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Exercise 2:

Go through the people who bother you, until you find one, who you remember as having a really uncomfortable voice; A voice that makes you cringe, an overpowering voice, or one that sounds like a dental drill.

So what happens if you change their voice?

If you remember someone who has a deep and authoritative voice, what happens when you imagine them giving you a hard time while sounding like Donald Duck?

Just speeding someone up until they sound like one of the munchkins is also quite fun.

If there is someone who tires you out because there voice just seems to bash you over and over, then try slowing them right down.

Think of other ways you can change someone's voice and try them out to work out which changes effect you the most.

Exercise 3:

So, now lets put it all together.

Remember five people who you have trouble dealing with.

Think about the next time you are likely to have to deal with them.

Using Visual and Auditory hallucinations, make them easier to deal with.

Just to give you a start, here are some ideas of changes that may make people easier to deal with.

Visual Changes

• Clown Nose, Clown Clothes, Clown Shoes
• Dress them like Shirley Temple - if you don’t remember …
• Make them wobbly
• Change their hair - badly
• Bloke in a dress - if you're British - think 'Little Britain'
• Big flat feet
• how about a big perm
• Handlebar moustache – great, especially on women

And now for the auditory changes:

Auditory Changes

• Make them sound like Donald Duck
• One word – Helium
• Add a soundtrack to the memory –
              Benny Hill is always good
              Always look on the bright side of life
• Give them a stutter or make them hesitant

So far we have dealt with changing the content via changing the visual, and auditory elements.

So can we perform a similar exercise in the kinesthetic modality?