Thread: Flowstate & anchoring

Hi

(I'm a NLP newbie)

I'm trying to anchor my flowstate to a body movement (like for example squeece thumb and middle finger together). So I can get into my flow whenever I want by squeecing my fingers (for example in a nightclub, before I approach a girl )

When I exercise for this I think of a situation where I was in flow and then squeece my fingers.

I wonder if what I'm doing is wrong here. You see I think of a situation where I was in flow, but I don't get in flow by thinking about it. In my mind I see pictures of situation I was in flow, and also hear the sound related to those pictures (I guess it's called visualization).

So I wonder if this exercise to be effective I need to come in flow each time I exercise it?

Hi Audin,

We're all newbies - if we lose that sense of niave curiousity and interest, we're not NLP'ers!

If you're exploring anything that could work you're doing what's right, you just need to develop it so you get better results.

You want to anchor a useful state, so yes you need to be access that state, or at least a small shadow of that state - because if you even only access a small shadow of the state you want, you can find ways of amplifying it.

However I'm curious, are you saying you can access pictures of you being in a flow state - but can't yet access the feelings?

Michael