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How to trigger a happy and relaxed desired emotional state - NLP anchoring

I could not believe my own eyes.

The guy left all of us watching the most impressive and quick transformation I had ever seen in my life. We've met Marco through some friends and the impression he gave us was that he was a REALLY timid, very shy person. So shy that would make a Koala look extrovert. But there was an impressive catch.

First hint came when on a warm day of August we all climbed up some cliff to dive into the sea. But the cliff was high, almost 10 meters, and from the whole group no one dared to jump. It was so scary that only looking down was enough to make your feet tremble. Marc climbed up last (as usual... ) and hid himself in the group. We all did rounds making fun of each other, hiding the fact that we were all terrified with the prospect of that leap. Then Marc moved his slow and kind of weak body out on the edge of the rock. He looked down. Someone said 'Hey Marc why don't YOU give it a try?'. The group laughed sarcastically.

Then Marc did something strange.

He clapped his hands three times and looked back at us. His eyes were very different : ecstatic and he had an unusual smile on his face. Then he jumped. He covered the 10 meters of air like an arrow and hit the surface of the water with a big splash. He then came back up and sat all calmly, like nothing had ever happened. If there were some eucalyptus leaves around he would chew them. There weren't. He didn't chew any. That was the first hint that something was hidden in that triple clap. ..

Do it yourself psychology - NLP .

Most people think that psychology is something that lurks in a dark corner of some mental institution. Well, you will be surprised to learn that psychology ( and not astrology ) is the BEST TOOL of many success people like top athletes and world leaders. There are some techniques around, that can permit you to BE your BEST in literally a matter of seconds. So here is one of them that will let you access a certain positive state at ANY GIVEN MOMENT with almost NO EFFORT from your part. You can use it to tap some . enthusiasm when it is needed, some courage during a competition or just some relaxation when you want to sleep. This work became very known to the public through the applied form of psychology known as Neuro Linguistic Programming. But FIRST, you will need to train yourself to access that state. (Isn't really nasty that 'But'?)

A Training program and a huggy bear

1) Find a quiet and comfortable spot where you can stay uninterrupted for at least 20 minutes and perform the training process. Sit down, put your feet at the floor and make sure you breathe deeply. Let your slippers fell off your feet.

2) Pick a certain emotional state you want to access. It can also be a certain attitude: Curious, happy, ecstatic, resourceful, calm, relaxed, sleepy, orgasmic, whatever the state you want to anchor is, the method remains the same. But attention, because it must be something you have ALREADY experienced in your life. You may use the memory of a film that made you feel with that certain way, a book or even better a real event. Do you remember that time you got that girl to smile to you? Do you remember how GOOD you felt?

3) Pick what kind of trigger you want to use. Will it be a song? Will it be a sound? It can even be a specific body action or a posture: Let's say for reasons of simplicity that you choose it to be a clinched fist. The simpler it is to perform the trigger, the easier it is for you to access that state.

Some visual anchors: Huggy bears Colours Flags Gestures ... The list can be long and I have to get to the beach before 15h so let your fantasy roll... The following anecdote comes from one of Richard Bandler's seminars: During the seminar somebody was caughing a bit too often. So at some point Bandler decided to raise his hand every time that guy was caughing. After a while whenever he was raising his hand the guy and some other people would start to caugh randomly.

Some sound anchors: Any music song. Some particular sound. How many times have you returned from vacations to find out that some song brings out some ecstatic feeling from you having fun at some beach club?

Some physical anchors: Any body posture you have. Huggy bears (when hugged) A touch A smell I personally wrap my hands with a specific way before I go to sleep and I know several people that do the same. I use the same anchor when I want to be calm.

3) Picture retrieval. Close your eyes and go back to that time when you felt that certain way. Bring the pictures up. Put as much details you can remember from that event. Take your time to bring up as much visual details as you can. See the whole event happen again.

4) Sound retrieval. Remember as much as you can from the sounds of that event.

5) Physical sensations. Remember how everything felt around you. Note if it was windy or if it was cold. Revive all details from your body.

6) Intensify. Now make all the pictures, sounds and physical feelings stronger, brighter and bigger. Loop the pictures and mental movies in your mind, for as long as possible. Double the images and make the sounds stronger.

7) Note the emotion and make it even more pure. By now your whole body should feel completely like if it is IN that state. You will probably BE AGAIN completely SUBMERGED in that emotional attitude. Feel the sensations pass through you. Intensify them again and again.

8) Anchor. At the top of your amplification, clinch your fist.

9) Relax. Feel your body relaxing. Repeat steps 6 to 9 at least a 40 times. You can do it during different days.

10) Test the anchor. Clinch your fist. You will get the feeling back all over you. Congratulations! You have now your own personal trigger of some nice state and this way you can use it whenever you want.

Some side notes. The more intense the state, the more powerful the anchor. This is a self hypnotic phenomenon. You must WANT IT TO WORK in order to work. And it works LIKE A CHARM, believe me. This next one is of prime importance. The stimulus/trigger should be applied ONLY when the states AMPLIFIES and the trigger should be removed when the state peaks. Ideally you should anchor at the maximum amplification of that emotional state. If you continue to apply the anchor after the state peaked, then you will anchor a feeling of relaxing and the anchor will not work at its maximum.

If you do not experience the state when you test it and especially if you experience anxiety, then stop applying the anchor. (You will anchor the negative state!) Focus on getting the four facts above right and the number of repetitions will be less important. This technique is very important when combined with attraction. Read out WHY here.

Dark notes - dark like a moonless night.

Sadly the above technique can be used by some other individual in order to make you feel a different, more obscure state. I do not know a better example to show you than the excellent work of Derren Brown. In his TV show 'The Heist', he used the above technology along with other persuasion and suggestion techniques to do the following: With the cover of a motivation seminar and WITHOUT ANY direct suggestion from his part, he SUCCEEDED to make a group from middle management people to commit what they thought was a reckless armed robbery. Watch the video and look out for the different triggers he uses: Green colors, logos, music songs and rubbing their knees. You heard me right for that last one. Just watch it and you'll get what am I talking about. ( If you don't have 10 minutes to watch the whole video just jump to min 6.58 for a simple first glimpse ) The result is a shocking revelation of human nature. Have fun.