How To Run Your Brain?

We experience ourselves and the world using our five senses.

We make pictures inside using our 

sense of seeing, we hear sounds 

using our sense of hearing , we 

have feelings which we experience 

through our sense of touch, we 

smell and we can taste. 

In NLP these sensory modalities 

are termed as representational 

system. We represent all 

our experiences to ourselves using these senses.


Whatever we experience (consciously or unconsciously) our 

brain, using any of these five senses, converts it in to 

our mental maps that form our perceptions.

Notice, what we store in our brain is our understanding of any 

event (perception) NOT the actual event.

As humans we respond, react and behave on the bases of our 

perceptions. Its not what is happening in our lives, but 

what we perceive that matters.

 Although no one ever told us before, but the fact is since it’s 

only our perception, we can do whatever we want with it.

Because by changing perceptions of the events, we begin to 

change ‘how’ we relate to that event.
  

Now the perception stored over these senses have some finer  

qualities. e.g. our mental image can include color, 

shape, movement, brightness, depth, etc. Sounds can include 

volume, pitch, tempo, etc. Feelings may include 

pressure, temperature, texture, location etc. These finer 

qualities are called sub-modalities in NLP.

Running your own brain is all about understanding how these  

sub-modalities are arranged and being able to change 

them. 

TRANSFORMATIONS happen as a result of changing these  

sub-modalities. e.g. If someone sees ones self as a fearful, 

shy person, unable to achieve anything, changes this self 

image to a confident, energetic person capable of taking 

necessary actions s/he begins to ACT differently. 

Now let me share with you a very basic exercise.

Close your eyes as you do the following.

Recall a past pleasant experience. A time when you felt great. 

As you recall it. Notice the image in your mind. Imagine 

as if  you have a remote controller in your hand, and make the 

image BIGGER, DOUBLE the size, make it brighter, 

make colors richer, bring it closer, step inside so you can see 

what you were seeing, now increase the volume, make 

sounds stereo, play some really  good music in the back 

ground. Give those good feelings a color, if you want, and 

imagine yourself being bathed in that...

Open your eyes.

 Most people when they do this they find, their good feelings 

get stronger.  

 You can remove a negative experience using similar process. 

Here is how...

Close your eyes as you do the following.

Think of an unpleasant event. Imagine yourself stepping out of 

the picture. Now make the remaining image smaller, 

and drain all the color out of it. Turn it into a small black & 

white dot. Push it farther and farther away from you until it 

looses all feelings. Place an image of a flower pot where you 

had the old negative memory in your mind.

Open your eyes. Take few deep breaths... 

Try to recall the event and notice how you feel. You may find 

you feel differently or you may need to repeat the 

process a couple of times.

There are very powerful techniques in NLP you can use to 

increase your motivation, confidence, good feelings, remove 

limiting beliefs, fears, phobias, anxiety, and negative 

experiences which need proper training. 

The best and safest way to learn to use these processes and 

have lots of fun while experiencing deep 

TRANSFORMATION.

All the best, always


Kamran Sultan