NLP technique: Overcoming Fear, Worry, Anxiety

NLP technique: Overcoming Fear/Worry/Anxiety

1. Think of something that you are frightened of or worrying about. Make it something where the feeling is unpleasant, you are not sure what to do, and the feeling is getting in the way of your effective action.

2. Imagine the situation and feel the feeling. Give it a label. It could be “fear”, “fright”, “anxiety” or “worry”.

3. Now imagine that feeling in front of you. Look at it with your mental vision. What does it look, feel and/or sound like?

a. Look

• Colour:colour or black and white

• Shape: Describe the figure

• Depth: two or three dimensional

• Size: large or small

• Brightness: Bright or dark

• Contrast: Well or poorly defined

• Focus: Clear or blured

• Movement: Still or moving

• Speed: fast or slow

• Location: up, down, front, left, right etc

b. Sound

• Does it have a sound?

• Verbal or non verbal: words or sound. If words, what is it saying?

• Direction: Stereo or mono

• Volume: loud or soft

• Tone: Soft or harsh

• Clarity: Clear or muffled

• Pitch: high or low

• Speed: fast or slow

• Duration: continuous or discontinuous

• Location: up, down, front, left, right etc

c. Feeling

• Location: Where in the body is it located?

• Texture: large or small

• Weight: Light or heavy

• Temperature: Hot or cold

• Movement: Still or moving

3. Now let it stream past you. Let it go over you, under you, and around you. Let it go through you and as it does, it will become like a wisp of smoke.

4. As it streams around and through you, it will go behind you. Imagine that you can see I behind you disappearing faster and faster into the distance, until it melts into nothingness, as if it is being sucked down one of those enormous wind tunnels. There is nothing left. If you feel a little residue of the feeling, just put it in front of you again, face it, and repeat the process.

5. Now feel you body solid and grounded. You remain. You are not this feeling, because you can separate yourself from it.