It appears that some people have a belief that submodality work is actually based on an objective score. It isn’t. In reality, to be able to measure your submodalities requires one to have the ability to manage that expectation. Your subjective measure is based on your perceptions. So, for example, you may have the opinion that one room is bright and the other is dark. In reality, if we used actual measurements, you may discover that the latter room is actually brighter. But it doesn’t matter! What matters is that your perception tells you that the former room is brighter.
Your mind codes experiences based on perception, not based on reality. Submodalities opens up your awareness of this. In addition, don’t expect everyone to be able to use submodalities. There are a few people who need to take more time getting used to it because they have never played with their mental representations before. I’ve encountered people who are less sensitive to visual submodalities, but have a better olfactory sense for instance. They can “smell” things that create mental pictures. Thus, for such people, submodality elicitation will take a different form instead of the regular submodality checklist.