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

5 The number of intermediary states you need will depend

on the intensity of the first state and the gap between the

first and the destination state. Repeat this process until

you have anchored all the intermediary states and the final

destination state.

6Test the anchors to make sure that they all work, being sure

to break state between each one. If any of them are not yet

fully anchored, return to experiencing and anchoring them

until they are.

7 Now fire the first anchor and when you are fully in that first

state, fire the second anchor simultaneously and as you

experience that second state approaching its peak, remove

the first anchor and, continuing to hold the second one, fire

the third one. (You are always linking each state with the

next one in this way.) As the third one builds, remove the

second anchor and fire the next one. You should

experience yourself moving through each state in turn and

as you do so you are connecting them together in a chain.

Do this until you have reached the destination state.

When you have the destination state, fully remove the

previous anchor and fully experience this final resourceful

state. Break state. This is important so that you when you

repeat the whole process to check that it works, you want to

ensure that you end on the destination state and don’t loop

it back to the unresourceful state that you started with.

8 Repeat step 7 until you have the states chained together.

9 Now fire the first anchor. If you have chained the states

together successfully, you will go through the chain you

have created for yourself and automatically move through

the states, finishing at the destination state.

It is not that we don’t do this already—we do. However,

without thought and care we tend to create chains that either

are not very efficient (e.g., it takes longer than it needs to get

out of an unresourceful state), or we have created chains that

take us to places potentially even less resourceful than the

one we started with. How often have you begun a day feeling

a little gloomy and then got frustrated with yourself for doing

that, which led to your getting annoyed and then stressed and

so on? How much more desirable is it to find that if you do get

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