Where are you anchored?
Where are you anchored?
Where are you anchored?
The average person's habitual thoughts, emotional states, lifestyle preferences, and behaviors -and thus their personal circumstances - are primarily determined by the principles of conditioning. Two basic kinds of learning or conditioning occur:
Classical conditioning happens when a person (animal as well) learns to associate a neutral stimulus (signal) with a stimulus that has intrinsic meaning based on how closely in time the two stimuli are presented.
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician Is widely known for first describing the phenomena of how he was able to train his many dogs to drool on command. The work that made Pavlov a household name in psychology actually began as a study in digestion. He was looking at the digestive process in dogs, especially the interaction between salivation and the action of the stomach. He realized they were closely linked by reflexes in the autonomic nervous system. Without salivation, the stomach didn't get the message to start digesting. Pavlov wanted to see if external stimuli could affect this process, so he rang a metronome at the same time he gave the experimental dogs food. After a while, the dogs -- which before only salivated when they saw and ate their food -- would begin to salivate when the metronome sounded, even if no food were present.
A powerful point to note: The classic example of classic conditioning is a dog's ability to associate the sound of a bell - something that originally has no meaning to the dog- with the presentation of food -something that has a lot of meaning for the dog - a few moments later.
Instrumental conditioning also known as operant behavior happens when an animal learns to perform particular behaviors in order to obtain an intrinsically rewarding stimulus. Instrumental conditioning has occurred when a trained dolphin leaps out of the water in order to obtain a fish reward, and when a human employee shows up at work in exchange for a paycheck.
Against this backdrop all of us are sitting ducks offering our vulnerability to people and corporations with a strong vested interest in conditioning us to maintain the (false) belief that we need some kind of external validation to feel a certain way. Marketers spend billions of dollars each year to convince us that we need to drink their coffee, eat their chicken, wear their sun shades, drive their cars, and shop at their stores to feel happy, cool, stylish, trendy, popular, confident, successful, etc.
TV commercials will show us a sexy person smoking to cause us to associate sexiness with smoking. Beer commercials are notorious for showing women in bikinis so that we will associate beer with sex. Fast food commercials show happy families clogging their arteries to cause us to associate eating garbage with being happy.
What's happening here is that you are being anchored'. By associating for example beer with sex they make a connection between these two and manipulate us to believe that by drinking in this case their brand of beer, we become sexy or that we will get lucky that night. TV commercial makers use anchoring to manipulate us. This technique has been used AGAINST us countless times.
We are affected by anchors throughout our lives and go into a good mood or a bad one ... feel motivated to do one thing or to do another ... feel confident and resourceful or the opposite. We are responding to anchors, but we may not know what they are. These anchors have been built up accidentally. In fact, we often think that our mood has nothing to do with us and that our moods occur by chance
Today anchoring is generally considered part of the body of knowledge known as NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) which has its roots in Pavlovian behavior modification. Within NLP these "Anchors" can be consciously developed and applied to do such things as trigger a change to a positive emotional state. This means you can, for example, stay calm and relaxed whatever other people are doing or however provoking they may be. You do this by anchoring states of mind so you can fire the anchor and establish the state instantly. In addition to this you can "stack" anchors. Literally add more than one on top of another to intensify the feeling or response. Instead of associating one you associate a series of events with one specific anchor this will increase the intensity of response.
When you understand that you have the innate ability to consciously direct your thoughts to create any feeling you want, whenever you want, you will be much more free, since you'll gain the power of conscious control over your own emotional states. This is a skill that takes practice, but it is a learnable one. For example, in a matter of minutes I can get myself to feel any emotion I want, and for those I've already anchored, I can put myself into that state in less than 5 seconds. This is nothing unique experienced actors can do it too. If an actor can laugh uproariously or cry rivers of tears or shout with intense anger over something completely fake, then you can certainly learn to be 100% confident on que as well (and really experience the genuine emotion.
Now, here are keys to let you take control of your anchoring. It is possible to apply this same basic technique to almost any problem. Smoking, overeating, nails biting, fear of public speaking, work pressure, lack of enthusiasm, even attracting love. Here is how positive anchoring works:
Step 1.
Think of three times in your life when you felt very powerful and in control of your life and yourself. Write all these memorable times down, describing each memory in one sentence
Step 2.
Stand alone in a room and think of the first situation or the first memory. Bring it to life by recalling it in full color with sound and anything else that could make it real to you.
Step 3.
At the precise moment when you feel fully back in that moment, slap your left shoulder with your right hand and say, "Awesome!"
Step 4.
Repeat steps 1-3 for each of the three memories.
Remember, you want to anchor each feeling by slapping your shoulder when you feel the memory at its MOST INTENSE moment.
Now that you have the anchor installed, you can "fire it off" as needed. The next time you are in a situation requiring confidence, slap your left shoulder with your right hand and say, "Power!" Just as sure as Pavlov's dogs salivated when they heard that bell, and just as sure as countless people associate smoking with sexiness, you will feel confidence surging through you because now your mind associates confidence with that slapping motion and the word "Awesome"!
Occasionally feeling a lack of confidence is a normal part of being human. Having an effective strategy for immediately turning this into confidence is a normal part of being outstanding.
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