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With this week’s episode of the Practical NLP podcast, we start looking at changework interventions, beginning with ‘visual submodalities’.
The podcast covers:
- when you should, and when you shouldn’t, do changework
- what submodalities are
- how to make a good memory even better (and by extension, how to reduce the impact of a bad memory)
It features, among other things: the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, NLP ‘practitioners’ who don’t know what they’re doing, and why I think submodalities have an evolutionary basis.

Note: this episode is no longer available on Apple Podcasts. You can still order it as part of the Practical NLP Podcast Collection Vol. 3 – Submodalities. It has transcripts too!
This submodality checklist table is designed as a support to this episode of the Practical NLP podcast. It may not make much sense on its own.
| Visual | Auditory | Kinaesthetic |
|---|---|---|
| Location? | Location | Location |
| Size of picture? | Direction | Size |
| Black and white / Colour? | Internal or External? | Shape |
| Bright or Dim? | Loud or Soft? | Intensity |
| Moving or Still? | Fast or Slow? | Steady |
| 3D or Flat? | High or Low? (Pitch) | Movement |
| Focused / Defocused? | Tonality | Duration |
| Amount of Contrast | Pauses | Vibration |
| Framed or Panoramic? | Cadence (rise and fall) | Pressure/Heat? |
| Associated/dissociated? | Duration | Weight |
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