1. Dissociation Have you ever been in a situation that gave you a bad feeling? Maybe you have experienced something that gets you down every time you experience it. Or perhaps you get nervous in certain work situations where you have to speak publicly. Maybe you get shy when you want to approach that “special someone” you’ve had your eye on. While these feelings of sadness, nervousness, or shyness seem to be automatic or unstoppable, NLP techniques of dissociation can help immensely. Identify the emotion (e.g. fear, rage, discomfort, dislike of a situation) that you want to get rid of Imagine that you can float out of your body and look back at yourself, encountering the entire circumstance from an observer’s perspective Notice that the feeling changes dramatically For an extra boost, imagine that you can float out of your body looking at yourself, then, float out of this body again, so you’re looking at yourself, looking at yourself. This double dissociation should take the