Submodalities. I: Adolescent happiness. A submodalities approach.

Abstract

Bandler's technique of using submodalities to control mood states is explained. Three case studies illustrate how adolescents might use the approach to increase their happiness. The first of these demonstrates how an obsessive thought can be overcome through the modification of visual submodalities; the second how an internalized inner message from an unsympathetic parent might be handled by changing auditory submodalities; and the third how an unpleasant mood state may be removed. All these changes were achieved very quickly and attention is drawn to the value of short-term therapeutic interventions as opposed to long-term traditional approaches.