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#23 Tite Change Personal History Pattern

Concept. The "past" only exists "in our mind," Externally, in the

world "out there," it no longer exists. It has passed- But we keep it

inside us (in our mind and body) and call that "past" OUT

"memory." And yet OUT memories continually change. With every

new understanding, development, learning, and experience we

keep revising and updating our past memories. Since our memory only

exists as a construction, Richard ttendler has noted that, "It is

never too late to have a happy childhood."

Now what we remember, why we remember, and how we use our

memories involve our personal response-ability. To carry around

"accurate,' but hurtful and traumatized memories just because

"that's what really happened," only empowers those events. By

doing so, we keep cuing our mind-body system to "live in the

past" and to keep re-accessing negative emotional states. When we do


this, we creale ongoing hurt and disem power merit. Not a wise
way to run ogr own brain. Now we can use this pattern to change
l histories!
This pattern offers a way to recode the "past" in such a way that it
no longer serves as a reference for destructive feelings or for
defining self in negative ways, ft recodes memories as resources
and learnings; and becomes an enhancing orientation for moving
into the future with a positive attitude. The process finds a
problem memory, traces it to its source, reframes it with resources
and then brings that resource stato up to the present and into the
future.
The Pattern
1. Access a problematic memory. Access and elicit the problematic:,
unwanted, or unpleasant feeling. Find a memury wherein
you felt less than resourceful. As you do, establish an anchor for
this state. Calibrate to this state in the person.
2. Invite the person io engage in a trattsderwationel search (TDS).
Utilizing this anchor, assist the person in finding a previous
experience when this same feeling occurred, "Take this feeling
and let it guide you back in time to help you remember other
times when you felt this same kind of feeling. Allow yourself to
float back, in your mind, all the way back to previous times and
places where you felt this..." Whenever you note that the person
seems to re-experience the same negative state, have the person
stop and re-anchor it. Ask, "What age do you feel yourself in
this experience?"
3. Continue the TDS. Using the anchor, have the person go back
through time and find three lo six experiences of this .same
negative state, Each time ask his/her age while re-anchoring.
When you get bark lo the earliest one, stop,
4. Break state lo dissociate and to anchor resources. Have the
person step out of lhat "younger him" and watch that younger
him from his adult self. Now inquire, "As you look hack on
those experiences, what specific resources would vou need in
those past situations for that younger you to have responded in
a more effective way?" Elicit and anchor these resource slates
fully.
5. Collapse resourceful anchor with the unresottrceful tmcJior. As the
person returns to the earliest experience, simultaneously fire off
the negative stale anchor and the resource anchor As you do,
ask, "What would that past memory feel like when you know
you have this resource with you back then?" "How would this
resource make thai past different?" Then have the person come
up through history, stopping at each past experience with the
new resource so that history begins changing, so that each
experience becomes more resourceful and satisfying.
h. Trouble-shooting. If the person has difficulty changing the
past experience, bring him to the present and construct and
anchor more powerful resources so that his resource anchor
becomes stacked with resources.

7. Break state. Once you have changed all of the past experiences,
have the person break state. After a little bit, have them
think about that problematic or unwanted feeling,
8. Test. What happens? Have the memories changed? In what
way? Does the person experience the resource as there?

9. Future pace. FInally , have them think about similar experiences


that may occur in the future. As they do, you may want
to fire off the resource anchor.
#28 The Meta-Transformatio Pattern

Concept, We can create generative transformation that will

permeate all of our personality if we make a change at a higher

logical level—a meta-level. The primary difference between this

pattern and Core Transformation lies in the operational

metaphors. In Core, we use the idea of "going down" to our

"core," to identify and access deep "core" states. Here we turn the

metaphor around, and go up {meta) to a higher logical level to

access desired transcendental meta-states. By finding the positive

intent of each state, we get to our highest transcendental Metastates,

hence meta-transformation

This pattern fully develops our desired outcome and elicits a

desired chain of states. Continue to ask the exploration question,

"What do you seek to experience, accomplish, feel, etc., and, when

you get that, what does it get for you?"

Generally, in NLP, we do not ask the "why" question or go

exploring the past for causes. Such why questions

tend to focus us on problems, the past, and on causations. And the


answers we get to such questions usually only keep us in the

problem. Instead, we focus primarily on how and what questions.

"What do I seek to accomplish by these current actions?" This

question orients us toward our objective, purpose, and our desired

state(s). Once we know our chain of desired states, we can then ask

the how questions. "How can I best get there? What

resources will help me?"

Because we try to accomplish something of value as we discover

these desired status, we can then allow these answers to become

the basis of our inner life! In other words, we can "just step up into

these desired outcome states." We can use them as our way of being

in the world. Source: Hall (1996).

The Pattern

Four Going-Up Steps:

1. Identify a behavior. Consider some behavior, state, experience,

or habit that you do or engage in, but which you; do not

evaluate as effective or pleasant. What behavior or state do you

experience that you don't appreciate about yourself? (You can

also use this pattern with positive behaviors that you do like

and appreciate.)
2. Explore your 'what' if intention and design. "What do you seek

to gain by doing this?" "How does this hold value or purpose

for you?" "What do you want to achieve by this?"

3. Keep repeating. 'And what do you seek to accomplish, experience

or gain when you do this?" Continue this line of

questioning until you begin to loop. "What do you want,

through obtaining this, that you deem even more important?'

"It' you get this desired state, in just the way you want it, what

would you like that is even more important to you?"

4. Continue until you limp. Eventually you will generate a string

of desired states. You'll know when you've reached the top

when you begin to loop among the highest states.

Four Going-Down Steps:

5. Fully describe your ultimate, transcendental Mctastate (TMS),

Describe what this ultimate transcendental Meta-state would

look like, sound like, feel like, the language you use to talk to

yourself about it, etc.

6. Step into the TMS. Use all of your descriptive cues to help

your brain-body create the desired state and then just step into
it. Use the "as if" frame if you need to: what would you look,

sound, feel like to fully and completely experience the TMS?

7. Experience the state fully. After you step into the TMS, allow

yourself to experience it fully so that you can absorb it

throughout your body,

8. Lise the TMS to relate Us resources downward. How does

already having this state transform your experience? How does

it enrich it? How does it change the way you think-and-feel?

Take the TMS and Set it organize, modulate, alter, and drive the

lower states.

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