The visual squash is one of my favourite NLP processes as it is powerfully transformative yet easy. You can use this process for working through a conflict that your logical mind has become stuck with. Should I do this? Or should I do that? The magical aspects of this process originate from its unexpected and uncensored 'permission' to allow your mind to wander and wonder around subject matters that have become static and infertile.

I was on the last session of the NLP Practitioner course and this was my last process of this long weekend. My colleague encouraged the acknowledgement of the 'conflictual' parts and each was brought out into the palm of alternate hands. A show down ensued between the Inca Wall representation of one aspect of the conflict and a sand coloured 'morph' charcacter whittling a piece of wood into the shape of a whistle in the other.

The Inca wall was forbidding and very dark. It seemed heavy with the past and weighty in its firm, bleak aspect. By contrast the morph was flexibly playful and accomodating in his behaviour and musicality. I felt a foot pressing aginst the wall of my tummy and knew this to be a baby 'morph' eager to join the elder morph...the sandiness became significant as I invited both aspects of this problem to meet....after initial relcutance the sandiness started to colour the darkness of the wall and it began to fall away so that the conjoining image became a beach like place where I was aware of a most powerful Turner like light that drenched this beach in golden dazzling colours..illuminating the preciousness of the sand and of time and the possibility of the'morph' family gently regathering themselves into their easeful shapes...and in the background there was a magnificent bearded benevolent Blake-like 'God' figure whose light joined with this beach and timelessnes...the heat in my hand became intense and the whole of my body 'shone'...

Very helpful( no content needed) and emotionally cleansing...

and LOVELY morph figures..

Many thanks to Steve who asked gently prompting non-judgemental questions and to Peter and Lynn for a superb course at excellenceforall...

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Let your mind wander to a special place and take your mind around this special place. Be aware of everything around you and the feelings and moods that being in this special place generates. Take your mind around the details of this place. Look up and gaze above you. Look around to the side; to your left and right. Breathe. Be aware of your feet.

1)   What colours can you see and feel?

2)   Are there any sounds you can hear? Where can you hear them? Are they far away or inside you? What about the tone?

3)   Are there any smells in this special place? Can you describe them?

4)   Where are you in relation to this special place? Can you move nearer? Is it more of a picture to you? If so, is this picture moving or still? Or on and off?

5)   What feelings are there around this place? Where are these feelings? Are they in you? Are they in ‘things’? Once again, consider if these feelings are static or if the change or move?

6)   What colour is the place? Why?