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I am unable to copy the youtube demonstration.
You can access
Resolving Anxiety and Other Strong Feelings with NLP by Steve Andreas
at : https://youtu.be/g9dDsn1Ka9g
I have used this technique successfully.
Different Ways to
Spin Feelings: A Discussion with Rob Voyle
Steve Andreas
In response to my last blog post, Rob Voyle sent
me an email with great detail about his experience
in using the Spinning
Feelings process that may explain why some people have found closed loops,
while others have found spirals. His comments stimulated a number of thoughts
and responses
in me, the kind of collegial exploration that I love, and
that happens all too seldom in the field.
For readability, I have made this into a dialogue between
us,
which Rob has checked over and approved.
Rob: I have
been “spinning feelings” since you demonstrated it briefly in Winter Park
some years back (2009). I ask people, “What direction
does it travel, where does it begin
and where does it go to.” (What’s its path)? Most people
have no trouble with this question.
Steve:
Sometimes, as in my example with Joan, it may take some exploration to realize the path
is somewhat different from what they originally noticed.
Rob: When I
ask, “What color is it?” many people say “I don’t know,” to which I promptly
respond,
“Close your eyes and take a look. What color is it?” Everyone has been
able to report a color.
My tone is quite definite, similar to Andy Austin’s when he gets people to close their
eyes
and tell him what they are standing on in a metaphor of
movement elicitation.
Steve: You
can also use the “As if” frame, “If it had a color, what would it be?”
or simply “Give it a color.”
Rob: Then I
ask, “Which way is it spinning — clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Sometimes they will demonstrate it spinning with a
finger; other times not. Again if they don’t know,
I ask them to close their
eyes and have a look. I don’t concern myself with whether it is clockwise
or anticlockwise from my or their perspective, it is
simply their reference point so they can spin it
in the opposite direction. It may be ambiguous to us but
it does not seem ambiguous to the client.
Steve: Good
point. I want to know for myself which way,
and occasionally this might be useful to remind a client
if they forget.
Rob: Then I
tell the client, “Now set all that aside for a moment. When you think of that
situation,
what would you like to be feeling?” (calm, assured, peaceful,
confident, etc.)
“Now remember a time when you felt that feeling in the
past at some time.”
Steve: This
is relying on the client’s conscious mind to choose the desired feeling.
Often it will be fine to do this, but I prefer to just
find out what happens spontaneously,
because their conscious mind may make a poor choice
guided by beliefs or “shoulds.”
Rob: Then I
ask, “And what color is that?” Then I get them to spin the feeling the other
direction,
and allow it to turn from the first color to the second color. I
don’t add sparkles.
That takes care of the physiological component of the
anxiety, which sometimes is enough.
Steve: I
suggest you try adding sparkles; most people love it. In that Winter Park demonstration
you mentioned, I deliberately left out sparkles, because
she described the anxiety feeling
as being like “fireworks” which often includes sparkles,
and I didn’t want to say anything
that might describe the problem state. Of course someone
could always
have a problematic response to sparkles; hopefully they
would express this,
either verbally or nonverbally, so one could adjust.
Rob: My usual
approach though is to follow it with, “What do you have to hear to be anxious?”
which I call a negative mantra that evokes the anxiety.
I resolve it as I would a critical voice, or using a visual
version of Nick Kemp’s tempo shift.
With regard to the spinning, after intervening I have
asked people more details about the direction
of the spinning. Some report that
the feeling was corkscrewing along the path,
others that it is a loop, as Bandler suggests. It doesn’t
seem to matter how the spinning is occurring.
It is enough that they know and
they can spin it the other way.
I’ve found that trying to determine all that during the
session just creates confusion and is irrelevant,
I just need to know that the
client knows their experience.
Steve:
Interesting. Again, I like to know which it is out of my own curiosity —
and haven’t found it creates confusion. But I have been
assuming that it corkscrews along the path.
I’ll try your way and see what I
find.
When my client in the video is
talking about what she says to herself, over and over again,
she rotates her hands in a vertical closed loop in front
of her at 3:57. So it may be that clients represent the
spinning of the words in
a closed loop, but the spinning of the feeling in
response to the words spirals along a path that isn’t a closed loop. If this is
so, it might resolve the apparent discrepancy between different reports that I
pointed out in my previous post.
Rob: My own
reflection on why it works is that many people, when anxious,
report they are “spinning out of control” or some other
description that includes spinning.
People who are in a panic will often flap their hands
(“in a bit of a flap”) and their hands flap
in a slight circle. As an experiment in a couple of cases
I have asked someone to “flap anxiously,” watch what direction their hands were
flapping, and then ask them to flap them
in the other direction. Instantly the anxiety feeling
dissipates.
So if your world is spinning out of control just spin it
the other way.
Steve:
Interesting. Again this may be the spinning of the words they are saying to themselves,
in contrast to the path of the resulting feeling —
something to explore further.
Rob: I have
found that spinning the feeling and resolving the negative mantra
has been highly effective in treating most anxieties and
phobias, especially when the client
has no awareness of a precipitating event for such
anxiety or phobias.
Steve: I
think there is probably seldom a precipitating event in anxiety;
that it is a cumulative generalization based on
repeatedly hearing parents or other adults
saying things like, “Watch out!” in a high pitched, rapid
“urgent” voice in contexts of danger.
The urgent tonality is something that is learned
unconsciously,
and tends to remain unconscious unless attended to.
Rob: When the
person does report a precipitating event such as an auto accident etc.
I will use the movie theater phobia cure to deal with
that specific event.
Steve: Sounds
good; that is probably actually a separate process,
but easy for a client to confuse with anxiety.
Rob: I don’t
use any formal hypnosis in any of the steps. I used to add a brief relaxation
exercise
that had elements of trance when resolving the negative mantra,
to create a relaxed state, but found I don’t need to do
that.
With regard to spinning a feeling, the best experience
was just after I had seen you demonstrate it.
I was conducting a coach training and was waiting with a
couple of participants
for the rest of the group to return from an exercise.
I
took just a couple of minutes to demonstrate and have them experience spinning
an anxious feeling,
and then the rest of the group arrived and we went on to
other things.
One of the people who had done the brief exercise had to
have an MRI several months later
and he realized as he was being prepped to go into the
tunnel that he was claustrophobic
and began to get quite anxious, at which point he
remembered
what he had done in the exercise and spun his anxiety in the
opposite direction;
the anxiety disappeared and he was able to comfortably
have the MRI.
Steve: Others
have reported successfully using the spinning feelings process
for something that we would usually classify as a phobia.
Again this would be something to explore further, to find
out if spinning feelings is a valid alternative method for a phobia, or if some
apparent phobias actually have the structure of anxiety.
http://realpeoplepress.com/blog/different-ways-to-spin-feelings-a-discussion-with-rob-voyle
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