Bitterness means the refusal to assimilate and integrate a situation that is happening, or has happened recently, into the current reality. By simulating and integrating a situation by processing the stimuli provided and by resolving internal conflicts and problems that exist only within the person’s mental maps, not necessarily in real life.

Step 1: Elicit the person’s eye accessing cue locations for all modalities. #

Step 2: Select and recall a past experience that represents the bitterness state. #

Step 3: Elicit the sub-modalities at the exact moment the bitterness starts to emerge. #

Step 4: Use synesthesia to place each modality back in its proper EAC location. #

Step 5: Work through the driving sub-modalities in each modality, and reduce their level. #

For example, if in the bitterness experience, the tone of voice of the other person involved elicits a negative emotional response, reduce the volume and slow down the tempo. Do that several times.

Step 6: Dissociate to a third perceptual position and imagine yourself as an observer in the same scene. #

Step 7: Go through the experience right from the beginning, but twice as fast in tempo, remaining in the third perceptual position, and remember to keep the modified driving sub-modalities. #

Step 8: Break state. #

Step 9: Enter the timeline, and float to the moment right before the past experience begins. #

Step 10: Since the bitterness did not yet emerge, you say, “Notice that before this event began, you had no knowledge of becoming bitter, and therefore you are aware of not finding bitterness in your body. #

Can you notice that?”

Step 11: Anchor the moment of realization that bitterness did not exist at that moment. #

Step 12: Move back to the present and fire the anchor. #

Step 13: Exit the timeline. #

Step 14: Test. #

When you think about that original experience now, do you notice new insights and realizations about the situation, maybe things you have ignored previously? "