How Do I Use NLP Loop Break?
Have you ever heard anyone say “count to ten before you reply in anger”? This is a form of NLP Loop
Break at work.
Simply put, you need to start up your frontal cortex to moderate your behaviour. This can be done by
consciously force-starting a different emotion or bodily response. In a situation of stress, this can be
done by counting to ten, or even better, having a pre-prepared “comfort thought” to remind yourself
it’s not really a big deal.
For example, you might have a good weekend coming up, or you might have a nice wife or pet dog or
anything that is a comfort. Once you have your comfort thought, a further good response is to be able
to start laughing “at the situation” even jeering it for not being able to spoil your life. This makes you
more powerful than the stressful situation.
Here’s a visual example of Loop Break to break a stressful situation:
HIPPOCAMPUS (MEMORY)
This feeling matches up with “stress”. Here
I will show you some other memories that
also include this feeling of stress.BODY
Heart rate raised. Muscles
Tensed. What is the correct
response now?HYPOTHALAMUS
Body, please get ready for
stress by increasing heart
rate and tensing muscles.AMYGDALA (EMOTIONS)
Look at these stressful memo-
ries. THIS was the feeling asso-
ciated with those memories.