This technique can be used for the client who wants/needs clarity in one or more areas of their life. It is best used with visual people. Using binoculars (rather than a telescope) utilizes the metaphor for focusing and getting clarity through both eyes rather than just one. If needed, describe to the client exactly where the center focusing wheel and the adjustment ring are located on standard binoculars. I keep a pair of binoculars in my office for using this technique. A picture will do just as nicely.

Do any past tidying up by using Soul Retrieval or Re-parenting if necessary.

Ask client to think about an area of their life that they know needs to be changed, but the specific change or goal is vague and difficult for him/her to clarify at this point in time.

Establish client’s time line, referencing past, present and future.

Client should be standing for this technique.

(Spoken to client)

1. Close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths and allow yourself to relax. Think about a time in your past when you had true clarity in some area of your life. A time when you knew exactly how to make a positive change. A time when making decisions and choices was very easy for you. Bring to mind exactly what it felt like to be so clear about your future and your goals. In your mind’s eye, see how you walked with confidence during that time. Experience again, the assertiveness that you felt during that time. Notice everything about that experience. Visualize it, Hear it, Feel it, Taste it, Smell it, BE it! Set Anchor # 1
2. Clear state (open eyes)
3. Close eyes back down.
4. Now, with my assistance, move onto your timeline; stand on your present spot, and look along your timeline towards your future. Imagine (Think about) a vague image off in the distance. Perhaps the image seems far away from you, fuzzy, out of focus and unrecognizable.
5. Imagine now that you have just purchased a pair of binoculars. Take the new binoculars and put them to your eyes. Spread the barrels apart so that each lens fits comfortably against your eyes, and once again look out towards that distant image in your future. Notice that the image is still out of focus… fuzzy, far away and unrecognizable.
6. You are a smart and intelligent person, so you know that all new binoculars are set to a factory default vision and that in order to see images CLEARLY and CLOSE-UP, you must calibrate the binoculars to fit your own eyesight. Each lens has to be carefully focused so that you can see CLEARLY and PERFECTLY through both lenses. You need to focus the binoculars to match your own vision.
7. So with both eyes open, and keeping the binoculars to your eyes, cover the end of the right barrel and turn the center focusing wheel …slowly and carefully bringing the left lens into focus…so that everything you see through the left lens becomes a bit clearer and clearer, closer and closer… Now cover the left barrel and turn the adjustment ring (the rubber ring at the end of the right barrel) clockwise to bring the right lens slowly into focus, so that everything you see through it gradually becomes even CLEARER…..even CLOSER. Clearer and closer. Clearer and closer...
8. (If the client chooses, they can go through the physical motions of adjusting the binoculars. Pause and allow client to bring the image clearly into his/her own focus).
9. (Get confirmation from client that he/she has completed step 7)
10. The binoculars are now perfectly calibrated, and in perfect sync. with your eyes. Everything you see through them now appears close and clear and focused. The image that was so distant and fuzzy before, has now formed into a clear goal, or a change that needs to be made. Perhaps you are now able to give the image a shape, a color, a sound or a name. (Pause. Ask client if they now have clarity and can recognize the image as either a specific goal, or a change that needs to be made. If YES, ask which it is, a goal or a change.) As you look at your goal/change through the perfectly focused binoculars, you are now able to easily RECOGNIZE it with great clarity. See your goal/change CLEARLY and EASILY, CLOSE-UP and perfectly in focus. Experience that wonderful feeling of clarity now as you look through the binoculars to view your goal CLOSE-UP, crystal clear and in perfect focus! (VAKO!)|
Fire Anchor # 1
11. Now HOLD onto that CLEAR, CLOSE-UP image of your goal.
Fire Anchor # 1
12.And as you hold onto that close-up image of your goal/change, gradually remove the binoculars from your eyes and as you do that, realize that you no longer need the binoculars in order to recognize your goal/change clearly, easily in focus and close-up.
Fire Anchor # 1

Ask client (again) if they are now able to clearly identify a goal, or a change that needs to be made. If answer is YES , the Binoculars technique can be followed with the Logical Levels, New Behavior Generator or another NLP technique.

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