Woman: I had a lot of difficulty reframing the problem that my partner presented. It was an interaction with his wife, and when she does something that she—

Did he give you one sentence?

Woman: Yes. He wants to stop making so many visual side trips when he's talking to his wife.

That doesn't fit one of the two forms that I asked him to express the statement in, so it has nothing to do with what we are doing here today, unless he rephrases it for you, or unless you question him until you get a statement which fits those forms. I want you to use the two forms that we demonstrated earlier, so that you have some control over your language and your sense of expression. I said «Describe a problem in one of these two forms.» He did it in some other form, so it has nothing to do with what's going on here. If you were to Meta–Model him, eventually it would come out in one of these two forms. You weren't the only one who did that, by the way. A lot of people came up and asked «What do you do with this sentence?» And I said «Nothing. It has nothing to do with what we are doing here.»

An important part of being successful in NLP is knowing what kind of problem your procedure works on. If you know that, you can do successful demonstrations any time you want to. You just ask for volunteers who have exactly what your procedure works on. You say «Who has a problem like this: you go into a context and you want to have a certain feeling, but instead you have a completely different feeling, and it happens every time?» If you have a therapeutic model like reanchoring which is designed to deal with that, you can't lose.