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August Exercise of the Month Provided by Sharon Jones

1. Establish Rapport with Explorer.

2. Identify a long-term outcome that you desire for your future. What would happen if you got what you wanted? Are you sure you want this?

3. Think of a barrier that represents instant gratification, one that regularly prevents you from achieving this long-term outcome. Define a space on the floor for both the outcome and the barrier. Calibrate the possibility of the outcome from 1 to 10.

4. Step into the outcome space. What is important to you about achieving this outcome? Ask at least two more times about response. (E.g. "It will make me more confident", So, What's important about being confident?) Until you reach the core value (x).

5. What do you see, hear and feel? (Establish Submodalities). (Calibration)

6. How will (outcome) help you to better achieve Value (x)? Step off of space and break state.

7. Now step onto Barrier space. To establish Criteria, when you are (barrier) what is important to you, What are you evaluating?

8. Why is Criteria important? What does it lead to or make possible? What else would enable you to Criteria? Give me three examples.

9. Rate desire for barrier on a scale of 1 to 10. Establish Submodalities and then adjust them one by one to establish a reduction in desire for instant gratification.

Associated/Disassociated
V = Colour, brightness, distance, slide or movie etc.
A = Sounds, distance, volume etc.
K = Feelings, location, movement, texture etc.
O = Imagined tastes
G = Imagined smells


Test desire on scale of 1 to 10. Once desire has reduced sufficiently, step out of space and break state.

Step into Meta Position. Look at both spaces and decide which is preferable. Now allow the outcome you to superimpose over the barrier you. Step into this space and anchor this new state. (Pump up submodalities to make space as compelling as possible, if necessary).
10. How does what's happening now determine what might happen in the future?

11. Test. Calibrate the possibility of the outcome from 1 to 10.