Ultimate Mind Control

Making fear your best friend....

This technique can greatly increase access to your inner creativity and wisdom, but you will still need to make informed and reasoned decisions about what you do.

This article was written by Royane Real, author of the book, "How You Can Be Smarter - Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better, and Be More Creative". http://www.royanereal.com

As a presenter you want as much conscious control over your brain function as possible. You may feel anxious and this feeling may be interfering with your focus and concentration. What can you do about this?

By understanding 'submodalities' you will be able to re-programme your internal imagery and sound track in order to develop a more impressive and confident feeling.

Our experience has structure, the structure is made up of our five senses; sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. This structure of the senses is called 'submodalities,' the code of experience. It is this code that programmes our brain and informs us if we are anxious or calm, happy or sad. In this section, you'll be introduced to some of the amazing details of mental engineering. We begin with a deceptively simple idea: if we alter the structure of an experience, we alter the nature of the resulting experience. It's a bit like noticing that any building has a specific structure. Things like walls, doors and windows are put together in a particular arrangement to create a building. If we start moving those walls, doors and windows, or begin changing what they are made of, we can drastically alter the building's appearance and functionality. The same is true when we alter the code of our experience, the submodalities.

For each of these submodalities, we can have finer distinctions. We could describe a picture as being black and white or colour, or it could also be bright or dim. Sounds could be loud or soft, or coming from a particular direction. Feelings could be in different parts of the body or have different temperatures. Smells could be pleasant or offensive, strong or light. Taste could be sweet or bitter, strong or mild. These finer distinctions are called submodalities and define the qualities of our internal representations.

Some of the more common submodalities are: