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