Into Motivation

If you learn and practise NLP skills, you are opening the doors to taking full responsibility (or maybe that could read response-ability) for your life. Not only can your NLP skills be employed to help you learn more successfully and improve your level of enthusiasm, but they will also allow you to develop into an outstanding communicator. What’s more you will be able to offer your knowledge to other people both in your private and business life.

Something you will frequently hear talked about with respect to NLP skills is resource states. Imagine if you could wave a metaphorical magic wand and feel any way you would like to feel, anytime you like. How great would that be!

There are perhaps a number of instances when you would like to be in more effective command of your emotions, but as yet you have not been able to learn this ability. You will maybe identify with individuals who are afflicted by stage fright. We don’t even have to be in the situation. Merely thinking about it can easily bring us out into a cold sweat. Our imaginations go into overdrive as we review all the other situations when we have felt anxious, and then they amplify all those lousy feelings, safe in the knowledge that it is sure to happen again. And guess what, we are right.

You can see from the example that we actually practise getting into bad resource states, such as feeling worried, on a regular basis. Although these states are not particularly beneficial, we evidently know well the process of state induction and there is no reason why we should not employ the same process to create beneficial resource states.

Given your previously confirmed expertise at resource state induction, how would you like to feel instead of stressed? You would most likely like to be comfortable and confident. There have perhaps been

a lot of other instances when you have encountered these feelings before. Just sit back and think back to when you last felt comfortable and confident. Perhaps it was yesterday or perhaps many years ago. Recall everything about it, from how you was standing, how you were breathing, how you felt, what you saw and what you heard right at that moment.

Now, if you are imagining that you can’t do this because you have not felt this way before, then envision how someone who is calm and confident would stand, breathe and feel. Maybe this is someone you admire for being this way. You may have noticed that sometimes that there little things that trigger memories and all the associated feelings you experienced at the time. Maybe, it is someone giving you a slap on the back that reminds you of how you felt when your father gave you a congratulatory one upon your passing an exam, or perhaps a whiff of a certain perfume brings to mind a romantic dance. These triggers are known as anchors, and as one of your NLP skills, you can choose an appropriate anchor and integrate it into the resource state that you are working on. So, you need to make your chosen state as big and bold as you can and then build in an anchor, such as scratching the tip of your nose. Then, whenever you do this action again, it will bring back the feelings of the resource state automatically.

You are almost certainly now beginning to see the value of practising the NLP skills of producing resource states and anchoring. These are NLP techniques that you can apply to all areas of your life. Of course, the beauty of mastering these skills is that the resulting states will greatly improve your communication skills and have a great influence on the other individuals that you come into contact with.