Source: Robert Dilts

Enhance your problem solving, creativity, or simply your enjoyment of life by creating a synesthetic (multi-representational system) expression of an optimal state.

Step 1: Select and access a resourceful state. #

Step 2: Initiate a related movement pattern. #

Find within yourself a pattern or kind of body movement that seems to somehow express this state. You may find a pattern, or the movement may evolve more like a free-form dance.  Give yourself permission to do it your own way, without the burden of judgement or preconceptions.

Step 3: Change up the movements. #

With care and mindfulness, make gentle and subtle variations of this pattern. Notice how this affects how you experience your resourceful state. Explore how this connects you to its deeper structure.

Step 4: Transfer the movements. #

Transfer this movement pattern and quality to another part of your body. For instance, if you began with your hand, move it up into your shoulders and neck. Be gentle if you are not much of a dancer.

Step 5: Extend the movements to more areas. #

Extend this movement quality to many parts of your body, perhaps the totality of your body. Even invite it to come out in your facial expression.

Step 6: Use another rep system. #

Repeat this using another rep system. This time, you used the kinesthetic in four dimensions (by adding time expression through movement).  You could swap that for visuals by drifting through memories and creating images that express the state. You could create an auditory expression by singing and tapping or by remembering and inventing sound environments in your mind. You can add words, impressionistically and poetically, or by describing the soundscapes. There are plenty of possibilities for your creativity.

Step 7: Test. #

In the coming days and weeks, notice any ways that you are using your intelligence and creativity across rep systems to solve problems, be creative, or simply experience a richer world.