Appendix 3

Classification and
Organization of
Intervention Tools and
Methods: NLP, Eye
Movement Methods, and
Energy Psychology
CONTENTS

Tool/ Method: Anchoring

Tool/Method: Collapsing Anchors
Tool/Method: Chaining Anchors
Tool/Method: Behavior Generator (State-Bound Behavior Chaining)
Tool/Method: The Swish Pattern
Tool/Method: Performance Modeling/Knowledge Engineering
Tool/Method: Switching Perceptual Positions
Tool/Method: Time Line Therapy/Change History
Tool/Method: Submodality Pattern Disruption
Tool/Method: Visual/Kinesthetic Dissociation (V/KD)
Tool/Method: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
and Eye Movement Integration (EMI)
Tool/Method: Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Algorithms
Tool/Method: Negative Affect Erasing Method (NAEM)
Tool/Method: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Tool/Method: Outcome Projection Procedure (OPP) (State-Bound
Behavior Chaining)
Tool/Method: ED×TM Single-Point and Multipoint Protocols
Tool/Method: Collarbone Breathing (CBB) Exercises
Tool/Method: Overenergy Correction
Tool/Method: Basic (Three Polarities) Unswitching Procedure

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Tool/Method: Floor-to-Ceiling Eye Roll and Elaborated Eye Roll
Tool/Method: Nine Gamut Treatments and Brain Balancing Procedure

TOOL/METHOD: ANCHORING

Entropy Effect: Pattern increasing (stabilizing)

Scope: Attractor (behavior/state/mode/submodality), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, recombination
Description: The intentional adding, subtracting, or rearranging of stimuli in
the information field with the intention of specifying a specific attractor or
trajectory; can be used to recombine stimuli (internal/external) with spec-
ified state attractors; can also be used to rearrange phase path for behaviors,
(submodal or macroscopic) memes, thoughts, and states/phases.

TOOL/METHOD: COLLAPSING ANCHORS

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: System, landscape, attractors (state, mode, submodalities), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, cleaving
Description: Releases the state vector from two or more initial conditions
simultaneously causing destabilization (shallowing of both attractors); pro-
duces a light, temporary, trance state.

TOOL/METHOD: CHAINING ANCHORS

Entropy Effect: Pattern increasing/ordering (self-stabilizing)

Scope: Attractors (state, behavior, mode, submodal behaviors, memes,
thoughts), trajectories
Behavior: Replicating, cleaving, and recombining of phase path
Description: Sequential ordering of attractors into a phase path with the
intention of forming a narrow waveguide for the state vector to follow;
useful for redirecting a freed state vector to a positive landscape or forming
pathways having limited degrees of freedom.

TOOL/METHOD: BEHAVIOR GENERATOR (STATE-

BOUND BEHAVIOR CHAINING)

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing (self-stabilizing)

Scope: Attractors (state-bound and mode-bound behaviors), trajectories
(behavior to behavior)

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 Behavior: Replication, recombination
Description: Increases state-bound or mode-bound behaviors available when
state/phase attractor is activated by stimuli from the information field; forms
trajectories between those new behaviors to combine them sequentially,
limiting degrees of freedom for behavior within that state. The intention of
this method is to make more effective state-bound behavioral strategies
available to the neurocognitive system when external stimuli dictate
state/phase selection.

TOOL/METHOD: THE SWISH PATTERN

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing (stabilizing)

Scope: Submodal behavior
Behavior: Replication, recombination, cleaving, and transmission/translation
Description: The replication and recombination of mode-bound representa-
tions of macroscopic system behaviors usually in visual mode. The intention
is to chain alternative behaviors, memes, and thoughts to unwanted ones
and then transfer to macroscopic-level behavior.

TOOL/METHOD: PERFORMANCE
MODELING/KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing (self-stabilizing)

Scope: Attractor landscape, system
Behavior: Incorporation, replication, cleaving, recombining, and transmitting
Description: The elicitation, representation, and transfer of a region of design
space to another neurocognitive system. The intention is to cut training and
education necessary to acquire new skills or knowledge. Sometimes this is
called knowledge engineering or performance engineering.

TOOL/METHOD: SWITCHING PERCEPTUAL POSITIONS

Entropy Effect: Pattern increasing (self-stabilizing)

Scope: Submodal behaviors, state attractors
Behavior: Incorporation, replication, and recombination
Description: The incorporation of viewpoints from two other people, one
inside the communication loop with you and one outside. These viewpoints
(visual mode, emotional state, and thoughts) are incorporated, then repli-
cated internally, and finally chained together in a phase path. The intention
is to help an individual gain deeper insight into another communicator’s
model of the world.

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TOOL/METHOD: TIME LINE THERAPY/CHANGE
HISTORY

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing → to pattern increasing

Scope: Visual submodal behavior/internal stimuli that specify attractors
Behavior: Incorporation, replication, cleaving, and recombining
Description: Memory management — the incorporation, replicating, cleaving,
and reordering (recombining) of memories and constructed images of the
future with intention of effecting macroscopic state and behavior. In time line
therapy we are mainly manipulating the internal stimuli that specify particular
state/phase attractors and, by implication, their state-bound behaviors.

TOOL/METHOD: SUBMODALITY
PATTERN DISRUPTION

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: Submodal behaviors, state attractors
Behavior: Replication, cleaving, recombination, and transmit/transfer
Description: Numerous manipulations by submodal behaviors with the inten-
tion of destabilizing mode and state attractors; the introduction of a pattern-
integrity (a state of motion) that dis-integrates an existing self-stabilizing
pattern-integrity.

TOOL/METHOD: VISUAL/KINESTHETIC
DISSOCIATION (V/KD)

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: Visual mode — mode-bound behavior/state attractors
Behavior: Replicating, cleaving, recombination, and transmitting
Description: The internal replication of an external or internal stimulus from
the information field, transmission or translation of pattern to different regions
of visual working memory (visual field), and destabilization of internal rep-
lication of stimulus with the intention of cleaving the phase path prior to
activation of unwanted state/phase attractors and their state-bound behaviors.

TOOL/METHOD: EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION

AND REPROCESSING (EMDR) AND EYE MOVEMENT
INTEGRATION (EMI)

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: Cleaves, phase path, destabilizes attractors of submodal behaviors,
modes, states (narrow focus)

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 Behavior: Cleaving
Description: Rapid eye movements led by a finger or wand during the time
a state vector is at the trapping zone, in the attractor well, or on the phase
path; interrupts neurocognitive processing by cleaving phase path at a
chosen point and shallowing selected attractors. A similar technique used
by NLP practitioners is called pattern interruption, and can be targeted to
any mode (visual, auditory, somatosensory, etc.).

TOOL/METHOD: THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY

(TFT) ALGORITHMS

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: System, landscape, attractors (state, mode, submodalities), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, cleaving
Description: These procedures, described in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 1998,
2000), release the state vector from one or more initial conditions simul-
taneously causing destabilization (shallowing of attractors). In TFT theory
the algorithm is hypothesized to collapse “perturbations” in the thought
field. From the standpoint of pattern-entropy dynamics, tapping on the
defined acupuncture meridian points effectively perturbs the stability of the
attractors, thereby shallowing them, freeing the state vector to form new
“healthier” trajectories. These algorithms often produce a light, temporary,
trance state.

TOOL/METHOD: NEGATIVE AFFECT ERASING

METHOD (NAEM)

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: System, landscape, attractors (state, mode, submodalities), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, cleaving, recombining
Description: Globally releases the state vector from one or more initial con-
ditions simultaneously causing destabilization (shallowing of attractors).
Tapping on the specified acupoints, chakras, and thymus location effectively
perturbs the stability of the attractors, thereby shallowing them and freeing
the state vector to form new “healthier” trajectories. When NAEM is com-
bined with the OPP (see below), which is often the case, pattern/order
increasing also occurs. NAEM often produces a light, temporary, trance
state. This procedure is described in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 1998, 2000)
and is also referred to as the Midline Energy Treatment (MET) (Gallo and
Vincenzi, 2000).

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TOOL/METHOD: EMOTIONAL FREEDOM
TECHNIQUES (EFT)

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: System, landscape, attractors (state, mode, submodalities), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, cleaving
Description: Globally releases the state vector from one or more initial con-
ditions simultaneously causing destabilization (shallowing of attractors).
EFT involves tapping on a significant number of TFT acupoints, thus
effectively perturbing the stability of the attractors, thereby shallowing them
and freeing the state vector to form new “healthier” trajectories. Often
produces a light, temporary, trance state. This procedure is described in
detail elsewhere (Craig and Fowlie, 1995; Gallo, 1998).

TOOL/METHOD: OUTCOME PROJECTION

PROCEDURE (OPP) (STATE-BOUND
BEHAVIOR CHAINING)

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing (self-stabilizing)

Scope: Attractors (state-bound and mode-bound behaviors), trajectories
(behavior to behavior)
Behavior: Replication, recombination, and transmission
Description: This procedure increases state-bound or mode-bound behaviors
available when the state/phase attractor is activated by stimuli from the
information field. OPP forms trajectories between those new behaviors to
combine them sequentially, limiting degrees of freedom for behavior within
that state. The intention of this method is to make more effective state-
bound behavioral strategies available to the neurocognitive system when
external stimuli dictate state/phase selection. This procedure is described
in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 2000).

TOOL/METHOD: ED×TM SINGLE-POINT

AND MULTIPOINT PROTOCOLS

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: System, landscape, attractors (state, mode, submodalities), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, cleaving, recombining, transmission
Description: In a highly focused manner, these protocols release the state
vector from one or more initial conditions simultaneously causing destabi-
lization (shallowing of attractors). Tapping on the specified acupoints effec-
tively perturbs the stability of the attractors, thereby shallowing them and
freeing the state vector to form new “healthier” trajectories. These protocols
also are combined with the OPP, thus resulting in pattern/order-increasing
features. These procedures are described in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 2000).

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TOOL/METHOD: COLLARBONE BREATHING
(CBB) EXERCISES

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing (stabilizing)

Scope: Attractors (state-bound and mode-bound behaviors), trajectories
(behavior to behavior)
Behavior: Replication, recombination
Description: CBB is employed to alleviate what is referred to as switching
or neurologic disorganization, a condition that interferes with the accu-
racy of manual muscle testing and treatment efficiency (Gallo, 1998).
When this procedure is needed, the neurocognitive and energy system
as a whole is in a state of destabilization. Therefore interventions
designed to destabilize that which is already destabilized cannot work.
CBB serves to increase order, pattern, and rhythmicity in a disorganized
system. This and related procedures are described in detail elsewhere
(Gallo, 1998, 2000).

TOOL/METHOD: OVERENERGY CORRECTION

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing (stabilizing)

Scope: Attractors (state-bound and mode-bound behaviors), trajectories
(behavior to behavior)
Behavior: Replication, recombination
Description: When this procedure is needed, the neurocognitive and energy
system as a whole is destabilized. Therefore interventions designed to
destabilize that which is already destabilized cannot work. The overenergy
correction serves to increase order, pattern, and rhythmicity in a disorga-
nized system. This procedure is described in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 1998,
2000; Gallo and Vincenzi, 2000).

TOOL/METHOD: BASIC (THREE POLARITIES)

UNSWITCHING PROCEDURE

Entropy Effect: Pattern/order increasing

Scope: Attractors (state-bound and mode-bound behaviors), trajectories
(behavior to behavior)
Behavior: Replication, recombination
Description: When this procedure is needed, the neurocognitive and energy
system as a whole is destabilized. Therefore interventions designed to
destabilize that which is already destabilized cannot work. The basic
unswitching procedure serves to increase order, pattern, and rhythmicity in
a disorganized system. This procedure is described in detail elsewhere, and
is also referred to as the Three Polarities Unswitching Procedure (Gallo,
1998, 2000).

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TOOL/METHOD: FLOOR-TO-CEILING EYE ROLL AND
ELABORATED EYE ROLL

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing (destabilizing)

Scope: System, landscape, attractors (state, mode, submodalities), trajectory
Behavior: Replication, cleaving
Description: The client/patient is directed to replicate a troubling cognition
while slowly moving his/her eyes in a vertical direction while tapping at a
specified acupoint on the Triple Energizer meridian. The procedures release
the state vector from one or more initial conditions simultaneously causing
destabilization (further shallowing of attractors). Tapping on the specified
acupoint while vertically elevating the eyes effectively perturbs the stability
of the attractors, thereby shallowing them and freeing the state vector to
form new “healthier” trajectories. The eye movements destabilize visual
mode representations via ocular-motor perturbation and tapping provides
both tactile and motor perturbations to the associated attractors. Often
produces a light, temporary, trance state. These procedures are described
in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 1998, 2000).

TOOL/METHOD: NINE GAMUT TREATMENTS AND

BRAIN BALANCING PROCEDURE

Entropy Effect: Entropy increasing

Scope: Visual, auditory, and somatosensory mode attractors and trajectories
Behavior: Replicate, cleave
Description: The client/patient is directed to open, close, and move his/her
eyes in specific directions, hum, and count while tapping at specified acu-
points on the Triple Energizer meridian, while simultaneously replicating
a troubling cognition. The technique simultaneously destabilizes trajecto-
ries and attractors in visual, auditory, and somatosensory modes. The eye
movements destabilize visual mode representations via ocular-motor per-
turbation, humming destabilizes auditory dialog, and tapping provides both
tactile and motor perturbations to the associated attractors. These proce-
dures are described in detail elsewhere (Gallo, 1998, 2000).

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