Feeling Familiar

There is an old adage that people who like each tend to be like each other.  Years ago, when I was a teenager, I wanted really hard to assert my independence, so I started to dress differently than my parents.  I wore a jeans jacket and faded blue jeans with rips in...

Three applications of submodalities

Submodality changes can be used to change a like to a dislike.  For example, if you currently crave ice cream to the point where it has become a problem, in hypnosis, we can change the submodalities so that you no longer crave ice cream.  Another application of...

Submodalities: the Art of Fine Tuning Our Mind

A modality is a technical term to describe the six ways we represent information to ourselves internally: pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes and self talk.  A submodality is a fine distinction of one of the modalities.  For example, a mental picture might be...

How To Be a Better Speller

My wife reported one day that my eight year old daughter was having a hard time spelling and asked me if I would work with her to see if I had any ideas.  I asked my wife what the problem seemed to be and she reported that my daughter “just can’t seem to sound out the...