Ultimate Mind Control

Making fear your best friend....

As a presenter you want and must develop command, confidence and conviction. Anchoring is used extensively by top performers, athletes, politicians, teachers and police... Anchors are everywhere!

An anchor is any situation that evokes a consistent response pattern from an individual. It can be any stimulus that is received via any of the fives senses, singularly or in a combination. Anchoring is the tendency for any one element of an experience to bring back the entire experience.

Applying Anchors

Applying Anchors The sensations in an experience tend to rise and fade. Set the anchor just as the experience is reaching a peak, and release it as soon as, or just before the feeling begins to fade.

Anchoring techniques are easy to learn and can be adapted to all kinds of circumstances.

1. Select a feeling that you would like to have in a particular situation. (For example, you might want to feel motivated and energised when you stand up to present.)

2. Take a few moments to remember a time when you had that feeling. Be sure to choose a strong and powerful example. If you don't have one in your past, imagine what it would be like to feel this way. It will still work.

3. Close your eyes and remember that feeling in vivid detail. Put yourself back there now and relive it in all its intensity. To enhance the experience you can experiment with the following:

   • make the image sharper

   • make the colours brighter

   • bring the image closer

   • shift the image position on your mental screen

   • make the sounds clearer

   • choose a word that enhances the feeling (for example, "Yes!", " Brilliant!", etc.)

4. When your feeling is at its most intense, create a physical association by making a unique gesture (for example, squeeze your thumb, make a fist, press your middle finger and thumb together or pull your earlobe).

5. As the feeling fades, release your 'anchor' and relax.