Think of an image that makes you feel unpleasant in some way—sadness, fear, regret, disgust, etc., and pause to notice how it makes you feel when you think of it right now. . . . Then notice where this image is located in your personal space. It could be somewhere inside your head, or somewhere outside in the space around your body, or it could be located somewhere inside your body. . . . Then notice other submodalities of this image— size, moving or still, black and white or color, brightness, clarity of focus, etc. . . . Keeping the location, and all the other submodalities of your image the same, try the following experiments, each time pausing to notice if it changes your feeling in response to the image, and if so in what way. An experiment might change the intensity of your feeling (increase or decrease), or it might change the quality of your feeling, for instance from fear to humor or curiosity. Or the intensity and the quality might stay the same, or both might change.
1. Now imagine that the left edge of your image has a hinge, and that the right edge pivots away from you so that you see it at an angle, as if it were on the left wall of a room. . . .
2. Now imagine that the right edge of your image has a hinge, and that the left edge pivots away from you so that you see it at an angle, as if it were on the right wall of a room. . . .
3. Now imagine that the bottom edge of your image has a hinge, and that the top edge pivots away from you, so that you see the image horizontal, as if it were on the floor of a room. . . .
4. Now imagine that the top edge of your image has a hinge, and that the bottom edge pivots away from you, so that you see it horizontal, as if it were on the ceiling of a room. . . .
When you find a tilt that results in an interesting or useful change in your feelings, try varying that over a range, from smaller tilt to a larger tilt, to find one that maximizes the change. . . . Now try the same experiments above, but imagine that the image moves toward you, so that the image reverses as it pivots, becoming a mirror image. . . .
You could also try putting a vertical (or horizontal) hinge in the middle of your image, so that both sides (or top and bottom) of the image tilt away from you in a V shape. If you find a tilt that changes your feelings in a useful way, consider keeping that change, so that whenever you think of that image you feel differently than you originally did before you started these little experiments.Then try all these experiments with a willing friend, and find out if they experience any interesting or useful changes when they try them. Different people find different changes in tilt useful, and this can also vary with the content of the image.
