Future Pacing
Future pacing is a type of Mental Imagery, a powerful way to anchor or connect changes and resources to future situations or a particular event (such as a sporting performance).
Usually practitioners do future pacing at the end of an NLP process to ensure the changes are available outside in the everyday world. It is easy to respond resourcefully when there is no immediate threat or pressure.
Mental Imagery - Creating Your Future
Top sports people and communicators often use mental imagery or rehearsal to improve their performance. Bandler and Grinder developed what they called Future Pacing as a way to test changes achieved during an NLP session and to make sure these changes carried through to real life.
Quick Skill Building With the New Behavior Generator
The New Behavior Generator is an NLP technique using mental imagery or rehearsal for getting long-term outcomes. Outcomes usually require ongoing behavior and responses. To get that qualification for instance you need many small skills, such as persistence, being able to keep the vision and/or optimism.

