Knowing that we represent our world, our external experiences, or our internal thoughts by our five (5) senses or representational systems, V,A,K,O,G, being Visual (seeing), Auditory (hearing and speech), Kinesthetic (touch, feelings, both internal and external), Olfactory (smell), and Gustatory (taste), and that we can further define these five (5) modalities into submodalities, we can be seen, that simply by changing one or more of these submodalities, it will be possible to change our experience or our belief.

Submodalities can be define as either digital or analogue.

A digital submodality is an either or state or position, one of two states. An electric light bulb can be either on or off. The answer can be "yes" or "no", there can be no in between.

As a person is internalising or thinking about an experience, they could be either associated running the experience as if they are actually doing that experience. Alternatively, that person may be thinking about and it is as if they are watching themselves doing that activity, this is called disassociated. The person can have only one experience, associated or disassociated.

An analogue submodality is one that can be on a sliding scale, it can vary between two limits.

A person may describe their experience, their visual submodality as a bright picture or a dark picture. How light or dark could it be? Very light or dark? There can be many variations on a scale of light. Other analogue submodalities could be size, very small, small, big, very big, and all variations between, also sound could be quiet to very loud.