Employing Your NLP Skills To Establish Great Resource States
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) supplies a complete assortment of strategies and methods for bringing about change in both your daily life and the everyday life of those you love and everyone else as well. If you exercise your NLP skills on a regular basis, then you will begin to discover that the quality of your relationships and your interactions with other people will develop significantly. What’s more, your NLP skills will help you to be ready to do things better and faster.
One of the things you will usually hear spoken about with respect to NLP skills is resource states. Let’s say you were able to wave an imaginary magic wand and feel any way you wish to feel, anytime you want. How wonderful would that be!
You understand that there are situations when we wish that we could behave in a different way. You will possibly identify with individuals who are afflicted by stage fright. Even worrying about it in advance, we can transform ourselves into quivering wrecks. Our imaginations run riot as we review all the other times when we have felt afraid, and then they ramp up all those bad feelings, secure in the knowledge that it is bound to happen again. And you know what, we are right.
You can notice from the example that we actually practise getting into damaging resource states, such as feeling nervous, on a regular basis. Despite the fact that these states are not particularly useful, we clearly know well the process of state induction and there is no reason why we should not implement the same method to produce advantageous resource states.
Given your previously demonstrated skill at resource state induction, how would you like to feel rather than stressed? You would most likely like to be comfortable and self-confident. Well, you do already know what it is like to be like this. All you have to do, as previously in negative circumstances, is to recall all the times when you felt comfortable and self-confident and make it as authentic as you can. Recall everything about it, from how you was standing, how you were breathing, how you felt, what you noticed and what you were listening to right at that moment.
In the unlikely event that you are not able to call to mind any occasions when you experienced the type of states that you are seeking to access, then you most likely know an individual who is a role model for you, who you are able to impersonate. Maybe you know them personally or they are a public figure, and you can effortlessly picture how they would tackle your situation and act as they would. See, listen and sense as they would and replicate their behavior.
When you have achieved the desired state, ramp it up to make it as vivid and appealing as possible. This is where one of your other NLP skills comes into play. This is called anchoring. In this case, an anchor is a trigger for the state change. So, when you are fully experiencing the state such as calm and confident, that you want to re-induce in the future, you could, for example, scratch the back of your neck or squeeze together the thumb and index finger of your right hand; it is your choice. In this way, the chosen action becomes part of the calm and confident state. So, when you do the trigger action again, for example, as you think about or enter the situation where you would previously have been nervous, you naturally enter the desired resource state.
You are almost certainly now beginning to see the relevance of practising the NLP skills of creating resource states and anchoring. These are NLP techniques that you can apply to all areas of your life. Of course, the beauty of mastering these skills is that the resulting states will significantly increase your communication skills and have a great impact on the other individuals that you come into contact with.
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