Clients will often use nominalization and generalization to describe problems they’re facing. “I am too lazy” or “I am always late to important meetings”, “I am a procrastinator”, “I have a fear of driving on highways,” etc. When they describe what should be a process, as if it were a permanent object, we can use a simple linguistic maneuver to challenge that perception: “If I ask you to teach me how to X, please tell me how I would do X as well as you do.” This helps you pinpoint the visual and kinesthetic anchors that “remind” the client to experience the problem. After disabling these anchors, you can ask them again to walk you step by step through the process of intensifying their problem, but this time the anchors are irrelevant, so they would have a hard time explaining the logic behind the behavior, which loosens and weakens the ineffective process even further.