Reframing. Neuro–Linguistic Programming™ and the Transformation of Meaning

Creating a New Part: Outline

1) Identify the desired outcome, the function of the part. «I want a part that will achieve X.»

2) Access any historical experiences of doing X, or anything similar. Step inside each experience and access all aspects of doing X or parts of X. Go through each memory in all representational systems.

3) Create a detailed set of images of how you would behave if you were actually demonstrating whatever this part of you is going to have you do to achieve the outcome X:

a) First create a dissociated visual and auditory constructed movie.

b) When you see a whole sequence that you're satisfied with, step inside the image and go through the whole sequence again from the inside, feeling what it is like to do these behaviors.

c) If you are not satisfied, go back to 3a and change the movie. Do this until you are satisfied with that fantasy from the inside as well as from the outside.

4) Ecological check. «Does any part object to my having a part which will be in charge of making that fantasy a reality?» Make sure you check in all representational systems to find all objecting parts. For each objecting part:

a) Ask that part to intensify the signal for «yes» and decrease for «no.»

b) Ask «What is your function for me?» «What do you do for me?»

c) If the function doesn't tell you what the part's objection is, ask «What specifically is your objection or concern?»

d) Make a complete written list of all the parts that object and their functions.

5) Satisfy all the objecting parts:

a) Redefine the part you are creating to take into account all the functions and concerns of the objecting parts.

b) Go back to step 3 and make a new or modified fantasy that will satisfy the concerns of each part that objected.

c) Check with every part to make sure that each one is satisfied that this new representation of the new part's behavior will not interfere with its function.

6) Ask your unconscious resources to analyze that fantasy and to pull from it the essential ingredients. Your unconscious is to use this information to build a part and give it entity.

«Get what you need to know from that fantasy to be able to build a part of you that can do this exquisitely and easily, and at every moment that it needs to be done.»

7) Test the part to make sure it is there:

a) Go inside and ask.

b) Future–pace, repeatedly.

c) Behaviorally engage the part to find out if it responds appropriately.