Synesthesia

A two-step internal strategy in which two representational systems are linked together, with one step typically occurring outside of conscious awareness. A common example is 'I want to see how I feel' — a visual-kinesthetic synesthesia in which seeing and feeling are automatically coupled. Synesthesias can be resources (as in the automatic linking of sound and emotion in music) or limitations (as in automatic anxiety triggered by certain visual cues). In NLP, synesthesias are identified through strategy elicitation and can be deliberately created or dismantled.