Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement

by Anthony Robbins

Now ask part X if it’s willing to accept responsibility for generating the new behaviors in appropriate situations when i...

6. Make an ecological check. Now go inside and ask if there are any parts that object to the negotiations that have just taken place or if all parts agree to support you. Then step into the future and imagine a situation that would have triggered the old behavior, and experience using one of your new choices and still achieving the benefits you desire. Step into another situation in the future that wou...

If you get a signal that other parts object to these new choices, you must start from the beginning, identify which part is objecting, what benefits it’s been giving you in the past, and have it work with part X to generate new choices that would maintain the benefi...

Almost any seemingly negative experience can be reframed into a positive. How often have you said, “Someday I’ll probably look back and laugh at this.” Why not look back and laugh at it now? It’s all a matter of perspective.

One of the most important frames to consider is possibilities. We often fall into ruts. We might be getting comfortable results, but we could be getting spectacular results. So please do this exercise. Make a list of five things you’re doing right now that you’re pretty pleased with.

Now imagine them as even better. Spend a few minutes thinking about it. You’ll probably surprise yourself by finding ways your life could be dramatically improved. Possibility re-framing is something we can all do. All it takes is the mental flexibility to be alert for potential and the personal power to take action.

Anchoring is a way to give an experience permanence. We can change our internal representations or our physiology in a moment and create new results, and those changes require conscious thought. However, with anchoring you can create a consistent triggering mechanism that will automatically cause you to create the state you desire in any situation without your having to think about it. When you anchor something effectively enough, it will be there

whenever you want it.

how do anchors get created? Whenever a person is in an intense state where the mind and body are strongly involved together and a specific

stimulus is consistently and simultaneously provided at the peak of the state, the stimulus and the state become neurologically linked. Then, anytime the stimulus is provided, the intense state automatically results.

One of the things that affects the power of an anchor is the intensity of the original state.

let’s review more specifically how you consciously create an anchor for yourself or others.

Basically, there are two simple steps. First you must put yourself, or the person you’re anchoring, into the specific state you wish to anchor. Then you must consistently provide a specific, unique stimulus as the person experiences the peak of that state.

For example, when someone is laughing, he is in a specific congruent state—his whole body is involved at that moment. If you squeeze his ear with a specific and unique pressure and simultaneously make a certain sound several times, you can come back later, provide the stimulus (...

Another way to create a confidence anchor for someone is to ask him to remember a time when he felt the state he wishes to have available on cue, then have him step back into that experience so that he is fully associated and can feel...

see changes in his physiology—facial expressions, posture, breathing. As you see these states nearing their peak, quickly provide a speci...

KEYS TO ANCHORING

Intensity of the State

Timing (Peak of Ex...

Uniqueness of ...

Replication of ...

Once you believe you have an anchor, you need to test it. First get the person into a new or neutral state. The easiest way to do this is to get him to change his physiology or think of something completely different. Then, to test your anchor, simply provide the appropriate stimulus and observe. Is his physiology the same as it was when he was in state? If so, you...

1. For an anchor to be effective, when you provide the stimulus you must have the person in a fully associated, congruent state, with his whole body fully involved. I call this an intense state. The more intense, the e...

2. You must provide the stimulus at the peak of the experience. If you anchor too soon or too late, you won’t capture the full intensity. You can discover the peak of the experience by watching the person go into the state and notice what he does when it begins to fade. Or you can get his help by asking him to tell you as he’s nearing the peak and use that input to calibrate the key moment to provide your unique stimulus.

3. You should choose a unique stimulus. It’s essential that the anchor gives a clear and unmistakable signal to the brain.

The best anchors combine several representational systems—visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and so forth—at one time to form a unique stimulus that the brain can more easily associate with a specific meaning. So anchoring a person with a touch and a certain tone of voice will usually be more effective than anchoring with just a touch.

4. For an anchor to work, you must replicate it exactly. If you put a person in a state and touch his shoulder blade in a specific spot with a specific pressure, you cannot retrigger that anchor later by touching him in a different place or with a different pressure.

HOW TO ANCHOR

1. Clarify the specific outcome you desire to use an anchor for and the specific state that will have the greatest effect in supporting the achievement of that outcome for yourself and/or others. 2. Calibrate baseline experience. 3. Elicit and shape that individual into the desired state through the use of your verbal and nonverbal communication patterns. 4. Use your sensory acuity to determine when the person is at the peak of the state and at that exact moment provide the stimulus (anchor). 5. Test anchor by: a. changing physiology to break state. b. triggering stimulus (anchor), and note if response is the desired state.

Here’s another task: Select three to five states or feelings that you would like to have at your fingertips, then anchor them to a specific part of yourself so that you have easy access to them.

Let’s say you’re the kind of person who has a difficult time making decisions, but you’d like to change. You want to feel more decisive. To anchor the feeling of being able to make a decision quickly, effectively, and easily, you might select the knuckle of your pointer finger. Next, think of a time in your life when you felt totally decisive, step into that situation in your mind, and fully associate to it so you feel the same way you did then. Begin to experience yourself making that great decision from your past. At the peak of the experience, while you feel most decisive, squeeze your knuckle and make a sound in your mind—like the word “yes.” Now think of another such experience, and at the peak of that decision-making process create the same pressure and the same sound. Do this five or six times to stack a series of powerful anchors.

Now think of a decision you need to make—think ...

you need to know. Then reach down and fire off the anchor—and you should be able to make a deci...

WAYS TO CALIBRATE (IDENTIFY) STAT E CHANG E

Note Changes in:

Brea...

location paus...

v...

Eye Mo...

Lower Li...

Po...

Muscle...

Pupil Di...

Skin Color / Re...

V...

predicates tempo timbre t...

Let’s do one last exercise. Put yourself in that powerful, resourceful state and pick the color that’s most resourceful for you. Do the same thing with a shape and a sound and a feeling that you would associate with your most powerful, resourceful state. Then think of a phrase you would say when you were feeling happier, more centered, and stronger than you’ve ever felt before. Next, think of an unpleasant experience, a person who’s a negative anchor, something you’re afraid of. In your mind, put that positive shape around the negative experience. Do it with the utter belief that you can capture the negative feeling within it. Then take your resourceful color and physically blow it all over the negative anchor, with such force that the anchor just dissolves. Hear the sound and feel the feeling that occurs when you’re totally resourceful. Finally

say the thing you would say in your most powerful state. As the negative anchor dissolves into a mist of your favorite color, say the thing that accentuates your power.

This is the key ingredient of success: the ability to eliminate from your own environment triggers that tend to put you in negative or unresourceful states, while installing positive ones in yourself and in others.

One way to do this is to make a chart of the major anchors—positive and negative—in your life. Note whether they’re primarily triggered by visual, auditory, or kinesthetic stimuli. Once you know what your anchors are, you should go about collapsing the negative ones and making best use of the positive ones.