Now, you know many efficient ways of influencing your emotional state.
A short play with submodalities enables you to enhance the power of positive experiences, to induce pleasant emotional state weakening at the same time unfavourably recollections.
And how it would be if you could induce any state whenever you want. For example, the whole day you will be relaxed and in stress situation you will immediately get the access to the most useful resources.
As you can induce this state and enhance it, you can also learn how to link these states with appropriate stimuli to generate automatic reactions.
The anchors are used to do that.
You surely know the history of Pawlow and his dogs. Pawlow carried out the experiments concerning the process of salivation in dogs. He had a problem because dogs salivated only when they were given food. However, if dogs heard a specific signal before they were given food after some period they were salivating automatically when they heard the signal, even if they weren’t given a meal.
In this way, completely by accident, the mechanism of classical conditioning, which you can use for your purposes, was discovered.
You just have to associate a positive emotional state with some unique stimulus.
are the simplest kind of anchors.
In this case you link a positive state with a chosen feeling in your body.
You can for example touch some place on your hand, leg or arm, squeeze two fingers. It is important for the feeling to be as unique as it is possible and the reaction shouldn’t be unequivocal.
This procedure is very simple. The precision is very important because the stimulus have to occur at the highest intensity of emotional state.
Think about the emotional state which you would like to be at service and which would be useful in many situations.
Recall the picture of this state, then determine its submodalities and enhance it in a way described in a section: Enhancing of emotional states
While reaching the highest intensity of the state recall the previously established stimulus. You can touch for example some place on your hand.
It’s a very important stage. Stand up, look round and recall the names of last three people whom you saw yesterday. Spell the name of the city you live in backwards
To test the efficiency of this technique you should induce the stimulus and check to what extent the state that occurs is strong and distinct.
If the state is weak or it doesn’t appear it means that the technique was not used properly. You should do your best to:
Watch the movie below as it may help you to understand the technique. It’s difficult to hear some fragments but the whole process is shown so there should not be any problems with comprehension.
I wish you success in anchoring!