Leverage Pattern: Language, Physiology, Thinking

1. The client identifies a problem or stuck state that they recognize has occurred at least three times.
2. They describe all three examples of the state. You listen for Meta Model patterns. Find out the most significant patterns. These will be shown either by repetition (the client repeats the same pattern a number of times) or by tonal emphasis (the client stresses them in their speach).
3. The client now describes the first example again. Now you challenge the Meta Model patterns. Ask them to rephrase. Then ask them to describe how their submodalities and representations change when they change their language. As they describe the changed representational systems and submodalites, their physiology will change into a more resourceful physiology. Anchor this new resourceful physiology kinesthetically with a touch on the arm.
4. Break state.
5. The client describes the second example of the problem. As they do this, use the anchor to change their physiology. Then ask how the submodalities of the experience have changed as a result of the changed physiology. You should also hear changed Meta Model language patterns.
6. Break state.
7. The client describes the third example of the stuck state. (If they can! It might not be stuck anymore.) Ask them to change the submodalities and representational systems to those of the resourceful state that you elicited in step three and four. Notice the shift in language and physiology as they do this.
8. Now, which intervention was most powerful in changing the state:
   Language (challenging Meta Model patterns)?
   Physiology (using the anchor)?
   Thinking (changing the representational systems and submodalities)?

You can also do this exercise with a resource state:

1. The client gives about three examples of the resource state. Calibrate the physiology.
2. The client talks about the first example of the resource state. Elicit the submodalities and representations of the state by backtracking - using the key words the client used to describe the state, together with the key tonality. Explore the submodalities and representational systems that might be changed to enhance the state. The client makes the submodality changes and then you anchor the enhanced physiology that results.
3. Break state.
4. Use the anchor to elicit the state while using the same key words to describe it as the client used originally. Explore how they could change their physiology to enhance the state even more.
5. Now, which was the most powerful way of enhancing the state:
   Language (backtracking with key words and tonality)?
   Physiology (using the anchor)?
   Thinking (changing the representational systems and submodalities)?