In my last post I gave you a brief introduction to anchoring – a useful tool that can help you adjust to new surroundings when you are experiencing new life changes. Anchoring is one of several different types of NLP tools that an NLP expert can use to help you overcome major life changes.

One of the reasons anchoring is so useful is because it allows you to condition your own emotions to a stimulus that you control. This basic behavioural principle is extremely effective – by associating a “state” to a stimulus, you can experience that state every time you perform the action.

Anchoring for major life changes is even more effective than anchoring for other issues, because the state that you want to experience is powerful – it is the state you lost when you experienced the life change. You want to feel as you did before the major life change occurred, so you can anchor the emotions that you felt before the life change, so that you can access that emotion in your new surroundings.

Anchoring a great example of how both NLP and hypnosis are able to effectively reduce the stress and fear of a new situation, and it is one of several techniques that can make your life transitions easier on your mind and body.

20 September 2010