NLP At Work : The Difference That Makes the Difference in Business

You can learn to step quickly

into a resourceful state

6 Now apply both anchors simultaneously. You will feel some

confusion as the two states sort themselves out into a new,

integrated state. If the less resourceful state is still a strong

part of the subsequent state, go back and choose and

anchor an even stronger resourceful state. Repeat the

process. You may also find that it helps to fire the anchor for

the resourceful state for a second or two before also firing

the anchor for the unresourceful state.

7 Now think of a future situation, one that typically in the past

would have triggered off the unresourceful state. What

happens as you think of this situation? If the collapsing

anchors technique has worked, the unresourceful state will

not exist any more.

Some of these techniques may seem quite formal at first, yet

these processes are ones that we are slipping into and out of

through a typical day. What we are doing here is breaking them

down into their constituent parts in a similar way to how we

might learn to drive a car. However, once you master the skill,

you can begin to use it more informally. For example, if you

find yourself slipping into a state of unresourcefuIness, you

can learn to step quickly into a resourceful one. Recall a time

when you felt particularly resourceful and reaccess those

feelings by associating yourself once more into that situation.

Eventually you will find that even the process of switching

from unresourceful to resourceful becomes automatic. Your

unconscious mind makes the switch for you without your even

having to think about it consciously. You will have “hard-wired”

the strategy for resourcefulness by learning to chain anchors.

Sometimes the gap between the unresourceful state and the

resourceful one that you would like in its place can be too wide

to step from one to the other in one go. In such cases it is useful

to learn to move through a series of anchored states to lead

yourself gradually from the least resourceful to the desirable

state. It is worth emphasizing there that it is also important to

know when to stay in what might at first seem to be an

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Chaining resources