Submodality

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In neuro-linguistic programming, submodality means a qualitative subdivision of the five sensory systems (the so-called sensory modalities ).

According to NLP, the combination and sequence of the submodalities form the basic building blocks of subjective experience.

example

As early as 1917, Kurt Lewin discovered that the inner perception (here: visual representation) of the outer space can change due to emotions. The educator Thomas Hoffmann explains Lewin's observation: “The idea that the psychological and physical space are not identical with one another first appeared in Lewin in 1917 in an early phenomenological study entitled ' War Landscape ', in which he described his experiences as Describes soldier in World War I. There he describes how the perception of a landscape changes when one approaches the front line: Shortly before that, the landscape extends evenly on all sides to infinity. The landscape appears 'round'. However, if you approach the front line, the landscape suddenly gets a 'border' and a 'direction'. It stops 'somewhere in front' and the whole area now shows itself as a 'zone' that runs roughly parallel to the 'border'. The properties of the psychological space differ significantly from the properties of the objective space, the perception of which changes due to the changed meaning for the agent. "

Analog and digital

Submodalities can be divided into analog and digital sub-characteristics. Analog sub-properties are continuously measurable and changeable. Examples are the brightness, contrast, size and distance of internal visual images (each of these sub-properties can be changed on a scale: an image can be lighter or darker). Digital sub-properties can only be changed discontinuously. Examples of this are the distinctions between dissociated / associated, localized / holistic body feeling or with auditory processing according to tonal / digital (for example when reading and internal auditory processing of this "digital", non-tonal text).

Emotional coding

According to Richard Bandler (NLP founder), submodalities encode the emotional (subjective) meaning of remembered as well as constructed (projected into the future) experiences. Likewise, submodalities are used to internally differentiate between past and future (presented) experiences and, due to the respective emotional connections, the (individual) type of the respective submodality coding has significance for intrinsic motivation (and in this respect for planning and quality) of subsequent action (s).

List of submodalities

  • Visual (seeing)
    • Image (photo) or film (sequence)
    • Movement (type, speed) or still image
    • Black and white or colored
    • Brightness, illumination, incidence of light
    • Clarity, contrast, sharpness
    • Image size, perspective, distance
    • Image depth
    • Image position
    • Associated or dissociated
    • Framing
  • Auditory (listening)
    • volume
    • pitch
    • Modulation : melodic or monotonous, speed, rhythm
    • Tonality: full, thin or hoarse, nasal, distorted, echo
    • Harmony or cacophony
    • Position of the noise source: where do the sounds, noises or voices come from?
  • Kinesthetic (feel, sense, touch)
    • Damp, dry, soft, hard, smooth or rough
    • temperature
    • Still or in motion: posture, speed and rhythm of the movement (s), gestures
    • Locality in the body (one place or everywhere)
    • Pressure (inside or outside), tingling, tension, temperature
    • intensity
  • Olfactory (smell) and gustatory (taste)
    • sweet, sour, fruity, tart, bitter, fresh, putrid, umami
    • intensity

Submodalities for experiencing relationships

Internal characteristics that determine the experience of relationships are named by Lucas Derks as submodalities of the social panorama .

literature

  • Gregory Bateson: Ecology of Mind , Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 3-5182-8171-2
  • Richard Bandler, Will McDonald: The Subtle Difference. NLP exercise book for the submodalities , Junfermann Verlag, ISBN 3-8738-7012-6
  • Steve and Connirae Andreas: You know how. Working with submodalities , Junfermann Verlag, ISBN 3-8738-7291-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Hoffmann (2007): Mapping psychic spaces - Kurt Lewin's topological psychology and its contribution to a dynamic theory of mental disability. (PDF), p. 9, footnote no. 24. On “Kurt Lewin: Kriegslandschaft (1917). In: Ders .: Werkausgabe, Vol. 4: Field theory. Edited by Carl-Friedrich Graumann. Bern, Stuttgart: Huber, Klett-Cotta 1982, pp. 315-325. "
  2. ↑ Bandler, Richard: Unbridled motivation: About NLP, rapid changes and much more. Paderborn 2009 (3rd edition), Junfermann, ISBN 978-3873873629

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