How to be in Charge of Your Own Internal State with NLP

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.

There you go, good now that is an example of being in charge of your state. Okay come on back, so you could at any moment choose to be totally motivated or you could choose whatever state you’re in. Now the interesting thing is you’re in charge of your brain, you’re the one who’s running the brain, you’re the one who’s driving the bus so to speak so you really do have the choice by simply paying attention to the internal representations that you use.

Now people have internal representations throughout the entire day, in fact everyone has a series of internal representations that go through their head on a regular basis. How do we capture those? Here’s the question, how do we capture those internal representations and link them so that they’re hooked up to a stimulus or to an anchor so that we can recall that state at will? Well that’s the process of anchoring.

Now with an anchor, we’re going to ask the person, ‘can you remember a time when you were totally Xd’ or whatever that state is; ‘can you remember a specific time?’ So we’re going to ask the person to remember a specific time when they accessed a certain state. And that state is really important, we’re going to catch that state, we’re going to watch the person as they go into the state and we’re going to catch the state as they go into it.

Category : Uncategorized Posted on August 25, 2009