Sliding Anchors

Anchoring is a stimulus-response tool that we generally use in NLP to get a client into a resourceful state. Essentially we use a certain word/tone or touch when the client is in a resourceful state. Then by saying that particular word in that particular tone we can make the client feel resourceful again.

A sliding anchor is a specific anchoring technique intended to increase the power of an anchor. A sliding anchor is an anchor that we move or slide as the intensity of an experience increases.

Let's give an example: 

• Say we want to use a kinesthetic anchor, we would get our client to think of a time that they felt particularly resourceful, say confidence, and then touch the client with our hand, perhaps on their wrist.
• As we continue to get the client to think of that time that they felt confident building that feeling up we begin to move our hand from their wrist, further up their forearm.
• The client's unconscious mind begins to associate their level of confidence with the touch on their arm, the higher the touch the greater the confidence.
• Therefore when we fire the anchor by touching the client's wrist they will begin to feel confident, and as we slide our touch higher up their wrist and forearm the feeling of confidence will increase.

Shawn

NYC NLP

Collapsing anchors

Anchoring is the process in NLP of attaching a stimulus to a response, a sort of kindly Pavlovian conditioning.

So for example, we ask a client to imagine a positive experience then touch their arm or hand as that experience reaches a peak of intensity.

Collapsing anchors is a process whereby we anchor a negative experience to one stimulus, say our client is in a negative state:

• we touch the knuckle on the index finger on their right hand to anchor the negative state.
•  We then ask them to think of a positive experience and when that experience peaks we touch the knuckle on the middle finger on their right hand.
  
• We then fire both anchors at the same time. The positive and negative states both seek to be present in the client's physiology at the same time.
• Typically we will see the client go through a state of confusion.
• If the positive state is large enough, the client will end up in a positive state.

Collapsing anchors is a principle that is used in the NLP coaching model, and the NLP Meta pattern.

Shawn Carson

NLP Training New York

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NLP Top Ten Neurolinguistic Programming Tools (Techniques 1 Through 5)

By Shawn Carson

The article and its sister article describe some of our favorite techniques in neuro linguistic programming (nlp). We teach these in New York. The second part of this article will discuss techniques 6 through 10, the first 5 are discussed here.



The techniques should only be used by properly qualified persons. People with medical conditions should seek qualified medical assistance.



➢Nlp technique 1: six step reframe



The NLP 6 step reframe is a technique for discovering the higher intention of an behavior. For example a client may overeat and may wish to use nlp for weight control. By using the 6 step reframe she may discover that her eating habits arise from her unconscious wish to feel comforted and cared for. By identifying other ways to satisfy this intention, she can redirect this positive intention into a behavior which is more ecological for her, for example to spend more time with friends and family.



➢Nlp technique 2: Swish



The NLP swish pattern is a technique for anchoring an image of how we want to be, onto a situation that normally causes us to act in an unresourceful fashion. Let’s continue the example relating to over eating. Suppose the client says that hse over eats mostly at home, browsing on foods in the fridge. Using the swish pattern we might ask her to form a picture of herself as she would be when she has moved beyond her weight control issue. Perhaps she sees an image of herself as powerful and in control. We would then ask her to see exactly what she sees as she reaches for the fridge door (i.e. an associated picture of her hand reaching for the handle to the fridge), and as she sees this “swish” the image of herself as she wants to be into her view, overlaying the old picture of her hand.



➢NLP technique 3: Self Anchor for Resourceful State



Anchoring is a basic technique of neurolinguistic programming, where a resourceful state is attached to a certain touch (such as squeezing thumb and middle finger together for example) or picture or sound/word. Teaching this technique to a weight-loss client, and teaching them to pick their own resourceful state and their own anchor, gives them control. As they practice the anchor they will begin tor realize now how easy it is to control your own state, and will begin to make more resourceful choices in their life.



➢NLP Technique 4: Visual Squash



The nlp visual squash is a technique to deal with competing parts, as in “part of me wants to do this, but part of me wants to do that”. In NLP terms this is a result of what is called “exclusive or’s” i.e. I can either be this or that (but not both). By using the visual squash technique we reconcile the intentions of each the parts (ie what they actually want for us) into a larger “part” that incorporates the intentions of both parts.



➢NLP Technique 5: Reimprinting



Using the neurolinguistic programming technique of reimprinting we take our client on a journey back to an earlier time, possibly childhood. By imagining a childhood scene we can choose resources that, had they been available to members of the family at the time, would have changed the experience. By changing the childhood experience, we can feel more resourceful and powerful now.



About the Author: Shawn Carson is director of the International Center for Positive Change and Hypnosis in NY, offering Neuro linguistic programming NLP training in New York, NLP practitioner and master practitioner training, hypnosis, personal change, lose weight, stop smoking, goals, overcome procrastination. Business coaching, personal coaching.



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Fear of Driving

One of the more interesting issues we see repeatedly in our New York practice is fear of driving. Because of New York's excellent public transport system, and horrendous parking costs, car ownership is not as widespread as it is in other parts of the US, nor is car ownership a social badge.

As a result many young people do not learn how to drive at an early age and find themselves needing to learn in their thirties or later when they decide to move out of New York City.

There are many techniques one can use for fear of driving, including the phobia cure, EFT, anchoring and collapsing anchors. These techniques can clear the issues surrounding driving fears quickly and easily.

Shawn Carson