Stacking Anchors

[Connie]

Hi, peeps!

Here's a question. One of my favorite tools is an achor collapse, or series of anchor collapses. Primarily kinesthetic. I'm using them frequently with clients. When we're working and developing the desired state, I ask: how would you like to feel? What resources, or positive emotions, if you were feeling them in that moment, would lead to the desired behavior? Sometimes they give me a "laundry list" of 10 - 12 feelings.

And I go with it! We blend those good feelings into a wonderful, resourceful concoction, like blending spices in a stew pot. But it takes time to revivify and anchor all those feelings.

The question. Some other techniques I'm learning are basically a conversational anchor collapse and 1 resource is enough to dissolve the problem. Should I be limiting the number of resources in an anchor collapse? I stack them. Would 3 be good, 4, 5? Or should I let the client say what they want in that moment no matter how many spices involved and go with it (which I have been doing).

The upshot. I do this NLP work, but they've come for hypnosis. I do that as well, and when all is said and done I've spent 2+ hours with the client. I'd like to cut down my per client time.

What do you all recommend?

[Merlin]

one anchor is enough.
3, 4, 5, adds what? more feeling? more oomph? yup.
so, amplify the one... turn it up... turn the feelings way up... louder [more], even louder... louder still...

[Poodle]

SPIN IT! Doesn't take but a couple of minutes and the clients have a lot of great feelings going from top to bottom, out their fingers and their toes. (not my idea -- it's from Bandler) and anchor the spinning to an uncommon word so client can "spin" when client wants to.

Pood :)

[Connie]

Thanks, Merlin!

One, huh!? Okayyy, time to experiment. (And I have been rev-ing the feelings up, all of them!)

Say, fear of public speaking. I'll ask what they need. Confidence. But they don't stop there. Relaxation, security, feeling witty, freedom, joy, feeling valued, and so on... Then I'll do MORE. Perhaps a new behavior generator, or a regression/re-imprinting on the originating event causing the fear, and then a hypnotic blitz! So many ways to go, and I want to do several!! I suppose that's the problem. Overkill.

I'm getting great results with what I'm doing right now, but if there's an equally effective, more streamlined way to do things, I'm all for it!! :)

[Don]

I would suggest future pace, making clear what they have, not merely giving what they need. They have a successful public speech. They feel wonderful. People give positive feedback, etc.

[Merlin]

Hi Connie,

one is enuf, not a limit
give them 8, one at each fingertip :)
oh, and throw in a big one to feel good about paying your bill on time ;)

[Connie]

I would suggest future pace, making clear what they have, not merely giving what they need. They have a successful public speech. They feel wonderful. People give positive feedback, etc.

That's part of it, too, of course. Conditioning loops. I future pace, get them to wallow in the positive outcome in all its sensual glory, and then I echo back their comments and pound it home: "Are you sure?" and "How do you know?" Again and again. Intersperced with echoing. Eventually they'll reach a point where they defend this positive outcome strenuously and know that it's a sure thing and that I'm the dunce for still questioning it.

[Poodle]

That's part of it, too, of course. Conditioning loops. I future pace, get them to wallow in the positive outcome in all its sensual glory, and then I echo back their comments and pound it home: "Are you sure?" and "How do you know?" Again and again. Intersperced with echoing. Eventually they'll reach a point where they defend this positive outcome strenuously and know that it's a sure thing and that I'm the dunce for still questioning it.

I totally agree with this.

[Connie]

Igor teaches a really wonderful way to pump this up! PS: I'm heading out to another Igor training next week. Florida! :)