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The Drop Down Through Technique - NLP

The document describes a technique called the "drop-down through pattern" for transforming painful experiences. It involves recalling a negative emotion, fully experiencing it, then mentally "dropping down" through that feeling to uncover deeper emotions underneath. This process is repeated until reaching a void, after which the person visualizes emerging with new positive feelings and perspectives. Potential issues like resistance to dropping further are addressed, with suggestions to use alternative language or patterns first for highly traumatic memories.

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The Drop Down Through Technique - NLP

The document describes a technique called the "drop-down through pattern" for transforming painful experiences. It involves recalling a negative emotion, fully experiencing it, then mentally "dropping down" through that feeling to uncover deeper emotions underneath. This process is repeated until reaching a void, after which the person visualizes emerging with new positive feelings and perspectives. Potential issues like resistance to dropping further are addressed, with suggestions to use alternative language or patterns first for highly traumatic memories.

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What emotion, feeling, memory, or experience would you like to transform so that it
enhances your life?

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For the purposes of this technique, recall that experience and step into it so that you see
what you saw, hear what you heard, and fully feel what you felt. Be there again. .. Good.
Where do you feel this in your body?
What does it feel like?
How intense are you experiencing this emotion?
Good, just be there with it for a moment, noticing . just noticing it fully. knowing that it is
just an emotion and that you are so much more than any emotion.

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This may feel strange, but you do know what it feels like when you drop . so feeling that
feeling of dropping, just drop down through that experience until you drop down underneath
that feeling.

". just drop down." "Feel yourself falling through that old experience, that old emotion .
and just go with this . and drop down through . there you go. and what's beneath that
feeling?"

What feeling or emotion lies underneath that emotion?
And now just imagine dropping down through that feeling
[use the Ianguage and terms that the person gives you.]
And what feeling comes to you as you imagine yourself dropping down through that one?
[Keep repeating this dropping-down through process untiI the person comes to
"nothing..." That is, to no feeIings ... to a void or emptiness.]

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Just experience that "nothingness or "void for a moment. Good.
Now let that nothingness open up and imagine yourself dropping through and out the other
side of the nothingness.
What are you experiencing when you come out the other side of the nothingness? What or
whom do you see?
[Repeat this severaI times .. to a second, third, or fourth resource state.]

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Use each resource state to meta-state each problem state.
And when you feel X about Y, how does that transform things?
And when you even more fully feel X what other transformations occur?
Validate and solidify: just stay right here in this X resource and as you experience it fully,
what happens to the first problem state (#1)?
When you feel this (fire anchor for each resource) . what else happens to those old
problem states?

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Let's see what now happens when you try, and want you to really try to see if you can get
back the problem state that we started with.
When you try to do that, what happens?
Do you like this?
Would you like to take this into your future?
nto all of your tomorrows and into all your relationships?

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n terms of trouble-shooting the use of this pattern, there are a few concerns as you work
with people and coach them through this process.

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Sometimes people will reach a point near or at the "void where they say things such as,
"That is it. There is nothing else. Or, " am at the bottom. There is nothing else below.
can't go any further. f this happens, then ask them if they have a visual. invite the person
to say something like, " am on the ground. There is nothing below me.
When this happens then we can say, "Good, just imagine opening the earth up and
dropping down through that.

n any Neuro-Semantic or NLP pattern, our basic approach is that we do what we have to
do to coach a person to continue dropping down through. Use their metaphors and feed it
back to the them in a way that will lead them to open up whatever is blocking them.

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f the person is experiencing a great deal of emotional pain from a memory, use some other
meta-stating patterns to loosen up the frames before using this pattern. We don't want to
lead a person to associate into some extremely painful experience when there are easier
ways of doing it. (BB) have found with this pattern that it provides a great "cleaning up
pattern for finalizing your work.

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f you have an excellent memory, make a visual image of a ladder and state in your mind__
and to them, each state. f not, then jot down on a notepad each state the person drops-
down into. Sometimes there will be as few as 5 and sometimes as many as 20 or 30.

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f the person still has some "negative emotions after you have taken him or her through the
process, then simply repeat the process. That is, recycle through those feelings as you did
with the first negative feeling. You may have to do this two or time times. Do it until the
person does not experience a negative feelings.

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