difficulty avoiding.
Be that a cigarette, cream cake, bar of chocolate or whatever?
Notice where in space the image is.
Is it in front of you, or to the side?
How far away is it?
How big is the picture?
Now I want you to think of something that you are not compulsive about, and using the following grids, compare their submodalities.
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If you would like to print out the grids used in this exercise then refer to the Submodality Worksheet.
Firstly list the visual differences:
| Submodality |
Motivated Image |
UnMotivated Image |
| Brightness |
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| Position |
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| Color |
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| Focus |
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| Size |
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| Distance |
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| Movement |
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| Border |
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| Associated |
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Now the Auditory differences:
| Submodality |
Motivated Image |
UnMotivated Image |
| Volume |
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| Tone |
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| Tempo |
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| Pitch |
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| Direction |
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So now you should have a list of the differences between the two representations.
Notice the submodalities that are different between the two, and play with the submodalities of the compulsive representation, increasing and decreasing them until you work out which submodality has the strongest effect on the compulsiveness.
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Now in most NLP techniques you would want to lower the impact of the image.
I would usually ask you to make the picture smaller, or to move it away,but the compulsion blowout doesn't work that way.
If you discovered that the size of the image is the compulsive element in the sense that a larger image is more compulsive, then I want you to make the image larger and larger, very quickly until the image becomes so large that the compulsion just doesn't work any more.
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You're aiming to make the representation completely ridiculous.
Obviously if you found a different submodality made the most difference, then you must work with that one.
As with most submodality shifts, repeat several times, and perform the shift as quickly as possible then test your work.
The aim is to make the image so extreme that it becomes unrealistic and cannot have the same pull that it had on you before.
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