NLP – How does Anchoring Work?

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.

Everyone has a series of internal reps that go through their brains at any moment. How to link them up to an anchor to recall this state at will? This is Anchoring. Triggers can be like to dislike or a swish pattern. Can you remember a time when you were totally X’d? Can you remember a specific time?

Now what happens is that your internal representational system brings back the pictures, sounds and feeling of that time and as a result you experience the same state as you did at the time. When used like this you are able to bring yourself to a positive state at any time you need to.

Now to be able to go back to a time might not be something that you can do every time you need a state change. So Anchoring is using that stat and a stimulus or pressure applied to a part of your body.

Some people use the knuckle on your hand or your ear lobe, the process is to apply pressure at the peak of that recalled state. Some people even apply more than one state to one area this is called stacking. This gives a blend like a cocktail of positive resourcefulness at any time you need it.

Category : NLP Posted on August 17, 2009