I suspect the efficacy of this method depends a lot on the subject’s ability to really bring forth the internal representations of the phobia (ie mental images, feelings, etc) so that they can be changed.
Indeed it is. The hardest part seems to be finding subjects. If you know one and would like to try it, I could walk you through it and explain a few failure modes to avoid.
Haven’t dicked around much with it yet. But one thing I can tell is that a lot of the self-hacking stuff I came up with myself over the years has been laid out in much clearer form in NLP. Always cool to get those “ah! so that’s what I was doing” moments.
One thing I’m going to be experimenting with is changing my chunking and anchoring around exercise. In other words, trying to change the number of steps I perceive it to be, and the mental images and feelings it evokes when I think about it.
Something I’m currently playing around with is imagining turning down negative self-talk and dimming mental images that I don’t wish to have.
I’m sure it’s amazing to read about. How amazing have you found it in practice?
I’ve used their “fast phobia cure” to amazing effect—at least it amazed me (and him) at the time.
It took less than 29 minutes of text chat back in early April, and the issue remains solved.
Interesting, that seems like an especially cheap and concrete thing to test.
Interesting video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtUatMghbHg
Follow up 25 years later: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjjCzhrYJDQ&feature=related
I suspect the efficacy of this method depends a lot on the subject’s ability to really bring forth the internal representations of the phobia (ie mental images, feelings, etc) so that they can be changed.
Indeed it is. The hardest part seems to be finding subjects. If you know one and would like to try it, I could walk you through it and explain a few failure modes to avoid.
Haven’t dicked around much with it yet. But one thing I can tell is that a lot of the self-hacking stuff I came up with myself over the years has been laid out in much clearer form in NLP. Always cool to get those “ah! so that’s what I was doing” moments.
One thing I’m going to be experimenting with is changing my chunking and anchoring around exercise. In other words, trying to change the number of steps I perceive it to be, and the mental images and feelings it evokes when I think about it.
Something I’m currently playing around with is imagining turning down negative self-talk and dimming mental images that I don’t wish to have.