one of the classic yet most powerful
techniques in NLP is anchoring stay
tuned to find out how it works
Daymond ear with an Elfie Jim and I'm
going to demonstrate anchoring with an
assistant Natasha and before I do that
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regular basis anchoring is one of the
first techniques that was discovered
when Richard Bandler and John grinder
were creating NLP and they noticed that
Virginia cetera and Fritz Perls two
people that they had modeled NLP after
and even Milton Erickson were using
anchors in different ways and they were
able to code that and model it and be
able to use it whenever they were
helping people develop States or even
overcome limiting states now have you
had any NLP training whatsoever mm-hm
so this is the first time that you've
done anything with an LP yeah and you
don't know what anchoring is no okay so
I've got a completely experienced free
test subject here and she's had no NOP
experience so she doesn't know what I'm
going to do and so she's not just going
along with this all right so I'm not
going to explain too much about what
anchoring is right at first but I'll
explain what I'm doing afterward so do
you have a state where and we can use a
range of different states so it's
something that's very positive like a
feeling that you had at one time where
you were really excited really happy
really resourceful some type of resource
that you would like to have and be a
sort of turn on whenever you would like
to have it
yeah I can think ill time okay so and
what would you call this what would I
call it
yeah like what was what would be the
resource in a state that you would like
to be on um I was feeling really open to
new possibilities and to the future and
to it's already really balanced than
myself okay so we want to give the state
a name and we can also use it as an
auditory anchor which I highly recommend
that if you're going to use anchors that
you include an auditory anchor and I'll
explain why a little bit later on so
would open do your good work too so you
know that I'm what I'm talking about
when I say open you know that I mean
this state mm-hmm okay so you can think
of a time when you felt this it's like
really strong right being very very open
and to opportunities and very balanced
okay so what I want to do is imagine
you're actually there then really step
into yourself as if you're actually
there and feeling everything that you
were feeling and see everything that you
were seeing even here whatever was there
if it was your own voice if it was other
people's voices make sure this is on
sometimes when we associate that's
called associating into a memory
sometimes we don't like or we're not
actually seeing it from our own eyes as
if we were there we put ourselves in the
memory but we don't we're not actually
seeing like through the two places right
here and we're not actually hearing from
hear like the sounds might come from a
different direction or this or how we're
hearing it might come from a different
direction on how we're seeing things
might be coming from different angles
you want to really be there in the same
place that you actually were when this
was happening so we want it to be as
realistic as possible as if you're
actually there
okay let's go from 1 to 10 about how
much you're experiencing this feeling of
openness 5 5 okay so we want to get it
up to closer to attend all right and I'm
assuming that when you were there at
this time when you were experiencing
this it probably felt like a 10 or
pretty close yeah okay so go back into
this make sure you're you're really
associated into this and really take a
moment to really ratchet this up you
know what was that experience like and
where are you feeling it in your body
and really intensified that's right
just like that
and just really know what it's funny but
what it feels like to be open that's
right okay so I don't know if you can
see this on camera but I'm judging from
her physiology that she's really going
into this state and that's when I chose
to find our to set the anchor so go
ahead let that go and relax and you know
come back to here and come back to your
body now
was there another time where you felt
this another memory um you know anything
more recent would probably be better
that you really felt this a similar
state of being really open and balanced
you got it done yeah
okay so again just really associate into
that experience and just be there see
what you saw as if you were actually
there hear what you hear feel what you
felt and really be there and feeling
that openness and that balance
that's right just like that now I think
if you sat in this a little bit more
you'd probably do it even more so go
ahead and do that a little bit more
that's right let's go ahead and let that
go take a deep breath recite the
alphabet backwards okay um now is there
another time that was really powerful
for you or is it you think it's those
those two last two experiences were
probably the strongest yeah let's do a
stronger similar memory okay
so choose one of them doesn't matter
which one and revisit and really go back
into it and this time see if you can
take it even deeper see if you can bring
that state all the way through ten are
really associating and reliving that
experience
that's right so
okay again I'm using physiological cues
I'm just noticing how her physiology is
shifting a bit to know that she's really
going into this state so go ahead and
take a deep breath come out of that come
back to now so the way that anchoring
works is that when you take an intense
state and it can be a negative one but
we don't want to use negative ones we
want to use positive ones and you
combine that with a say a touch a sound
and sometimes even a visual like we see
certain things and it triggers a state
and so again that can be good in that
can be bad so what I use for you is I
used to I used an audio and a touch so
we want to test we want to test this and
see if it actually works
and it doesn't always work sometimes you
have to reset the anchor but if I just
touch you here so you went back into the
stay yeah yeah okay so Ben let that go
and take a deep breath and remember what
you ate for breakfast and just kind of
snap her out of the states because we
want to test this again so I used an
auditory anchor and so I want to see if
that works and I'll explain a little bit
why that's important in just a moment
but if I say that's right did it go that
was strong going you touch yeah not as
much so auditory anchors don't always
take us as well as the as the
kinesthetic anchors kinesthetic anchors
going to be more powerful the reason why
I would like to do auditory anchors is I
could be across from the room or across
the room and tell her that's right and
she would go into the state you know
that I wanted her to go into in this
case it wasn't strong but and we can do
more visual type stuff so what happens
when I do that it works a good stuff so
I just pointed to where I where the
anchor was said and she went into it so
there was something of a visual anchor
there and made her think about the
feeling and made her probably think
about the touch but I didn't touch her I
just pointed to it so cool so that's the
great thing about anchors so anytime you
want to go into
state you can actually just touch your
own anchor and feel that openness and
that balance and of course if I'm in her
presence and say I'm her coach and I
want her to go back into the state or
we're about to coach and I want her to
be in a state of being open and balanced
I can just say how are you doing and I
can see from your physiology she takes a
deep breath and she smiles and lets me
know that she's going into that state so
what you think about them I like that
it's good good say simple but then it is
very much yeah very simple and that
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