Application of Anchoring

Application of Anchoring in

Personal and Professional Life

          We have already seen various steps to set an anchor. Anchoring can be used as tool for self help as well as a tool to enhance life change in others. And it is clear from our earlier discussions that anchoring is not something introduced newly but it is part of personal and social life that when we utilize it for a specific reason it becomes an intervention. Moon and stars are very common to us in the sky and babies like it. However when the mother utilizes such scenes to feed child daily it becomes an anchor. If you can be in a resourceful state while sitting in a particular chair it’s anchoring. In fact there is no specific power on the chair! Sometimes a specific song put you in a romantic mood, yes, it’s anchoring. In all these cases a mental state is being anchored with something. Now let us think of how we can utilize anchoring in our personal and professional life.

1.  If you feel too lazy and show no interest in doing things frequently and if you observe no physical problems or illness, it’s definitely an off mood mental state. If the state is repeated frequently it will affect your life. So what is the solution? Create an anchor for a resourceful happy state (a state in which you are able to access all your internal resources). When you feel mood off fire the anchor and you becomes resourceful.

2.  The same kind of anchoring you can utilize when you want to read something seriously or when you want to be in a learning state (to study something seriously). The anchor may be recall a memory of an inspirational speech or listen a recorded one, reading a specific paragraph from a motivational book, see a recorded visual, visualize a particular future happy event etc.

3.   When you feel totally disturbed and stressed and if a particular melody can make you cool play it and relax.  Thus that music is the anchor.

4.   You can create anchors for confidence state and utilize it while addressing the public (to get rid of stage fear) or facing an interview.

5.     You can become more powerful with your resources by stalking anchors every time you elicit it. In this way you can become a wonderful speaker forgetting all your earlier states of shy and stage-fear.  You can prepare children for elocution and make people wonderful speakers using anchoring techniques for confidence (eg. circle of excellence).

6.  You can empower children and those required with specific resourceful states by creating anchors for them and training them to utilize it. You can build anchors for positive states such as ‘keen attention’, ‘feeling comfortable’, ‘love and care’ etc for children.  You will be able to change states from fear to fearless, insecurity to security, disturbed to relax, stressful to cool etc using anchors with children.

7.  Teachers can use anchors to create various learning states in children such as curious, eager, interest, serious etc. Teachers can use different positions and places in the class room as anchors for various states. Say for example a particular side and position for important topics, another place for stories and another place for comedy etc.

8.     Anchors will make wonderful changes in your family if you can utilize for positive changes. You can create anchor for surprises, humour and anticipation with the entire family. If you are planning to go for a picnic trigger the anchor to make the family know it.

9.  Some specific music can be utilized to change the state of patients with mental illness and violence.

10.You can elicit particular emotional state on your client (patient) if you are a therapist by creating anchors. This will enhance your change process and counselling. Anchoring techniques can wonderfully utilize in NLP therapies to make the therapy the most effective.