Submodalities

• A submodality¹ is a distinction in how we re-experience a past event.
  • Example: Remembering a visual event in black and white vs. color²
• The submodalities we have a firm grasp on dramatically influence our emotions and experiences
• Everyone has their own developed submodalities and they control our emotions.
  • A lack of submodalities means submodalities are not developed
  • Overdeveloped means past events are re-experienced clearly
• Controlling emotions mean recontextualizing submodalities. Ask questions with a gentle curiousity.

On NLP

Note that this comes from NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming not Natural Language Processing), which, as wikipedia³ and others⁴ point out, is considered Pseudoscience.

Footnotes

1. Derek Banas. Control Your Emotions. 2010. YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvMDJGljxAc. ↩

2. “Submodality (NLP).” Psychology Wiki, [https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Submodality_(NLP)](https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Submodality_(NLP%29). Accessed 25 June 2024. ↩

3. “Neuro-Linguistic Programming.” Wikipedia, 24 June 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Neuro-linguistic_programming&oldid=1230790250. ↩

4. Lilienfeld, Scott O., et al. “The Teaching of Courses in the Science and Pseudoscience of Psychology: Useful Resources.” Teaching of Psychology, vol. 28, no. 3, July 2001, pp. 182–91. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1207/S15328023TOP2803_03. ↩