Exquisite States of Mind

How do you get into a state of mind? To answer this try to get into a state of anger now. When was the last time you got angry? 

Lemme guess what you did... You made a picture in your mind of the situation, ie. you saw what you saw when the situation happened, you tried to draw it closer and made it more clear, coloured, large etc. You heard what you heard in that situation and drew that sound closer, made it louder... until...

You intensified the feelings of anger in your body. You looked down and to your right to access the feelings in your body, then you vibrate and rotate them faster till you're hopping mad, all the while hearing your own or others' angry voices.

Even if you didn't exactly do what i have described to arrive at your state, you surely did three things internally saw pictures or movies, heard voices or sounds, felt the anger in your body. 

You may or may not have accessed smells and tastes internally.

All states of mind can be arrived at by manipulating these five internal processes!

In NLP these are called the 5 modalities of thought. In Hindu texts these were called Tanmatra.

States can be deepened or made less deep by changing the location, size, colour, distance, brightness etc of the images or movies you see internally and by changing the tone, tempo, distance, volume, location etc of the sounds/ voices that you hear.

You can also change the location, intensity, direction and path of movement of the feelings generated in your body to tinker with the depth of the state.

These things like location, direction etc. are called submodalities.

Changing submodalities changes the quality of mental states.

Now let's see how much pleasure and good feelings you can generate!

EXERCISE

Make a list of the three greatest feelings you've ever had, instances in your life where you felt simply exquisite!

Situation 1

1. See what saw in situation 1 
   
2. Make the visuals more bright, more clear, bring it closer, then you step closer (mentally of course), make it larger, make it a movie, slow it down
   
3. Hear what you heard in situation 1
   
4. Make it 360 degrees surround sound, make the tone more pleasant, turn up the volume,
   
5. Become aware of the exquisite feelings in your body
   
6. Go inside yourself and locate a beautiful push button with the label 10X, this button will turn your feelings up to 10 times the intensity
   
7. Pull the lever enthusiastically 10-15 times so that you're feeling 150 times more exquisite than you were feeling when situation 1 happened
   
8. You must be exploding with pleasure if you did this right
9. Imagine a cool control panel in your mind and create a large icon of situation1, much like a computer icon in the control panel of your brain. Keep the visual on the icon simple and representative of the state, like  logo for this state.
10. click on it with your finger to load this state

Steps 9 and 10 are called anchoring. Anchors trigger off states of mind.

go through the same steps for situations 2 and 3 where you felt exquisite

You must have 3 icons one for each state on your control panel. You can click these anytime you want to feel exquisite. If you want to feel all three click all three.

Any time you want to intensify a state of mind just go in find the 10x button and jab it enthusiastically a few times.

If you're feeling low click the icons on the control panel and jab the 10X button a few times :)

If this is happening now, great. If it's not try again after you mute all voices of doubt in your brain. Just turn the volume down to zero on all dissenting and arguing voices. It's your brain, you know!

Repeat and practice this exercise until you're satisfied that you are feeling really exquisite!

It's a great tool to have in your mind.