The Secret to always being in the Right State of Mind – NLP Anchoring

If there’s anything that drives so many of the students of Opt2xl’s (http://www.opt2xl.co.uk) NLP courses in Birmingham to book their training, it is simply a wish to feel better about their lives and to maybe help others do the same. People wish that they could always be able to control their emotions by staying calm and relaxed even in situations where they feel highly provoked or otherwise stressed. The great news is that there is a very simple NLP technique, known as ‘Anchoring’, which can immediately help to put you into a totally resourceful state of mind whatever the circumstances.

                   

Whatever state you want to put yourself into straight away – happy, confident, cheerful, energetic, calm, creative or anything else – anchoring is a proven way of doing it. To understand NLP anchoring more, just consider the role of a ship’s anchor. It’s there to keep a ship in place when it is not sailing, ensuring that the ship is not pushed away by the ocean waves. The effect is that the ship remains locked in a specific location, almost irrespective of what is happening around it.

NLP Anchors have very much the same effect on your state of mind, being triggers that many of those who have attended NLP coaching in Birmingham turn to again and again. They have their origins in Russian physiologist and psychologist Ivan Pavlov’s experiments with dogs. He found that using sounds such as ringing bells to call his dogs to food led to the dogs associating the ringing of the bell with food. As the process was repeated time and time again, the dogs actually salivated on hearing the bell ringing, having been conditioned to respond to the ringing bell in the same way they responded to the food actually being there.

Everyone creates naturally occurring Anchors around them which will change their state automatically. When anyone experiences a highly associated state or emotion and a stimulus is applied an Anchor is created. It maybe the smell of a favourite perfume or aftershave or listening to a favourite song or the way they are touched that evokes fond memories and positive emotions. Sometimes these Anchors may cause the opposite for the person to fall unresourceful maybe the sound of the alarm clock first thing on a Monday morning when they have to go to work! It’s clear, then, that certain responses can be conditioned to certain Anchors using NLP.

An NLP practitioner in Birmingham will get their client to associate a unique trigger to a specific state, by repeating a process like that of Pavlov with his dogs. Once the Anchor is set, you will be able to trigger that anchor in future to immediately bring you into that state. When you are feeling happy, for example, you may press the tips of two of your fingers together on your left hand for between 5 and 15 seconds, when the feeling starts to subside you release your fingers. Once you have repeated that process around five times you can test by pressing the fingertips together and you should feel that wonderful feeling of being happy. You will in future be in a state of happiness whenever you press those two fingertips together of your left hand.

The best states to Anchor are naturally occurring states when you are experiencing them in the moment. The next best are remembering or re-living the memory of past occasions when you were in that state. If you don’t have any relevant past experiences, you can construct new images or sounds of situations that would put you in that state although these are least preferable. The Anchors, meanwhile, can be anything from touches of a specific area of the body to saying a word or hearing a certain piece of music – anything that your sensory cells can pick up.

Anchoring is therefore just one of the many powerful secrets for transforming your life and the lives of others that you will learn about as a result of NLP training in Birmingham from a highly respected, experienced and reputable provider like Opt2xl (http://www.opt2xl.co.uk). 

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