NLP techniques - Visual Squash (New)

A highly recommended and brilliant adaptation of the the original 'Visual Squash' technique which is now excellent for goal setting, it has been adapted from Richard Bandler's book TRANCE-formation (page 61).

Lots of applications!

Visual Squash (New) - What's important

You can you almost all your NLP skills to add depth to this technique.

Be aware that depending on context you may find 10-12 stages in paragraph 5 too many when you start. It also works well using 2-4, you can always build later.

Visual Squash (New) - The technique

Create a vivid representation of yourself the way you are now (your present state) - All that you consider good and bad.

See yourself the way you would be if you got through your problems and well achieved your goals. Be very clear on how you will be behaving, what you will be saying and feeling. Make the image as clear and as rich as possible. Use all your senses.

Place one image in each of your hands outstretched in front of you with a space separating them. This space represents the unexplored territory and unspecified steps that lie between the two states.

Begin to make a series of images or movies of the logical steps from one state to the other. Adjust each picture or movie, frame by frame, changing what ever needs to be changed , until each is a fully representational, progressive stage of the process of change.

When you have between ten and twelve stages in front of you, slowly begin to close your hands, collapsing all changes into a simple process.

Bring your clasped hands towards your body and pull the new state into your body, making a new feeling that represents action and success.

Spin that feeling faster and faster, intensifying it and allowing it to spread throughout your body, so it permeates every muscle, every organ and every nerve, and every cell. As you do this, look at where you want to go and decide clearly what you need to do first. Then see yourself taking the second step, then the third, and keep spinning and intensifying the feeling until you fell compelled to get up and go for it.

Visual Squash. Note the original visual squash is also useful, and is noted in most good NLP books.