Installing an Anchor Exercise
Installing an Anchor Exercise
Jimmy Petruzzi
1: Decide on a specific event you wish to access a particular state of mind (confidence, motivation) for, i.e. presentation, interview, and meeting
2: Decide on the state you want to anchor – e.g. being calm and relaxed, confident, motivated etc;
3: Choose an anchor (or anchors) that you wish to trigger that state – e.g. press thumb and middle finger together; flick wrist band
4: Recall a memory or imagine a situation where you can experience that state – e.g. recall a situation where you were totally calm, relaxed, confident etc; and fully associate to that memory or feelings
Close your eyes and notice what you saw
Felt
heard
5: When the experience is vivid and you are in desired state the desired through to the peak of its intensity, squeeze your thumb and middle finger together; flick your wrist band.
6: Release the anchors when the experience begins to fade;
7: Now do something else – open your eyes, count down from 10 to break the state and distract yourself.
Repeat the steps above several times, each time trying to make the memory more vivid (not required when the anchor is established at the high point of a real experience, but you can strengthen the anchor by establishing it at the high point of several such experiences);
8: Apply the anchor and check that the required state occurs;
9; Future pace and imagine your forth coming event and using your anchor
KEYS TO ANCHORING
INTENSITY of the experience.
An anchor should be applied when you are fully associated in an intense state. The more intense the experience, the better the anchor will connect.
TIMING of the anchor.
When you reach the beginning of the state, apply the anchor. When you reach its peak, let it go. This can vary typically from five to fifteen seconds. for example if your anchoring confidence as soon as your reliving a time you were confident apply the anchor as soon as you first have the feelings and release just as you reach peak.
Stack the Anchor
The anchor has to be repeated and reinforced in the same way from time to time.
Every time you receive praise, recognition, stack your anchor to re enforce the positive feelings.
NUMBER of times.
Repetition of the stimulus, the number of times the stimulus is applied. The more often, the more powerful will be the anchor. If you keep adding, or stacking, anchors, it becomes even more powerful.
You now have a powerful technique to help you get the best out of your self in any situation
Another way to get into a resourceful state of mind immediately is:
NLP Physiology Strategy
By changing the way you move your body, you can have a subtle but important influence on the way you feel
Here’s a quick experiment to illustrate this point:
1. Try to feel depressed as you jump up and down and shake your hands in the air.
2. Try to feel confident as you slump your shoulders and look down.
3. Try to feel tired and listless as you march around the room.
Changing your physiology is probably the simplest way to change your frame of mind in an instant
The technique is something you can work on is practise for a few minutes are day correcting your posture, bringing your shoulders back, back straight and head up, get in front of a mirror , and work on your walking.
Exercise
step 1: Stand up straight in front of a mirror.
step 2: put your shoulders back with your head held high.
step 3: stand in that position for 1 minute.
step 4: Walk in that position, practise pacing.
step 5: Whilst pacing in your position of power and confidence, focus on 5 of your best qualities.