Have you wondered why you like certain foods, drinks, people and not others? How come some people have a terrible association with heights and others spiders?
In NLP training we call this anchoring. Anchoring happens when an emotional state is so strongly associated with a stimulus, that the object or event is associated with that state from then on. .
Just do it!
This exercise is about your inner world and how it can connect to your feelings, emotions and behaviour . All you need to do to begin is relax and go inside.
So we can try something together and this little experiment will allow you to have access to the states for learning that you want your children to have access to.
Wherever you are, get in touch with a really good experience that you've had. As you are inside this experience, notice what's special about it. What is it that is making such a beautiful experience? And allow yourself to drift into this and find something that is so enjoyable that you just get taken away with it.
So now you're really inside this experience, and don't have any judgment on it, it’s absolutely just the one that your deep mine came up and it will be the perfect one. That's right, now allow yourself to be inside this experience, and inside the feelings and the pictures and sounds. If you are still reading this page perhaps you haven't gone away with it so much as you could!! Allow yourself to drift away into this experience and really experience what it's like being you in that situation.
Now, when you're really feeling this experience as strongly as you possibly can, or see the pictures as much as you possibly can, bring in an object, a metaphor or anything to identify this experience, whether it might be a ruler on the table or it might be a finger of your hand or maybe you touch a shirt in a certain way. Maybe you just look out over one window in your room as you remember this internal experience. Okay?
If you need to do this again, go ahead now that you have all the instructions here before you start. Please go ahead and do so this time, really go drift away get inside this experience, this beautiful experience. When the state is peaking, at the same time, associate something in your room or make a picture to remember this state. It may even be a word that you might say in your own head at the same time as experiencing your peak state.
Okay so now, if you've done this experiment correctly, what you'll find is that the two things (the state inside and the thing you associated with it) are now linked with each other. This is what we now call your anchor, so it might be the shirt you touched, the window you looked out of, the picture you have in your mind.
You can test this now. Just bring back that visual image or touch your shirt in that particular way. Or was it the way you looked out of the window whilst having the good state?
So go ahead and test the anchor. Now, you may find that the experience is not 100% of the intensity of the original state, like when you were really drifting away inside it, yet you may find there is enough energy in there to give your body a sense of the chemical reaction, the nice feelings that were associated there.
So anywhere between 50 - 100% of the original intensity will work perfectly. What this means is, as long as the environment is okay for you, you can bring back this experience whenever you choose to do in whatever situation and use it to your advantage..
In NLP, we learn not only to access internal resources and state of mind but also to literally anchor them to a specific stimulus. In a way anchoring is a form of Pavlovian conditioning for people. The amazing thing is that with skill (and consistency), anchors can not only affect you, but also the children, parents, and other people around you.
On the NLP training course, we show you how to make anchoring work for you, so you have the experience of the technique working rather than just the theory.
You can experience NLP from our 22 hour NLP training set with manual and videos:
Part TWO on NLP training - anchoring next week 
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