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NLP Anchors

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 05/06/2008

An NLP anchor An anchor in NLP, is a term we use to set a state, an action or memory, that can be triggered or fired as required, so that state, action or memory will be recalled and used. It is a mood or state that can be recalled in response to a stimulus.

The earliest form of anchors can be attributed the work of the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov who in the late 1800’s, experimented in what he called, “conditional reflex” (“условный рефлекс”).

Pavlov was experimenting with dogs, and their digestive systems, and whilst undergoing this research, found that the dogs had involuntary automatic reflexes due to certain conditioning, that is to say, that when conditioned with various stimulus, including the ringing of a bell, and that food would be given, then every time that stimulus was fired there would be an involuntary reflex, that is to say the dogs would saliva, even if no food was given.

After Pavlov’s work, Carl Jung, Bertrand Russell, William Sargant and John B. Watson among others, continued furthering more research into conditioning.

In NLP the “P” stands for Programming. It is how the mind is programmed to do certain actions in response to triggers or some stimulus, often involuntary and unconsciously. The stimulus that fires the response is called an anchor.

Anchors are learned, and often takes a number of conditioning actions to make them strong, and when working with clients I will normally run the anchors, three (3) times.

A stimulus can be in any of the five (5) modalities, VAKOG, or rep systems, being Visual (seeing), Auditory (hearing and speech), Kinesthetic (touch, feelings, both internal and external), Olfactory (smell), and Gustatory (taste).

Examples of Anchors.

Visual

You are walking down the main street in any major town, and you see a big red plastic shop sign, with one letter in yellow on it, what would it mean?

MacDonald’s? This is a visual anchor, which will even, depending on your likes or dislikes or preferences towards their food, make your mouth saliva or make you feel sick.

Your national flag or other’s national flags. You instantly recognise your own flag, and know the countries of some of the others.

Auditory

As you are listening to the radio and you hear a certain sound being played, (click to play), what does it remind you of? Perhaps a trip to London, or that it is time to listen to the news?

If you hear your name calling, like your mother’s, you will respond to it. When my mother called my name, depending on the tonality, would depend on my response, run to her if it was a happy high voice, or run away if it was a low, stern voice.
Kinesthetic

Have you ever been touched by someone, a friend, a loved one, a baby, an enemy, and had a certain feeling, may-be butterflies in the tummy? Or perhaps you have cuddled up to your duvet and felt so comfortable?

Olfactory

Walking down the main shopping street, in the shopping mall or supermarket, and you smell fresh baked bread? What do you feel? Hunger? Perhaps the urge to buy a loaf of bread?

Perhaps it is the smell of a hospital or dentist which can spread fear in some people

Gustatory

You eat a certain food or meal that you have not eaten for a long time, a meal that perhaps you eat on holiday, where does your mind, your memories go too?

The taste of a chocolate cake brings happiness to many people, like me.

These are all examples of how our representation systems use anchors to do certain actions or bring back memories, in response to triggers or some stimulus.

Not everyone will have the same anchors. A certain restaurant, a favourite restaurant, will bring happy romantic memories to some, because they have been their with a loved one. Yet, the same restaurant will be disliked by others, as they have had a bad experience, may be the waiters did not give good service, or the food was bad on that one occasion, or they argued with their loved one.

Phobias and fears are set by anchors, perhaps by one intense emotional experience, or a conditioned or by repeating, reoccuring exposure (3 times) can set-up a lifetime problem.

Note:- Phobias and fears can be removed easily, call for an appointment or read blog here or visit www.c4phobias.com

Anchors are around us all day, every day, through music, advertising, objects, people, sight, sounds, tastes, and we do not pay attention to them, but respond to each and everyone.

We can set-up anchors with intention in ourselves and others, to change fears and phobias, to give confidence or relaxation.

See how to set anchors with NLP.

NLP

NLP Associated and Disassociated

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 04/06/2008

We all have internal thoughts about what we have done, what we are doing and will be doing, and these thoughts will use the five (5) modalities, five (5) senses or representational systems, of V,A,K,O,G, being :-

                Visual (seeing),
                Auditory (hearing and speech),
                Kinesthetic (touch, feelings, both internal and external),
                Olfactory (smell),
                Gustatory (taste).

We experience our world by internalising or thinking about about that experience.

Those thoughts could be associated, by running that experience as if we were/are/will be actually doing that experience.

Alternatively, we may be thinking about the experience, and it is as if they are watching ourselves doing that activity, this is called disassociated.

If we describe how we eat in a restaurant, and talk about the type of food, the layout of the table, the taste of the wine, as if we are experiencing it now, as if we are physically doing eating, looking through our own eyes, feeling and tasting the food, we are associated into the experience.

If we describe how we eat in a restaurant, and describe the experience as if we are looking at ourselves from a distance, from another’s point of view, then we are disassociated from the experience.

The person can have only one experience, associated or disassociated.

NLP Thoughts

See from anothers point of view

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 03/06/2008

I like you, get many sayings, thought provoking ideas, jokes and junk emails, but sometimes I get one that makes me sit up, to have a “ah” experience, seeing things from another’s point of view.

Today I was sent a poem which gave me a “ah” experience. OK, a bit of a joke poem, but look below the surface level, there may be some truth in there.

Written by an African kid.

                                                        When I born, I black
                                                        When I grow up, I black

                                                        When I go in Sun, I black
                                                        When I scared, I black

                                                        When I sick, I black
                                                        And when I die, I still black

                                                        And you white fellow
                                                        When you born, you pink
                                                        When you grow up, you white
                                                        When you go in sun, you red

                                                        When you cold, you blue
                                                        When you scared, you yellow

                                                        When you sick, you green
                                                        And when you die, you gray

                                                        And you calling me coloured?

It is how we see and understand our world that leads to problems.

It is when we see things from others points of view, put their shoes on, that we see the real world.

See perceptual positions exercise.

Exercises NLP

NLP Now Fast Phobia Cure

Post author By nlpnow
Post date 02/06/2008

Türkçe versiyonu

The NLP Fast Phobia Cure, is an extremely effective way of removing or replacing a phobia or fear by the use of the imagination and trance, although trance or hypnosis is not required.

Again as mentioned before in my articles, and I must emphasize, that it is not required that the NLP Practitioner needs to know, as with most of NLP work, what the problem is.

NLP is content free.

The set-up of the NLP Fast Phobia Cure will be as the Six Step Reframe, i.e. gain rapport and explain what will be happening.

The process involves the idea of being in a cinema, and the use of association and disassociation. (to follow in the next fewdays, then click to understand).

The client will be asked to run a film in their imagination of the first time an incident occurred, it is of no relevance that the client has any conscious knowledge of what that incident will be, allow the subconscious to do the work.

Firstly, allow the client to enter into a state of relaxation, trance or a sleep like state, and guide them into a cinema.

Once in the cinema, they should sit relaxed looking up at a big white screen.

Inside a cinema Inside a cinema, The Steuben Theatre in Hornell, NY.

The Steuben Theatre in Hornell, NY

At this point ask them to imagine that they can float outside that person sitting relaxed looking up at the big white screen, and see other them sitting there. The client will now be disassociated.

The client should then go to the back of the cinema, and enter the projector room, and look through the little square widow, through which the film shown, down to the other them, sitting, looking up at the big white screen.

Again, the client is disassociated from the other them sitting down in the cinema.

Tell the client that they can run a film, in black and white, no sound, of the first time the incident happened that caused the phobia, “from the beginning before the incident occurred, when they were safe, all the way through to the end, when they were safe, and it was all over and done with.”

They are to watch the other them through the little square window, watching the film on the big white screen.

Run the film three times, from the beginning to the end.

On completion of running the film forwards, run the film backwards three times, with the client watching the other them, disassociated, “from the end when it was all over and done with, to the beginning before it started, when they were safe”.

Let them see the other them, laughing, yet relaxed watching the film running backwards.

On completion, ask the client to leave the projection room, and go back into the cinema, seeing that other them, sitting so relaxed, and ask them to float inside that other them, becoming that other them.

Ask them to leave the cinema.

It is at this point I wish to test my work, and I ask them to become a super hero, leave the cinema, and see themselves, (disassociated), doing the thing they once had a phobia about in a new positive way.

Once they have seen themselves achieving what they wanted, they can then associate back into the new them, becoming that new them, having had done the work.

The Fast Phobia Cure uses association and disassociation, re-patterning memory traces by running the memory backwards of the incident that caused the phobia or fear, and future pacing.

As with all my work, I like to test, and will often ask the client to experience for real, a situation where once they had a phobia or fear.

Visit www.c4phobias.com for more information and book a session.

Eating Out

It is good to look beyond the menu in a restaurant

Post author By
Post date 01/06/2008

It seems that restaurants come and go like the Basil Restaurant here in Norbiton, they change their names on a regular basis, some as many times as they change their menu.

Like any business, a profit has to be made to pay wages, rent and rates, tax and to invest in the future. Although sometimes it is nice to dine in a quiet romantic restaurant, looking into a loved ones eyes, sharing stories and memories, a quiet empty restaurant will not pay the bills.

Perhaps such restaurants have to change the menu. Perhaps they have to change their decor, tables, cutlery, plates. Perhaps they have to change their prices. Perhaps they have to change the attitude of the staff, waiters, cashiers, cooks.

How can they do that?

Perhaps look at other restaurants, at how they are succeeding. Perhaps they should ask their customers as to what they want. Perhaps they should employ consultants.

Here is an example and a lesson on how consultants can make a difference for an organization.

Last week, I took some friends out to a restaurant, and noticed that the waiter who took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket.

It seemed a little strange. When the waiter brought our water and utensils, I noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve our soup I asked, “Why the spoon?“

“Well,” he explained, “the restaurant’s owners hired ABC Consulting to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift.“

As luck would have it, or on purpose, I dropped my spoon and the waiter was able to replace it with his spare.

“I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now.“

I was impressed.

Then I noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s trouser fly. Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies.

So before he walked off, I asked the waiter, “Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?”

“Oh, certainly! string in a bow

Then he lowered his voice. “Did you have a sausage for breakfast? Not everyone is so observant.

That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we could save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of our “you know what“, we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent.”

“After you get it out, how do you put it back?” I asked.

“Well,” he whispered, “I don’t know about the others, but I use the spoon.“

Oh Poo Poo .

Exercises NLP

Six (6) Step Reframe, the process

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 31/05/2008

Türkçe versiyonu

Previously I have given the Six Step Reframe structure, (click here), and some of my readers and participants have asked that I tell them my way of delivering the process.

My first task is to gain rapport and trust with my client, and to establish what their needs or the outcome from the session to be.

An explanation as to the concept of parts is then covered, that there is a conscious and subconscious mind, a creative mind, and a critical mind.

The conscious mind is that mind that we are aware of, our thinking mind, the mind you are reading this article with, the questioning mind.

The subconscious mind, is that mind that we are unaware of, the mind that sits in the background controlling our behaviour, our automotive systems, the none questioning mind that is there to protect us, to do the best for us.

Then there is the creative mind, the mind that can think of new ways of doing things, that is looking methods.

Lastly for the Six Step Reframe, we think of the critical mind, that part of us that finds faults, the negative mind, criticises what we and others do.

To further place the client at ease, an explanation of relaxation, trance or hypnosis is required should the client be unfamiliar with such techniques.

Please click on and read the following links for more information.

Hypnosis – Expectations

Hypnosis – What is it?

Hypnosis – A natural State

Place the client into a trance like state, and take them on a journey. My preferred method is to take them to a cinema, so that I can ask them to watch a film that shows “the good times, the happy times, times that they may have forgotten about“. This is to distract the conscious mind.

I will talk as if I am talking directly to the parts of the mind.

I then set-up some method that the subconscious mind may communicate with me. This could be with the hands resting on the legs, that the index finger of the left hand can lift from the leg for a “YES“, and the index finger of the right hand can lift for a “NO“.

Now that I have established communication with the subconscious mind, and the conscious mind is engaged with good memories, I can begin work.

Firstly I thank the subconscious mind for all that it has done for the client, and all it will be doing in the future, and ask if it has any objection in communicating with me. I wait until I receive an answer, which may or may not be via the finger signals.

As long as I have a signal, the client is communicating with me, which is catch 22.

“*” I ask that the subconscious mind now goes away and find three (3) new alternative ways, which will be positive and beneficial to replace the old way, habit or unwanted behaviour, and to give me a signal when those three new ways have been found.

Wait.

Once I have a signal that three new ways have been found, I then ask the subconscious mind to “take the best of those three ways, and to try it out“, and give a signal when that has been done.

Wait.

Once I have a signal, I ask “are there any objections in doing this new method?“

If there is any objection, I will return to asking the subconscious mind to find a way around that objection, and will loop around to “*” above, until I get a signal that there are no objections. In practice, it is very rare to get objections.

Upon receiving a no objection signal, I then ask the subconscious mind if it will carry out the new method for :-

“three days, three weeks, three months, and for the rest of their life“

and wait for a positive response.

As an added bonus to the client, I ask the subconscious mind if it will “give them something positive for them in the next twenty-four hours to show that this has worked“.

Wait for an appropriate signal.

I then speak to the subconscious mind, and thank it for all it has done and will be doing in the future, and ask to have back the conscious mind.

At this point, the Six Step Reframe concludes, but I like to add-on another step.

This additional step is to get the client to imagine themselves as a super hero, and to see themselves doing the new thing that they want in the new positive and beneficial way, being a future pace.

I hope that this explanation will help those who are interested in the Six Step Reframe and that now there has some structure to it.

Memory Mind Maps PhotoReading

Karan Beri, a fantastic memory for dates and time.

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 30/05/2008

Whilst working in Bahrain, I had the privilege to be with and work with Karan Beri and his mother Gopika Beri.

Karan Beri receiving his certificate from Phillip Holt in Bahrain 2008

Karan Beri receiving his certificate in Bahrain 2008

Karan has the usual social difficulties of the typical autistic savant, but this did not stop him entering into the World Memory Championship held in Bahrain in 2007, organized by Tony Buzan and Dominic O’Brian. I know that Karan hopes to enter this years WMC to be held again in Bahrain this year. I hope I can be there to support him, and see him on my future courses in Bahrain in October and November.

Karan now aged 21, was the only Bahraini to enter the 16th World Memory Championship in 2007, and entered at the last moment with his special memory for dates and numbers, and won special mention by the organisers for his abilities.

I was amazed by Karan’s ability to give the day of the week of any date, from the past or future, in the blink of an eye, and his ability to recall what he was doing or what was happening on a particular day of his life. Even when I asked what we were doing at a specific time during our training, and he could recall what I was teaching.

Karan having failed his high school exams, went on to enter India’s National Open School to pass his exams. He has gone on to become a success in his hotel management hospitality studies at the Baisan Institute of Hospitality and Hotel Management, through his shear determination.

Karan has even overcome his problems of autism to earn a wage and to appear in advertising campaigns.

Supported by his lovely mother and father, I felt very close to Karen during the training, as he did all I asked of him. I hope our time together will have added to his abilities and his love of numbers and calculators.

NLP Presentations

BAŞARISIZLIK DİYE BİR ŞEY YOK

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 29/05/2008

Wow.

How much information is out there about us that we do not know about?

Yet another site. This time GAZIANTEP 27 GAZETESI .

“BAŞARISIZLIK DİYE BİR ŞEY YOK”



Dünyaca ünlü NLP duayeni Phillip Holt, başarısızlık diye bir şey olmadığını, sadece geri bildirimin olduğunu söyledi. GAGİAD’ın daveti üzerine Gaziantep’e gelen Holt, ?Etrafınızdaki insanlara nasıl geri bildirimlerde bulunduğunuz çok önemli. Karşıdan alacağımız tüm tepkiler ya da elde ettiğimiz sonuçlar bizim için geri bildirim yani feedback tir” dedi. Her insanın başarılı olmak isteyeceğine dikkat çeken Holt, ?Ve başarılı insanların gösterdikleri performansları üzerinde yoğunlaştığımızda, nedenlerini sorguladığımızda ve bunu farklı insanlara uyarlamayı başardığımızda NLP?nin özünü benimsemiş oluruz” diye konuştu. GAGİAD Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Yaşar Erturhan, toplantıda yaptığı konuşmada NLP konusunun önemine vurgu yaparak, ?İş yaşamında ve günlük yaşamımızda beşeri ilişkiler alanında iletişim gelişmiş modern toplumların en önemli temel dayanağıdır. İş yaşamında kurumsallaşma ve kurumsal iletişim, günlük yaşamımızda bireysel gelişim ve kişisel iletişim günümüz dünyasında çok önemli bir yere sahiptir. Ve tüm bu alanlarda NLP son yıllarda bir sosyal-psikoloji tekniği olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır” dedi.

NLP Presentations

A Turkish Article on the Gaziantep Telgraf web site

Post author By nlpnowcom
Post date 29/05/2008

Today whilst checking on the web for information, I came across an article on the Telgraf web site in Turkey, reporting on a talk I gave in Gaziantep to the GAGIAD Businessman’s Association. (click to read blog).

I hope it reads well, and tells good things about me.

GAGİAD, NLP uzmanı Phillip Holt’u ağırladı

Gaziantep Genç İşadamları Derneği (GAGİAD), dünyaca ünlü NLP duayeni Phillip Holt’un katılımıyla bir toplantı düzenledi.

GAPGİAD toplantı salonunda düzenlenen ve GAP Yönetim Danışmanlık Yöneticisi Mehpare Şayan Kileci’nin çevirmenliğinde gerçekleşen toplantıya GAGİAD üyelerinin yanı sıra Gaziantep’teki birçok yerel firmanın üst düzey yöneticileri de katıldı.
GAGİAD Yönetim Kurulu Başkanı Yaşar Erturhan, toplantıda yaptığı konuşmada, NLP konusunun önemine vurgu yaparak, “İş yaşamında ve günlük yaşamımızda beşeri ilişkiler alanında iletişim, modern toplumların temel dayanağıdır. İş yaşamında kurumsallaşma ve kurumsal iletişim, günlük yaşamımızda bireysel gelişim ve kişisel iletişim, günümüz dünyasında çok önemli bir yere sahiptir. NLP ise tüm bu alanlarda son yıllarda bir sosyal-psikoloji tekniği olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır.Küresel rekabetin arttığı günümüz
dünyasında kurumların ve kişilerin fark oluşturabilmeleri için NLP gibi tekniklerden yararlanmalarının son derece yararı olacaktır” dedi.
Yaşamında değişiklik, farklılık isteyen kişinin bunu ancak içinde var olan gücü fark edip kendini değiştirmesiyle başarabileceği düşüncesine dayanan NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) tekniğinin kişisel gelişime büyük katkılar sağladığını ifade eden dünyaca ünlü NLP duayeni Phillip Holt ise bu teknikle panik atak rahatsızlığı ve uçak korkusu gibi birçok fobinin üstesinden gelinebileceğini söyledi.
NLP’de görsel, işitsel, kinestetik olmak üzere 3 farklı çapalama tekniğinin olduğunu anlatan Holt, NLP’nin bir parçasının da bu çapaları insanlara öğretme yöntemiyle ilgili olduğunu söyledi. Phillip Holt, “Eğer bir insan bir şeyi başarabiliyorsa bunu herkes yapabilir. Başarısızlık diye bir şey yoktur, sadece geri bildirim vardır. Etrafınızdaki insanlara nasıl geri bildirimlerde bulunduğunuz çok önemli. Karşıdan alacağımız tüm tepkiler ya da elde ettiğimiz sonuçlar bizim için geri bildirim, yani
‘feedback’tir. Her insan başarılı olmak ister. Başarılı insanların gösterdikleri performanslar üzerinde yoğunlaştığımızda, nedenlerini sorguladığımızda ve bunu farklı insanlara uyarlamayı başardığımızda NLP’nin özünü benimsemiş oluruz” dedi.