into a state of confusion, for example, you can lead yourself to
state of curiosity, inquiry, and finally understanding and
insight?
I believe that putting yourself into a resourceful state is a
vital precursor to most situations. You can learn to recognize
which state is most useful to you, for example in:
❏ Giving and receiving feedback.
❏ Solving problems and being creative.
❏ Being assertive.
❏ Listening.
❏ Tackling work that you would not naturally be motivated to
do.
❏ Spending time with your family.
❏ Making a presentation.
❏ Dealing with customers.
❏ Writing.
❏ Going on holiday.
❏ Starting the evening.
More traditional training will teach you what structure to use,
e.g., how to structure appraisal, how to handle objections, how
to plan a presentation. NLP teaches you how to generate the
state that triggers the resources and style you need to achieve
what you want.
One of the characteristics of NLP is that it can accelerate your
ability to learn. NLP is about how to manage change skilfully
and powerfully. If you can manage and facilitate change, you
can learn.
1 Decide on a trigger that you want to use the next time you
experience a state you want to anchor (a specific touch/a
word that you say to yourself/an image).
2 Give yourself an internal alarm so that the next time you
experience a desirable state (which might be quite
unexpected), you get a prompt to anchor it. You could do
Hard-wiring the strategyShortcut to anchoring resourceful states
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