NLP Skills: How To Create Helpful Resource States
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) delivers a complete variety of approaches and methods for bringing about change in both your everyday life and the everyday life of loved ones and everybody else too. When you practise your NLP skills ongoingly, then you will start to discover that the quality of your relationships and your communication will improve significantly. Moreover, your NLP skills will help you to be able to achieve things better and more quickly.
The topic of this piece is resource states, as talked about in the context of NLP skills. Suppose you were able to wave a metaphorical magic wand and feel any way you want to feel, whenever you like. Just how wonderful would that be!
You recognize that there are times when we wish that we could behave differently. You will conceivably identify with those who have problems with stage fright. We do not actually have to be in the situation. Just thinking about it can bring us out into a cold sweat. Our imaginations run riot as we return to all the other times when we have felt anxious, and then they amplify all those bad feelings, secure in the certainty that it is bound to happen again. And so, it is something of a self-fulfilling phophecy.
You can see from the example that we actually practise getting into undesirable resource states, such as feeling worried, on a regular basis. Despite the fact that these states are not particularly beneficial, we evidently know well the process of state induction and there is no reason why we should not apply the same method to produce constructive resource states.
And so, what sort of emotional state would be useful in this situation? The choice is yours, but it would probably be handy to be at ease and calm. Well, you do already know what it is like to be like this. All you have to do, as previously in negative situations, is to call to mind all the occasions when you felt calm and confident and make it as authentic as you can. Remember everything about it, from how you stood, how you were breathing, how you felt, what you noticed and what you heard at the time.
Now, if you are imagining that you can’t do this because you have not felt this way previously, then picture how somebody who is calm and confident would stand, breathe and feel. Possibly this is somebody 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.
If you grow to be a master of the NLP skills of inducing favorable resource states and effectively anchoring them, then you bring so many more opportunities into your life given that you know that you can’t be thrown by any situation. Even if you are initially, you have the necessary skills to recover the situation and make sure that you act to the best of your potential.
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