Collapsing Anchors

Collapsing anchors is an NLP technique--if you look at NLP patterns, you'll discover that many of them include it in one form or another. It's useful for all sorts of situation including work on yourself.

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It's based on the Ericksonian hypnosis principle of adding a resource state to a problem context--let's use fear of public speaking as an example.

The problem context is public speaking. The resource state might be calmness. If you could inject calmness into a public speaker, in the public speaking context, they wouldn't be nervous.

Now, NLP has developed a simple, easy to follow format for adding resources to problem contexts--collapsing anchors!

In this case, anchoring is simply developing a trigger for a useful emotion--we can "fire" the anchor to get the emotion back, whenever we want to.

Here's the procedure
1) Define the problem context
2) Figure out a good resource state.
3) Elicit the resource state and anchor it
4) Fire the anchor and take the person into he problem context--making sure the resource emotion is dominant.

That's it for this tip...

See you soon,

Keith Livingston