Scary Pictures

The pictures we make in our heads can take us to some difficult places. Often when I'm working with my private clients I find it takes a while for them to 'get' the idea of altering their pictures (the submodalities). By making some key adjustments (making the pictures bigger, brighter, moving, perhaps with the client in the picture (associated) rather than watching themselves (disassociated) – and much more – all kinds of changes for the better can follow.

Anyway, see what you make of this description:

“I started sweating heavily. I started shaking. I felt myself losing control. I was petrified. Then came the pictures in my head, specific, enormous, terrifying images. Sometimes, with the covers pulled tightly over my head, I would try and hide from the thoughts, Then, sometimes out of bed, almost blind with fear, I tried to run from them. Sometimes, I would stand stock still and imagine I could fight the fear with my bare hands.”

(Marcus Trescothick writing in his autobiography 'Coming Back to Me' http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/nov/25/marcus-trescothick-autobiography)

I believe Marcus has seen a hypnotherapist as a part of his recovery. No doubt a key starting point was making those 'enormous, terrifying images' rather smaller.