How to use the incredible power of anchoring to your benefit

Some sounds, pictures, smells, tastes or tactile sensations affect us in special ways. Such stimuli are called anchors in the field of Neuro Linguistic Programming [NLP]. A particular stimulus that is connected to a person’s particular behavior, feeling, or thought is an anchor. The process of making an anchor is called anchoring.

Anchoring works with the subconscious mind. There for, it is extremely powerful. You get anchored to many different stimuli in your surroundings. When a stimulus gets anchored with a negative behavior, it is a disadvantage to you. When you know how anchoring works, you can break bad anchors and create more useful anchors to your benefit.

When a certain stimulus occurs repeatedly when you are in a deep, relaxed, sensitive trance, a connection is made between the stimulus and the trance. Every one lives in different trances moment by moment and is exposed to various stimuli all the time. An anchor is created if a trance is intense, deep, or powerful and also if the associated stimulus occurs repeatedly when the trance is at its highest intensity.

When this happens again and again, the stimuli-trance connection grows stronger and stronger. When such a strong connection is established, the stimulus can be purposely used to trigger the trance. In other words, an anchor is created.

You can create an anchor to any trance you like. You can test the how effective your anchor is too. You have to follow the steps below in order to make an anchor successfully.

• If your trance choice is power, close your eyes, relax, sit straight, and relive in a very powerful moment of your life, seeing what was there then in your mind’s eye, hearing the sounds, feeling other sensations. You must be totally absorbed in the desired trance, both physically and mentally.
• Produce the stimulus when the trance is at its peak. You can feel it when the trance comes to the peak. Make sure the stimulus is not an ordinary, day to day one. Make it an uncommon one such as pushing your left finger back words with your right hand, pressing your left wrist with your right hand etc.
• You have to repeat the stimulus in the same manner.

Continue this several times a day, for a few days. When the anchor is established, you can trigger off the trance by just producing the stimulus. Keep repeating those steps until you are able to do that.

Now let’s see how you could collapse an unwanted anchor.

• Close your eyes. As before, in your mind, go to a moment of your life when you felt really powerful. See, hear, feel what there was, in your mind. When the feeling of power comes to its peak, pretend to take that feeling to your right hand. Imagine it clasped in your right hand, a bright and warm ball of energy.
• Now relive in a miserable, awful, helpless moment of your life in the same way. When the unpleasant feeling comes to its peak, pretend take it to your left hand. Imagine it clasped in your left hand, a dark and cold orb of energy.
• Now you are set to collapse the bad anchor. Clap your hands together and imagine the cold, dark energy in your left hand is overcome by the warm, bright energy in your right hand.
• Repeat this a few times and recall that unpleasant moment of your life. If the collapsing has worked, you will fell that it is just a mare memory and not so intense. If it is still intense, you have to repeat the collapsing steps till the unpleasant incident becomes a mare memory with out any power to make you feel uncomfortable.

There you are! You know how to benefit from anchoring now. Integrate it in to your overall self-improvement scheme. Start off and make a positive change in your life.