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NLP Motivation Exercise - Get Motivated with NLP!

By Chris Harrison - Posted April 2003

The purpose of this NLP Motivation exercise is to enable you to motivate yourself to perform a particular action or behavior.

It is important to understand the steps so that you can perform this exercise without any doubt as to what you are doing and why.

It is important to read the Content and Submodality NLP Lessons before attempting this exercise.

For this exercise we going to return to the submodality lists we used in the Submodality Lesson.

Firstly, think of something that you are effortlessly motivated to do, then think of the thing you want to be motivated for, but currently fail to achieve.

Basically you are looking to create a list of which submodalities are different between them.

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    
Position    
Color    
Focus    
Size    
Distance    
Movement    
Border    
Associated    

 

Now the Auditory differences:

 

Submodality Motivated Image UnMotivated Image
Volume    
Tone    
Tempo    
Pitch    
Direction    

 

So now you should have a list of the differences between the two representations. The next step is to work out which of the differences is important to create the feeling of motivation.

So take each of the differing submodalities one at a time, change the submodality in the unmotivated representation to match the submodality in the motivated representation.

For instance, if your motivated image was a moving image of you reading and the unmotivated image was a still image of you doing your taxes, you will change the image of you doing your taxes so that it is a moving image.

Go through each submodality in turn until you have changed the unmotivated image for each submodality.

Once you have finished, take a couple of seconds break, then think about the activity you had no motivation for. Notice how you now feel about it. If you cannot tell the difference then go back through the submodalities again.

But just one thought? What do you use to find the motivation to use this NLP motivation exercise?

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