NLP Techniques

1. Peripheral Vision
Description: Expanding your peripheral vision can help you access different states of
consciousness and increase relaxation and awareness.
Steps:
1. Find a quiet place where you won't be disturbed.
2. Focus on a central point in front of you at eye level.
3. Gradually widen your focus to include everything in your peripheral vision without
moving your eyes.
4. Continue to expand your awareness until you are aware of the entire visual field in
front of you.
5. Maintain this expanded vision for a few minutes, noticing how it changes your state of
mind.
2. Swish Variation
Description: Enhancing the swish technique by focusing on specific sensory details and using
multiple sensory channels.
Steps:
1. Identify the trigger image or situation that you want to change.
2. Create a new, positive image that you want to replace the negative one with.
3. Add sensory details to both images (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).
4. Rapidly switch between the negative and positive images in your mind, making the
positive image larger and more vivid each time.
5. Repeat the process until the negative image automatically transforms into the positive
one.
3. Fractionation
Description: Deepening trance by bringing someone in and out of a trance state repeatedly.
Steps:
1. Guide the person into a trance state using relaxation techniques or guided imagery.
2. Bring them out of the trance by asking them to open their eyes or become aware of
their surroundings.
 3. Repeat the process, gradually extending the duration of the trance state each time.
4. Use suggestions and affirmations during the deeper trance states to reinforce desired
changes.
4. TOTE Model (Test-Operate-Test-Exit)
Description: A problem-solving model for achieving desired outcomes.
Steps:
1. Test: Define the current situation and desired outcome.
2. Operate: Take action to move from the current situation towards the desired outcome.
3. Test again: Assess whether the actions taken have moved you closer to the desired
outcome.
4. Exit: Once the desired outcome is achieved, exit the process. If not, repeat the cycle.
5. Contextual Anchoring
Description: Creating anchors in specific contexts to trigger desired emotional or behavioral
responses.
Steps:
1. Identify the context in which you want to create the anchor.
2. Choose a specific trigger (e.g., a touch, word, or gesture) that will serve as the anchor.
3. Associate the trigger with a strong positive emotional state by repeatedly experiencing
the state while using the trigger.
4. Test the anchor in the desired context to ensure it triggers the positive state.
6. Meta-Frames
Description: Using higher-level frames to recontextualize situations and shift perspectives.
Steps:
1. Identify the current frame or perspective on a situation.
2. Ask questions that introduce higher-level frames (e.g., "What does this mean in the
larger scheme of things?" or "How would this look from a different perspective?").
3. Reframe the situation based on the new insights gained from the higher-level
perspective.
7. Auditory Swish
Description: A variation of the swish technique focusing on auditory components.
Steps:
1. Identify the negative sound or internal dialogue you want to change.
2. Create a new, positive sound or internal dialogue to replace it.
3. Rapidly switch between the negative and positive sounds in your mind, making the
positive one more dominant each time.
4. Repeat the process until the negative sound automatically transforms into the positive
one.
8. New Behavior Generator
Description: Imagining and mentally rehearsing new behaviors in future contexts.
Steps:
1. Identify the behavior you want to adopt.
2. Visualize a future situation where you want to exhibit this behavior.
3. Mentally rehearse the behavior in detail, imagining yourself successfully performing it.
4. Repeat the rehearsal regularly to reinforce the new behavior.
9. Contrast Frames
Description: Comparing two experiences or states to highlight differences and create a shift in
perception.
Steps:
1. Identify two contrasting experiences or states (e.g., success vs. failure).
2. List the characteristics of each experience in detail.
3. Highlight the differences between the two experiences.
4. Use the insights gained to shift your perception and approach situations differently.
10. Reframing Content and Context
Description: Changing both the content and context of an experience for deeper change.
Steps:
1. Identify the content of the experience you want to reframe.
2. Change the context by asking questions that shift the perspective (e.g., "What else could
this mean?" or "How would this be different in another context?").
3. Create a new meaning for the experience based on the changed content and context.
11. Analogue Marking
Description: Using tone of voice, pauses, and emphasis to mark certain words or phrases in
speech to communicate suggestions indirectly.
Steps:
1. Plan the suggestions or messages you want to communicate.
2. Use a specific tone of voice, pauses, or emphasis when speaking the key words or
phrases.
3. Observe the response of the person you are communicating with to ensure the
suggestions are being received.
12. Behavioral Frame
Description: Shifting focus from the content of an issue to the behavior that surrounds it.
Steps:
1. Identify the behavior that accompanies the issue.
2. Analyze the behavior to understand its triggers and patterns.
3. Focus on changing the behavior rather than the content of the issue to facilitate change.
13. Deep Trance Identification
Description: Identifying with and adopting the behaviors, thoughts, and skills of a model or
mentor in a deep trance state.
Steps:
1. Choose a model or mentor whose behaviors or skills you want to adopt.
2. Enter a deep trance state through relaxation or guided imagery.
3. Mentally identify with the model or mentor, imagining yourself embodying their
characteristics.
4. Practice the new behaviors and skills in real life to reinforce the identification.
14. Stealth Techniques
Description: Using covert NLP techniques and language patterns to influence and persuade
without overtly revealing the process.
Steps:
1. Learn subtle language patterns and techniques (e.g., embedded commands, analogical
marking).
2. Integrate these patterns into your natural communication style.
 3. Use the techniques in conversation to influence and persuade without making the
process obvious.
15. Alignment of Logical Levels
Description: Ensuring that changes at different logical levels (environment, behavior,
capabilities, beliefs, identity, and purpose) are congruent and supportive of each other.
Steps:
1. Identify the logical level at which the issue or goal exists.
2. Examine the other logical levels to ensure alignment and support for the desired change.
3. Make adjustments at each level as needed to create congruence and support the overall
goal.
16. Peripheral Processing
Description: Using peripheral awareness to process information and make decisions in a more
holistic and less analytical manner.
Steps:
1. Expand your awareness to include your peripheral vision and other senses.
2. Allow your mind to process information without focusing too narrowly on specific
details.
3. Make decisions based on the overall sense and intuition gained from peripheral
processing.
17. Triple Description
Description: Exploring a situation from three different perspectives (self, other, and observer) to
gain a comprehensive understanding.
Steps:
1. Describe the situation from your own perspective (self).
2. Describe the situation from the perspective of another person involved (other).
3. Describe the situation from a neutral, third-party perspective (observer).
4. Integrate the insights from all three perspectives to gain a more complete
understanding.
18. Meta-Mirror
Description: Using the concept of mirroring to understand and integrate different parts of
oneself or to resolve internal conflicts.
Steps:
1. Identify the parts of yourself that are in conflict or need integration.
2. Mentally position these parts as if they were standing in front of you.
3. Imagine a mirror between you and each part, reflecting back their qualities and
perspectives.
4. Communicate with each part, using the mirror to understand and integrate their
viewpoints.
19. Negative Anchors
Description: Identifying and collapsing negative anchors that trigger undesirable emotional or
behavioral responses.
Steps:
1. Identify the negative anchor (e.g., a specific sound, image, or touch) that triggers the
undesirable response.
2. Create a strong positive state and anchor it with a different trigger.
3. Simultaneously trigger the negative anchor and the new positive anchor to neutralize the
negative response.
4. Repeat the process until the negative anchor no longer triggers the undesirable response.
20. Strategic Reframe
Description: Reframing an experience in a way that aligns with a person's strategic goals and
values.
Steps:
1. Identify the experience or belief that needs reframing.
2. Determine the person's strategic goals and values.
3. Reframe the experience to align with these goals and values, highlighting how it
supports or can be leveraged to achieve them.
21. Compelling Future
Description: Creating a vivid and compelling vision of the future to motivate and guide actions
in the present.
Steps:
1. Visualize your desired future in detail, using all your senses.
 2. Make the vision compelling by focusing on the positive emotions and benefits
associated with it.
3. Mentally rehearse actions and steps you will take to achieve this future.
4. Use the vision as a motivator and guide for your daily actions and decisions.
22. Temporal Distortion
Description: Altering the perception of time to make experiences feel shorter or longer, often
used in pain management and relaxation.
Steps:
1. Focus on a specific experience you want to alter the perception of time for.
2. Mentally speed up or slow down your perception of the experience.
3. Use guided imagery or relaxation techniques to reinforce the desired temporal distortion.
4. Apply this altered perception in real-life situations to manage pain, anxiety, or other
states.
23. Rhythm and Pacing
Description: Using the rhythm and pacing of speech to create rapport and influence emotional
states.
Steps:
1. Match the rhythm and pacing of the person you are communicating with to create
rapport.
2. Gradually change the rhythm and pacing to lead the person into a desired emotional
state.
3. Use pauses and emphasis to highlight key points and suggestions.
24. Advanced Metaphor Design
Description: Crafting complex and multi-layered metaphors to communicate deep and
transformative messages.
Steps:
1. Identify the message or change you want to communicate.
2. Create a metaphor that encapsulates the message, using vivid imagery and sensory
details.
3. Embed multiple layers of meaning within the metaphor to address different aspects of
the issue.
 4. Use the metaphor in conversation or storytelling to deliver the message subtly and
effectively.
25. Unconscious Signals
Description: Recognizing and interpreting unconscious signals (such as muscle twitches or
changes in breathing) to gain insights into a person's internal state.
Steps:
1. Observe the person's body language and subtle cues during interaction.
2. Notice any changes in muscle tension, breathing, or other physical signals.
3. Ask questions or make statements that align with these signals to gain further insights.
4. Use the information gathered to adjust your communication and influence effectively.
26. Value Elicitation
Description: Identifying and clarifying an individual's core values to align actions and decisions
with what truly matters to them.
Steps:
1. Ask open-ended questions to explore what is important to the person (e.g., "What do
you value most in life?").
2. Listen carefully to their responses and identify recurring themes or values.
3. Clarify and prioritize the identified values.
4. Align actions and decisions with these core values to ensure congruence and fulfillment.
27. Pattern Detection
Description: Developing the ability to detect patterns in behavior, language, and thought to
understand and influence more effectively.
Steps:
1. Observe the person's behavior and language over time.
2. Identify recurring patterns or themes in their actions and speech.
3. Analyze these patterns to understand underlying beliefs and motivations.
4. Use the insights gained to tailor your communication and influence strategies.
28. State Elicitation
Description: Using questions, language patterns, and anchors to elicit specific emotional or
mental states in oneself or others.
Steps:
1. Identify the desired state (e.g., confidence, relaxation).
2. Use language patterns and questions that lead the person to recall experiences where
they felt the desired state.
3. Anchor the state by associating it with a specific trigger (e.g., a touch, word, or gesture).
4. Test the anchor to ensure it reliably elicits the desired state.
29. Mindfulness Integration
Description: Combining NLP techniques with mindfulness practices to enhance awareness and
presence in the moment.
Steps:
1. Practice mindfulness techniques such as deep breathing, body scanning, or meditation.
2. Integrate NLP techniques (e.g., anchoring, reframing) during mindfulness practices to
enhance their effectiveness.
3. Maintain a mindful state while applying NLP techniques in everyday situations.
4. Reflect on your experiences to deepen awareness and presence.
30. Future History
Description: Creating a detailed and vivid narrative of a desired future as if it has already
happened, to make it more real and achievable.
Steps:
1. Visualize your desired future in detail, using all your senses.
2. Create a narrative describing this future as if it has already happened.
3. Include specific actions and events that led to achieving this future.
4. Regularly review and update your future history to reinforce its reality and guide your
actions.
31. Future Pacing
Description: Mentally rehearsing a future scenario to ensure that desired behaviors and
responses will occur naturally in the actual situation.
Steps:
1. Identify the future scenario where you want to exhibit a desired behavior or response.
2. Visualize the scenario in vivid detail, imagining yourself in that situation.
 3. Mentally rehearse the desired behaviors and responses, seeing yourself acting
confidently and successfully.
4. Add sensory details (sights, sounds, feelings) to make the visualization more realistic.
5. Repeat the visualization regularly to reinforce the desired behaviors and responses.
32. Calibration
Description: Observing and interpreting subtle changes in another person's behavior, such as
body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions, to better understand their internal state.
Steps:
1. Observe the person's baseline behavior in a neutral or relaxed state.
2. Pay attention to subtle changes in their body language, tone of voice, and facial
expressions during interactions.
3. Interpret these changes to understand their internal state and emotional shifts.
4. Adjust your communication and behavior accordingly to build rapport and influence
their state.
33. Chunking
Description: Breaking down complex information into smaller, more manageable parts
(chunking down) or grouping small pieces into larger concepts (chunking up) to change
perspective.
Steps:
1. Identify the information or concept you want to work with.
2. Chunk down by breaking the complex information into smaller, more detailed parts.
3. Chunk up by grouping smaller pieces into larger, more generalized concepts.
4. Adjust your perspective based on the level of detail or generalization needed for the
task or understanding.
34. Metaphor
Description: Using metaphors to convey complex ideas in a more accessible and relatable way.
Steps:
1. Identify the complex idea you want to convey.
2. Create a metaphor that represents the idea in a simpler, more relatable way.
3. Tell a story or give an example using the metaphor to illustrate the idea.
 4. Ensure the metaphor clearly conveys the intended message and is easily understood by
your audience.
5. Use metaphors regularly to simplify and clarify complex concepts in your
communication.
35. Nested Loops
Description: Using stories within stories to bypass conscious resistance and deliver suggestions
to the unconscious mind.
Steps:
1. Identify the message or suggestion you want to deliver.
2. Create multiple stories that can be nested within each other.
3. Begin with the outermost story and gradually transition to the inner stories.
4. Embed the suggestion or message within the inner stories.
5. Return to the outer stories and complete them, ensuring a smooth and coherent
narrative flow.
6. Repeat the process to reinforce the suggestion and bypass conscious resistance.
36. Ecology Check
Description: Ensuring that changes made through NLP techniques are sustainable and beneficial
to the individual's overall well-being and their environment.
Steps:
1. Identify the change you want to make using NLP techniques.
2. Consider the impact of the change on all aspects of your life and well-being.
3. Ask yourself questions such as "Is this change sustainable?" and "Will this change
benefit my overall well-being?"
4. Evaluate the potential consequences of the change on your relationships, work, and
environment.
5. Make adjustments to the change if necessary to ensure it is ecological and beneficial.
6. Implement the change and regularly review its impact to maintain ecological balance.
37. Pattern Interrupt
Description: Breaking a person's habitual thought or behavior pattern to create the opportunity
for change.
Steps:
 1. Identify the habitual pattern you want to interrupt.
2. Choose a method to disrupt the pattern, such as a sudden change in activity,
environment, or communication.
3. Implement the pattern interrupt when the habitual pattern occurs.
4. Introduce a new, desired behavior or thought pattern immediately after the
interruption.
5. Repeat the process until the new behavior or thought pattern becomes habitual.
38. Sensory Acuity
Description: Developing heightened awareness of sensory information to better understand and
respond to others.
Steps:
1. Practice observing sensory details in your environment, such as colors, sounds, and
textures.
2. Pay close attention to people's body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions
during interactions.
3. Notice subtle changes in these sensory details to gain insights into their internal states.
4. Adjust your responses based on the sensory information you gather to build rapport and
communicate more effectively.
39. Reimprinting
Description: Changing past negative experiences by altering the emotional imprint they have
left.
Steps:
1. Identify a past negative experience you want to change.
2. Recall the experience and fully immerse yourself in the memory.
3. Change the sensory details of the experience (e.g., colors, sounds, intensity) to alter its
emotional impact.
4. Visualize a positive outcome or lesson learned from the experience.
5. Reimprint the memory with the new positive details and perspective.
6. Repeat the process to reinforce the positive reimprinting.
40. Fast Track Change
Description: Implementing quick and effective techniques to achieve rapid personal
transformation.
Steps:
1. Identify the area of your life where you want to make a rapid change.
2. Choose a quick and effective NLP technique that suits the desired change (e.g.,
anchoring, swish pattern).
3. Apply the technique following the specific steps for that method.
4. Monitor the change and make any necessary adjustments to ensure its effectiveness.
5. Reinforce the change by practicing the technique regularly and integrating it into your
daily routine.
41. Circle of Excellence

Description: Creating an imaginary circle on the ground that represents a state of peak
performance or confidence. Stepping into the circle triggers the desired state.

Steps:

1. Find a quiet space where you can stand and move around.

2. Visualize a circle on the ground in front of you. Imagine it in vivid detail, with a color or
symbol that represents excellence to you.

3. Recall a time when you felt extremely confident and successful. Fully immerse yourself
in that memory, focusing on the feelings, sights, and sounds.

4. Step into the circle while holding onto those positive feelings. Let the circle amplify and
enhance them.

5. Anchor the state by associating it with the circle. Practice stepping in and out of the
circle, reinforcing the desired state each time you enter it.

42. Meta States

Description: Recognizing and managing different layers of thoughts and feelings, such as
feeling anxious about feeling anxious, to create more resourceful states.

Steps:
 1. Identify the primary state you want to change (e.g., anxiety).

2. Notice your response to this state (e.g., feeling anxious about being anxious).

3. Create a positive meta-state by recalling a time when you felt calm and in control.

4. Overlay the positive state onto the primary state. Imagine feeling calm about your
anxiety, effectively neutralizing it.

5. Repeat the process for different layers of thoughts and feelings until you reach a more
resourceful state.

43. Belief Installation

Description: Instilling empowering beliefs by associating them with strong positive emotions
and experiences.

Steps:

1. Identify the belief you want to install (e.g., "I am capable of achieving my goals").

2. Recall a time when you felt a strong positive emotion that supports this belief.

3. Link the belief to the positive emotion by visualizing or affirming the belief while
experiencing the positive emotion.

4. Repeat the process regularly to reinforce the new belief.

44. Spatial Sorting

Description: Physically moving to different locations in a room to represent different

perspectives or emotional states to gain insights or resolve internal conflicts.

Steps:

1. Identify different perspectives or emotional states you want to explore.

2. Assign each perspective or state to a specific location in the room.

3. Physically move to each location, embodying the corresponding perspective or state.

 4. Gain insights and resolve conflicts by experiencing and integrating these different
viewpoints.

45. Decision Destroyer

Description: Eliminating the negative effects of a past decision by changing how it is

remembered and perceived.

Steps:

1. Identify the past decision that you regret or that has negative effects.
2. Visualize the decision and how it affected you negatively.
3. Change the visualization by altering the sensory details (e.g., make the image smaller,
blurrier, or change the colors).
4. Create a new, positive outcome for the decision and visualize it in vivid detail.
5. Reframe the past decision as a learning experience that led to positive growth.

46. Quantum Linguistics

Description: Using advanced language patterns to create shifts in perception and thought,
promoting deeper and more rapid change.

Steps:

1. Learn advanced language patterns (e.g., Milton Model, Meta Model).

2. Integrate these patterns into your natural communication style.
3. Use language patterns to shift perception and thought in conversations, focusing on
promoting positive change.
4. Observe the effects of the language patterns and adjust as needed.

47. Timeline Reimprinting

Description: Revisiting past experiences on a mental timeline to change their emotional impact
and reframe their significance.
Steps:

1. Create a mental timeline of your life, with past, present, and future marked.
2. Identify a past experience you want to change.
3. Revisit the experience on your timeline, imagining yourself viewing it from a distance.
4. Change the sensory details of the experience (e.g., colors, sounds) to alter its emotional
impact.
5. Reframe the experience by imagining a positive outcome or lesson learned.
6. Integrate the new perspective into your timeline, reinforcing the positive change.

48. Multiple Descriptions

Description: Viewing a situation from many different angles or descriptions to gain a more
complete understanding and find innovative solutions.

Steps:

1. Identify the situation you want to understand or resolve.

2. Describe the situation from multiple perspectives (e.g., self, other, observer).
3. Consider different angles and contexts (e.g., emotional, logical, practical).
4. Integrate the insights gained from the different descriptions to form a complete
understanding.
5. Use the integrated perspective to find innovative solutions and make informed
decisions.