A guide to staying completely calm and confident in interviews and presentations
Part 3: Anchoring
Part 3: Anchoring
Anyone who has had any involvement with NLP will be familiar with the technique called anchoring as a way of using a resource from the past to help you in the present.
Isn’t it strange, the way that hearing an old song can instantly take you back to a particular time and you find yourself remembering everything about it? Do you find that particular smells also vividly remind you of times and people and feelings? In these examples the music and the smells are called anchors in NLP, and the great thing is that we can create new anchors which will enable us to recreate a feeling or a resource whenever we want. The example I am going to use here is the feeling and resource of confidence.
· Try to find somewhere you can relax and get really comfortable
· When you are feeling really relaxed, recall a time when you felt really confident and in control.
· Vividly re-experience it....
o Remember the sounds
o Remember the sights
o Was it warm or cold?
o Was it day or night?
o If there were one more thing that you could recall to make that feeling even stronger, what would that be?
· Press your thumb and forefinger together (creating an anchor), as you really re-experience those feelings of confidence.
· Repeat this a few times, either with the same event, or if you have other times in your past when you have really felt the resource of confidence, then run the procedure with each of these other events.
· The next time you need to recreate that feeling, just press your thumb and forefinger together and you will start to re-experience it.
You will need to keep practising this technique to keep the effect strong and it will become a great resource for you! Of course you can use this technique to ‘anchor’ any feeling or past resource, for example, a time when you were very motivated, or a time when you were ‘in flow’.
You could also replace the thumb and finger anchor with a particular smell, or a vivid image that you can easily recreate.
Just experiment to find the one that is most effective for you and you can have your chosen resource whenever you need it.
Cathy Simmons
Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner
Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner
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