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Understanding how to be in charge of your own internal state is a very useful tool. How do we be in charge of our own internal state? This is really important from the point of view of state control. People are more in charge of our state, or their state than we give them credit for one of the presuppositions of NLP and it came out as the question of ‘who’s driving the bus’ really, ‘who’s in charge of that vehicle that you have inside your head or the vehicle that you use as you go through your daily activity’.

Who’s actually in charge of that particular transportation vehicle? Of course that would be you. You’re in charge of your thinking, you’re the person in charge of what you do. You’re the person who creates the thoughts you have, you’re the person who can choose to think a thought or choose not to think a thought.

Now if you want to be in a really positive state, all you have to do is remember a time when you were in that positive state. Here’s an example, can you remember a time when you were totally motivated? If you would, why don’t you just stop for a moment and go back into the past and remember a time when you were totally motivated. Please remember a specific time and as you go back to that time now, go back to that time and float down into your body, into your body, right into your body, there you go and see what you saw, hear what you heard and feel the feelings of being totally motivated, totally motivated and feel the energy as it goes through your body, feeling totally motivated.

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Here is some great information on learning strategies. Now you may from time to time have someone who comes to you with a problem in learning. It might be a client or a student or someone that wants to learn something. This can work with kids and we have seen some pretty good results with kids.

These are some things that I think you ought to think about when you’re working with a kid. First of all you want the learning strategy to begin in a positive state. If the student or you think of a time when you succeeded and felt good rather than failed and felt bad, you’re going to have a better learning strategy. Learning is really inhibited by having negative emotions and negative states in the person’s physiology at the time so you want the client, you want the child to access and then you want to anchor appropriate resources.

You want to chunk appropriately. I think you want to chunk down the task that you’re working on to avoid overwhelm. Chunking down means getting specific enough so that we’re not overwhelmed about everything. Like, “Oh I’ve got all this homework to do”. “Well what specifically?” Then chunk down and begin to get with working on each of the segments of the homework. Then recycle or go external till you can represent the smaller chunks so as to sequence and prioritise them.

You want to get appropriate feedback relative to the task being learned, which means the feedback that the student receives needs to be relative to the task that the student is learning. You want to make appropriate comparisons that give one a feeling of accomplishment. Do not make any comparisons to experts or to an ideal person, but to your ability in the past. So always compare your own ideas of ability, your own ability with the past and not to an expert.

There’s a couple of things, you need to avoid the dangers of exiting too soon. When you exit too soon when you’re learning something you get premature closure and I don’t know if you know, but I know a lot of people who’ve attained premature closure on a lot of different things. So exit when you’ve learned enough for now and when you’ve learned something well enough to get your outcome.

I think you also should avoid the trap of chasing clarity where you think, ‘I need to know everything about it and be totally clear about it before I proceed. Remember that all important decisions are made on the basis of insufficient information.

I think you should expect not to understand some things and I think those things that a student doesn’t understand can be set aside and you can come back to them later. I think you should avoid getting trapped in bad feelings about not understanding and remember too that understanding itself is a feeling.

Well Anchoring takes place takes in your internal representational system. This is made up of:

• pictures
  Sounds
  Feelings
  Tastes
  Smells
  And self talk

That’s intimately coupled to a state which is (happy state, sad state, motivated state and so forth). That’s intimately coupled to the Physiology, so the relationship between the internal representation and the physiology ends up being the state, and the state is what we anchor in ANCHORING.

Relationship between the internal representational system and physiology is the state, and the state is what we anchor in NLP this is what creates behaviour. How do we be in charge of our own internal state? Well people are more in charge of their state than we give them credit for? One famous NLP quote is a presupposition and that’s “who is driving the bus”? that vehicle you have inside your head. You see you are in charge if your thinking, you choose to think or not to think a thought . Remember a time when you were in a positive state a time you were totally motivated? That is how you elicit it, this proves that you can be in a positive state at any time.

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