Help yourself and your clients be the best that they can be. Discover the magic wand to help give your clients whatever resources they need to help them achieve their goals. Anchoring is one of the fundamental NLP techniques; it’s easy to learn and you can use it for yourself and your clients. Whatever personal resources you need, be it a state of confidence, strength, perseverance or determination, concentration, or relaxation to achieve what want
YOU CAN HAVE IT NOW. Whatever it is you do, or want to do, you can do it better ALREADY.
Anchoring the Key to Success
What is a Resource?
A resource is anything that can help you achieve an outcome, make you stronger, help you through a difficult or challenging situation. These can be external resources such as other people, places, possessions, procedures or they can be internal such as positive thought patterns, beliefs, strategies or states.
What is a State?
In NLP terms a state is how we are in any given moment, and of course certain states lend themselves better to successfully completing certain tasks than others! Generally speaking we experience positive states and negative states – in real terms the distinctions are endless.
What anchoring enables us to do is to call upon a particular state, appropriate to the task in hand, using it as a resource for ourselves.
In this way States – Resources - can be used to help your client’s develop belief in their potential to reach their current fitness goals, for example, or improve sporting performance. Essentially we do this by having them focus on other areas of their lives where they have enjoyed success.
Anchoring can be used to help your clients achieve their fitness goals. NLP, however, has many applications, and has been used with outstanding results for many years, particularly in the US, to help sports men and women, and teams, enhance their performance. For those of you who work with elite, (and perhaps not so elite), performers, having an understanding of how you can use NLP with this group will increase your skill base.
As far as the sporting arena is concerned the athlete identifies a resource they feel they need to boost their performance - they will know what it is that is missing that will make all the difference. For a 100m sprinter, for example, it might be that sense of finding every kilo of strength, while a golfer might be more interested in remaining calm and keeping their presence of mind. For a marathon – well it could be endurance! Each individual will know what will work for them.
Incidentally, the technique can be applied to other scenarios; you can use it equally well for an interview, public speaking perhaps, or even a hot date!
What is an Anchor ?
Anchors can be any kind of sensory input (VAKOG)
Notice your responses when you become aware of the following examples:
Road signs and traffic lights, brand images and advertising
Ambulance sirens, radio jingles, “they’re playing our tune.”
Stroking a cat, holding your tennis raquet, golf club
Perfumes, the smell of the locker room, petrol
Chocolate, garlic, gin and tonic
Firing Anchors in Others
You fire anchors in others in personal context and in professional context. For example when you greet people, your smile/facial expression, the words you use, and how you say things will also become anchors as will the way you move or touch them.
Building Anchors in Yourself
Notice each good time you experience and anchor that
Stack the anchors so that you build up a positive resource state. In this way you are training your brain to notice the good times and build a positive resource state
Remember – You are a walking anchor for others.
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