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There is an additional problem with only exploring what the person will “think and say.” For most people, “think and say” means auditory digital words, which Bandler and Grinder pointed out long ago is “secondary experience” in contrast to the primary experience of images, feelings and auditory sounds, based on sensory experience.
With the exception of articles, like “a” and “an,” etc. and proper nouns, like “Bill” or “Omaha,” words indicate categories of experience. In order to have a category, you have to have some experiences to put into the category, and the category also has to have an effective submodality structure to hold the different experiences together as a group. Both the content experiences and the structure of the belief determine how well it will function. I have written extensively about this in great detail elsewhere (2).
Since the new belief in this process is purely verbal, there is no exploration of the underlying experiential content basis for the belief, nor is there any exploration of the underlying submodality structure of the belief. While some people are resourceful enough to use appropriate content and structure, I don't like to assume that they will; I like to be sure. Without a solid structure and content, a new belief is “just words,” or what some people call an “intellectual” belief that will have no real impact on their experience, and will not last.
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