ABSTRACT

The representational systems described in the previous chapter combine to form the main sensory ‘modalities’ of the thinking process. They each have special characteristics that we can recognize through a person's physiology, voice, eye movements and so on. As we saw, we can sometimes identify a preference, or primary representational system (PRS). However, each representational system has, in turn, its own neurological qualities or characteristics, known as submodalities, which we will cover in this chapter. These submodalities tell us more about the process of thinking, and in particular the nature of the unique mental maps and filters in the NLP model.