How to Create a Compelling Self-Image with a Specific Behavioral Change

Purpose: To create a self-image that enhances a specific quality or behavior using information form both the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

1. Establish rapport and ecology for working together, and elicit what quality or behavior the explorer would like to be different.

2. Guide asks, "What would the 'you' look like that has (or does, or is) the trait that you want?" (Elicit submodalities V Ae Ai K and emotional evaluation. Then help the client decide which internal mind's eye is "seeing" the image, and what age the explorer is in the image.

3. Guide says, "Now, have a sense of you already having this desired quality or behavior with your other internal mind's eye. (Pause) Notice what is defferent in the second image?"

4. Guide says, "Now that you have access to both pictures, get a sense, or simply notice, which picture is more compelling?" (Identify one image as the compelling image and bring that image to the center. The other image is the resource or information image.)

5. Guide asks, "What information, skill, resource, quality, or feeling is in the resource or information image that will enhance and enrich the hologram of the compelling you?"

6. Guide says, "In a way that is just right for you, bring that (backtrack resource) over now to become a part of the compelling image." (Use hand gesture to guide moving from down to up as a way of lifting the energy.)

7. Guide says, "Notice how having (backtrack resource) changes the compelling image of you."

8. Guide asks, "What other... ?" (Repeat steps 5, 6, and 7 until all appropriate information has been added to the compelling image.)

9. Guide has the explorer intergrate the compelling self-image into both hemispheres by seeing the compelling image identically through each mind's eye.

10. Guide directs the explorer to associate fully into the compelling image by saying: "Now, I want you to step forward into this compelling image of you. Experience being fully and completely this resourceful you." Guide says, "Breathe into the you now that has (recap qualilities). Now, turn and face the current you, and send a message of encouragement from this compelling you."

11. Guide has the explorer step back into the current self and receive the message of encouragement from the fully integrated compelling self-image.

Test and future pace in several contexts what the explorer will be doing differently in the future with this updated self-image.

11 Steps to Enhance Memory and Recall

1. Establish rapport and ecology for working together. Calebrate Explorer for visual memory access processing.

2. Explain and demonstrate Explorer's current external dominant eye. Forcus on an image across the room, point on the image, close one eye- if picture stays the same, then the open eye is your dominant eye. If the image shifts away , the other eye is your dominant eye. This step shows that there is a difference in eye dominance and will assist in determining the internal dominant eye for Hemispheric Memory Strategy.

3. Have Explorer choose a word (noun) that is easy to spell and that they already know. We will use the example "cat." The step is to learn the process and to create success.

4. Have the Explorer get a visual image of a cat using their left internal eye, and put this image in their visual recall field. Usually located up and to the Explorer's left with visual accessing.

5. Say to Explorer, "Now allow that visual representation of a cat to remain here (Gesture to hold the image in the visual recall field) as you shift to your right internal eye, and in a way that works for you, build in the letters 'c-a-t.' Now you are seeing the word 'cat' along with the picture of what a cat looks like."

6. Next, have the Explorer choose a word they would like to be able to spell.

7. Build a visual representation of what the word means, focusing through the left eye. Build the letters for the word focusing through the right eye. (Remember to chunk the word into small enough pieces, if needed).

8. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 using an image of a person with their telephone number in the image.

9. Test the Explorer's memory of the easy word; the word they chose; and the person with their telephone number.

10. Discuss with the Exploredr when and where this process will be useful in their life to remember important facts, names and information.

11. Practice, practice, practice! :)

How to tell what Side of the Brain is being used

Ultradian Rhythm for Face Lateralization

The Ultradian Rhythm of moving from one hemisphere to the other, as seen in a person's face lateraliation, occurs naturally about every 90 minutes. By being able to calibrate the face, this will indicate which side of the brain a person is processing in more dominantly in that moment. This is useful to notice as a communicator. Since the processing filters of the two hemispheres are quite different, you ability to have this knowledge will help you to be most respectful of a person's style of thinking and to present information and influence in their mode.

The side of the face that has the most space between the eye and mouth, has the widest opening eye and lifted eyebrow and is most relaxed, is open to receiving information from the outside world more dominantly, which activates the opposite hemisphere for processing.

Left lifted face and mouth suggests right hemisphere dominance at that moment in time.

The side of the face that is more tense, the eye opening is narrowed slightly, and the space between corner of mouth and edge of eye is slightly contracted indicates that this is the same side of the brain the person is more dominantly thinking in at the moment.

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