Hi Brian,

Its still a journey I'm on..

I think the first part was the realisation that while I understood anchoring 'theoretically' and could happily talk about it I couldn't really do it consciously.

(Which I think relates to a lot of NLP approaches - if you think about them too much - the best moment to do them has already gone.)

The next part was not bothering too much but observing other's states more carefully, so I began to develop a 'feel' as to others states ebbing and flowing. I then found I was able to create a a variety of triggers when people were in useful states. Either to anchor or help amplify them.

Sometimes replaying the trigger would help the other person re access their original state sometimes not.

I then developed a realisation that we're doing this in some ways automatically almost all of the time and the best approach was almost to give myself permission to do what I was doing naturally.

To develop this further I'm working on a number of simple, very repetitive, exercises to further develop anchoring skills when giving presentations. When to point towards me and when to point to other locations in the room etc. etc with the objective that it simply becomes a part of my automatic behaviour that I can use at will.

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Michael
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